Adullamite

It won't be many weeks from now that Scotland, at around midnight, will begin the first game in this year's World Cup.  As always wi...

I find it intriguing that these out of date pitta breads are informing me that they contain 'Protein and Fibre.'  It's almost as...

This is not a book for the squeamish. Apart from the details of various operations there are several photographs of men wounded in action, t...

  A day of Twitter squabbling.   The fall-out from Murrell's conviction continues.  The Crown Office. The people who were wrong to bring...

The unusual happening, a hot sunny day on a Bank Holiday, is clearly a result of global warming. According to my thermometer it is around 86...

  The past few weeks have been fraught with the underlying virus that will not leave.  So, having read the wise words of Docteur Maury , a...

Scottish refereeing decisions are often difficult to comprehend.  Some have little effect on a game, and all referees and linesmen will make...

A long time ago a wise man commented on politicians books.  He claimed they all ran the same way.  That is, if the Prime Minister did the co...

It was not unexpected that the Heart of Midlothian's final game in Glasgow would be overshadowed by controversy.  It was bad enough the ...

I read through this book some years ago, and decided to read it again, because I had forgotten most of it!  Books containing the words of th...

 

I began another day of joy and constant happiness by rising today, conscious that I must vote, and thereby change the world.  I pushed my wa...

Being a Bank Holiday Monday I expected life to be quiet, and so it has been.  So quiet that I went downstairs against my bodies wishes, and ...

I discovered a fault on my Great War website the other day.  I needed to look up a name, and he was not found.  This surprised me somewhat. ...

The common answer to the question, 'Who started the Great War?' is usually 'Germany.'  Those in Germany may well say 'Fr...

I am working my way through the books on the table, slowly.  There are three I am reading, one or two I dip into now and again, and others w...

I had a phone call today from an old friend, I don't have any young ones.  She moved away about 1980 and married well to produce a famil...