Adullamite

Periodically I get a bit homesick for Edinburgh.  Unlike when I lived there and was sick of home, but I was a wee bit younger then.  ...

That bright young lass RDG made her best ever post the other day.  You can find it here - RDG  A short post maybe, but to the point! ...

Nothing to say.  I kind of forgot to eat again and my brain is a bit dull.  I will eat something tonight, if I get time, but I have bee...

The Olympics are still dragging on!  BBC TV is full of it.  The press cannot get enough of it.  Real news is pushed aside for peo...

As I emerged from my late morning nap I espied this gent scribbling a ticket for the folks in the car here.  I am wondering what went...

Buy this book from Amazon I was awoken, just before lunchtime,  by the postman kicking the door in an effort to indicate his pr...

Syria, a land mostly ignored and up till now stable under its Assad dictatorship. Suddenly it is rent in two by rebels, why? The Ass...

Friends, how nice to have them.  Two, and I have at least one more, arrived on a visit today, the first time we have met face to f...

Nothing to say, so here is an old cartoon.  That looks like my granddad reading the paper!   .

Typical UK summer.  The sun shines brightly, the sky is blue, and a chilly wind blows the big gray clouds in front of the sun and con...

I was tempted to write, 'I saw this and thought of you,' but several young ladies are looking in so I will avoid that.  This ...

On September 25th 1915, with the Great War in full flow, James Keir Hardie passed away. His life had been dedicated to improving the lot ...

So I turn on the opening ceremony and am confronted with an overenthusiastic songster, standing on a false hill, surrounded by people...

The old town lock-up.  In times past rogues, and often late night drunks, were deposited inside one of the two small cells.  As the ...

Mons Meg High up on the ramparts of Edinburgh Castle stands the colossal 'Supergun' known as 'Mons Meg!'  This mon...

The long awaited announcement concerning those to be prosecuted for 'phone hacking' came today.  Former editors of the Murd...

Unbelievable!  The sun shone hot all day, and the wind was merely a cooling aid for us all instead of the usual tempest.  How jolly it...

Once again I can post a pic.  Thanks to 'A,' the wise young lass.  Still not sure how to work those albums mind but I did find...

One misery grumbled in a manner I never myself go in for, that there had been no pictures of park benches for a while.  Needless to...

Nothing but a bland picture to end the day.  When I got out it either stopped raining or was threatening to rain, and in between it ...