SCOTLAND SUNDAY PHOTOS – 2 – BURNS COUNTRY

The second in the series of photos I have taken around Scotland. Since it was Burns night this week I thought it might be nice to show a few of the places around where he lived. If you click on the photos they become larger… This first photo was his cottage in Alloway… This is [...]

DAMMIT

I won’t be able to go to this but it looks like it might be a lot of fun… The 10:23 Challenge 2011 The 10:23 Challenge is a follow-up to the ‘overdose’ protest staged by the 10:23 Campaign in 2010. International protesters from more than 10 countries, and more than 23 cities will gather for [...]

IT’S WILLIAM MacGILLIVRAY’S BIRTHDAY TOO

Whilst there are people all around the world celebrating Burns Night, it is worth mentioning that today is the birthday of another Scot of note. William MacGillivray was the illegitimate son of a soldier. He was brought up by his uncle in Harris and said “the solitude of Nature was my school”. He was enrolled [...]

WE JUST DON’T GET IT DO WE?

I have recently commissioned some research…

SCOTLAND SUNDAY PHOTOS – 1 The Isle of Bute

I thought a nice little easy series for Sunday would be to put some of the nicer photos I (or my friends and family have taken) around and about on here. Some of them are really nice and it seems a shame not to put them on the web. Why not start with the Isle [...]

RUN INTO THE BOX AND FALL OVER

Bit of modern football for you…

MAKAR WHAT YOU WILL OF IT

In honour of Liz Lochhead receiving the new post of The Scots Makar (poet laureate of Scotland) I thought I would turn my hand to a bit of poetry. It is of course a joke. It is also an update of an update of an original. The original is this link. The first update by [...]

LINKED-UP GOVERNMENT

With one bold policy the government is hoping to reduce carbon emissions and increase employment prospects for young people. Soon the government plans to reintroduce link boys to the city of London, with plans to extend the scheme to other parts of the country if a closed-doors study (conducted in London) reveals that anywhere else [...]

THE GREEN BRIGADE

Here is the article I had published over at Bella Caledonia a little while ago which I never got round to sticking on here. “The Scottish Cup Final of 1988 was marred when Margaret Thatcher made an inflammatory gesture….she turned up”. – Only An Excuse “Maggie Maggie Get tae ****” – Hampden 1988 “The opinion [...]

THE 2012 BULLSHIT

Been tweeting about this a bit today but want to expand on it a bit here as well. I have just listened to a lecture about the 2012 non-event by a guy who spends a lot of time trying to debunk the nonsense that is published. It is the third one down if you go [...]