The “Living Camera”

Alias Stephen Wiltshire Remarkable.

Michty Me! Whit a Waste o’ Siller!

And indeed jings, crivvens and so help ma boab So the 2011 census is to include a question on whether you speak ‘Scots’. As a helpful guide to help you decide, the Scottish government has set up a website or should that be wabsicht?. And here was me thinking that any adult of reasonable intelligence [...]

How Posh is Edinburgh?

Remember that old Billy Connolly routine from the 70′s? “I was a red sandstone boy. We were so posh that we took the rubbish out to the midden in a briefcase. And we didn’t call it the midden – we called it the midding! Mother, are you in the kitching? I’m just going down to [...]

In a League of Their Own Making

Ah well, the Sons great run came to an end yesterday with a narrow defeat at Forfar. Keeping on a fitba’ theme for now and in further reference to my posting below about the SPL proposals for league amalgamation and reconstruction, I’d like to direct you to the sonstrust website and the posting there ‘Make [...]

The AA Route for Sons?

Until a couple of months ago Dumbarton FC were having a horrendous season. Then there was a change of management. Jim Chapman who had led the Sons to their 2009 Third Division championship had struggled badly with results this season. It happens. It happens because football is a microcosm of life. Confidence is needed to [...]

Marriage of Connivance?

I’m talking about the plan for the SPL and the Scottish League to merge. Now correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t the Ess Pee Ell clubs dissolve their 108 year association with the other clubs by throwing them out in the street in 1998? The wife beater throwing out the desperate vulnerable partner with [...]

Gaddafi Latest

“These protesters are on hallucinogenic drugs!”

My New Business Idea!

A brand new product! Bullshit Repellent! It’ll make me a million!!

Nature Study

My work colleague Joe has been nipping out at lunchtime to get photos of waxwings which are feasting on the rowan and other berries on trees near the shop. At this time of year the Scandanavian birds are a common site in Scotland as they search for food, often in flocks of 50 or more. [...]

700,000

The WordPress hit counter in the right hand column here will click over the 700,000 mark sometime today (hits since January 2008). Of course the majority of these hits are simply search engine referrals which coincide with my categories and tags. However average this month of home page hits is 177 per day and I’m [...]