The Bill

Following on from my Jimmy Reid posting, I spotted the following quote from Bill Shankly at Adullamite’s blog “The socialism I believe in is not really politics. It is a way of living. It is humanity. I believe the only way to live and to be truly successful is by collective effort, with everyone working [...]

Team Grumpy

When did ‘teams’ pervade everything from sales and marketing to customer service to people who like a particular band/film/ artist? When did that happen? You used to read a blurb for something and there would be a phone number or an address with an exhortation to “contact our representative”. Not now; it’s “Contact our sales [...]

Forty Years Ago

There can hardly be anyone in Scotland of my generation who doesn’t know who spoke these words on this day in 1971: “We are not going to strike. We are not even having a sit in strike. Nobody and nothing will come in and nothing will go out without our permission. And there will be [...]

To Get Ahead…….

Wear a hat! To be fair to William Hague who was talking on Wednesday about people making great mistakes, I thought I’d publish a couple of pics to show the other side of the at ease urbane politician about town. Poor old Willie. No sooner than he had taken the decision to recognise the Libyan [...]

William Hague – Master of Irony

Willie wasn’t being vague again yesterday. The Scottish government had “made a great mistake” in releasing the “Lockerbie Bomber” Abdelbasset Ali Al Megrahi he said. Yes you read it right. William Hague was criticising another government in relation to Libya. So there you have it folks, releasing one terminally ill man on compassionate grounds is [...]

And Finally from Berwick

At least for the moment. This is Berwick Parish Church built on the site of the medieval Church of the Holy Trinity in the mid 1600s. It was the only church to be built during Cromwell’s commonwealth and is noted for its distinctive Presbyterian style. It is the most northerly church of the established Church [...]

Berwick and Lowry Revisited

Not in a physical sense but I took a photo of the harbour when I was there: I took it on the same morning I took the pictures of Spittal and the old property in Tweedmouth so this photo was taken from that side of the bay. Here was how Lowry depicted it in 1959 [...]

Confusion from The Hague

What planet is Willie Hague on? He and his French counterpart Alain Juppe now have a vision of Colonel Gaddafi going into a quiet retirement in the Libyan countryside amidst a wee olive grove and the ‘rebels’ assuming power. Like THAT’s going to happen! Having completely failed to bomb Gaddafi out of power, they’re now [...]

Texts and Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll

It was only a matter of time after Amy Winehouse died before the texts,jokes and emails started. A ‘joke’ text buzzed on my phone about an hour after the news was announced and there have been several since. And it’s not just the jokes either. I have read several emails and comments built on the [...]

Window Dressing.

Click here to see a rather nice flat in a former church for sale in Scarborough. Here are some photos: And then there’s Thanks Russell.