Adullamite

  This is one of my highly intelligent, beautiful, and clever great nieces.  This one obtained her parchments in Archaeology, and has beg...

Being a Bank Holiday, one I did not realise was in the air until late last night, the weather has arrived as normal.  Bright clouds in the m...

No doubt you have already read this book.  I read it years ago when the somewhat academic style exercised what is laughingly called my brain...

Sunny Sunak visited his Scottish colony the other day.  He was attending the Scottish Conservative get together.  However, it appears he was...

I am Mr Lucky!  There can be no other person as lucky as I.   Just last night, as I tidied up in the kitchen, I lifted my cafetierie thingy ...

I began this post days ago.  Life however, as you know can be tiring, and sloth can creep in unexpectedly in this abode.  So, having nothing...

Somewhat reluctantly I downed a rather too strong coffee and limped off to the Kirk.  Several things made me hesitant, the threatening rain ...

I sit here listening to the rumble of the rush hour traffic.  It is Friday, the industrial estates came out ages ago, Sainsburys has drawn t...

I finally finished the family History printing and sorting.  This was to take a bit longer than intended, as my great niece had manged to in...

In an effort to lose weight I decided to make a start today.  I had a haircut!  Early today I limped round to the Market Square and entered ...

A short service today, followed by an AGM.  Add in the end of the holiday weeks, a touch of sickness and pre-arranged dates, few people were...

My night out on Monday was a delightful one.  SPAM was a small meeting, the holidays meaning many are far off and only the 'leftovers...

Blue sky above, freezing wind below, yet the birds are chasing one another about the branches, and the buds are beginning to bloom.  By the ...

Royal Mail again! The privatised mess that is Royal Mail continues to exasperate the public.  The need to feed the shareholders, paid £400 m...

Rain, teeming rain!  No real surprise, this is an Easter Bank Holiday Monday, the day people race of to the seaside for a day out.  Naturall...

  The Empty Tomb John. 20:1.  Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the ...

How quiet the morning appears when a holiday is on.  The rat race in the evening was very slow last night, and not because of the crowds.  J...

If my memory serves me right, and it sometimes does, 'Good Friday' was always a holiday, and a day when most things closed down, at ...