Slimeball

Your challenge is to decide if the above epithet applies to Andrew Neil,  Hazel Blears or perhaps both of them. Or maybe the slimeball is the one who passed the tape of Blears to the BBC? In this vid, oor Andrew torpedoes Diane Abbot’s Labour leadership bid before it gets out of the blocks. Nothing [...]

The Highland Boundary Fault

I had meant to mention that Richie’s and my canoe trip on Sunday started off in the lowlands of Scotland, then progressed to the highlands before we returned to the lowlands once again. The Highland Boundary Fault is a geological fault that traverses Scotland from Arran and Helensburgh on the west coast to Stonehaven in [...]

The Joy of Plant

Band of Joy is the new album by Robert Plant. I’m really liking this track which is also the single.

Separated at Birth?

Inchmurrin

Yesterday Richie and I took to the waters of Loch Lomond in the two man canoe once again. Having scraped the ice off my pick up truck, we decided to go to a different put in point than our normal one at Aldochlay near Luss. And so it was we set off from Duck Bay [...]

The Sheridans

Big Brother is of course no more but one of its celebrity participants Tommy Sheridan and his wife Gail are next week set to be involved in a surreality media show as they defend the perjury case arising from Tommy’s successful libel action against the News of the World. I hear that the legal fraternity [...]

Skill

Dick Gaughan

The Workers Song, from a 1983 documentary. Yeh, this one’s for the workers who toil night and day By hand and by brain to earn your pay Who for centuries long past for no more than your bread Have bled for your countries and counted your dead In the factories and mills, in the shipyards [...]

Today’s Anagrams

Mad Invalid Bid And Lib Dem I

This is a Party Political Broadcast on Behalf of the Labour Party

According to the bookies anyhoo

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