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No, like you I did not bother listening to Jeremy Hunt offering a lying budget.  They are always lies, and tomorrow the clever people will h...

  Another day of tech war! There was a council bill that arrived last night.  I think this had been put into next door by the idiot postman,...

The first day of the Battle of the Somme is a day that has gone down into UK military history.  On that day the attacking force lost around ...

Today, March 1st, is the first day of meteorological Spring!  Naturally, the rain is teeming down.   Spring is my favourite time of year.  D...

I have nothing to say, but people say that does not normally stop you saying it! This I fail to comprehend. Trying to think of something to ...

One of my beautiful and highly intelligent nieces posted on facebook a wee while ago something about life always being one thing or another....

I was loitering without intent around lunchtime today when the Amazon driver appeared.  This is a good guy, he often calls, rarely for me, a...

Daffodil season is upon us once again.  In the gloom caused by ongoing rainstorms we see the council daffs beginning to emerge and brighten ...

I have been fantasying of buying a car.  Considering I have no money this will remain a fantasy for some time.  However, I could do with one...

  This is Fishing boats off Leith, possibly 'Zulu's.'   My love of technology increases daily.  The 'Dell' is now hesita...

It was the usual half asleep start this morning.  Breakfast, coffee, weaker than usual as Sainsburys do not appear to be stocking the Costa ...

706 AD  Byzantine emperor Justinian II has his predecessors Leontios and Tiberios III publicly executed in the Hippodrome of Constantinople....

  Azhar Ali, the prospective Labour candidate for the Rochdale by-election, has been 'disowned' by the Labour Party.  This comes aft...

There can be no doubt that there is a coup underway.  The question is who is behind it?  Is it Putin, or some group of US Billionaires?  Not...

There are 'wars and rumours of wars, famine and earthquakes in various places,' volcanoes' in Iceland, the country not the shop....

Another day, another attempt at healthy eating falls flat. Having lost half a stone through the non eating of last week, I am attempting to ...

I survived this mornings fight with the Sainsburys self-service machine, only twice having to ask the young lady to fix it for me.  The man ...

  I refrained from going out this morning, instead I listened to Alistair Begg on Samuel.  I was listening to the third of his sermons o...

Another month has raced by, I did not really notice it as it passed by so quickly. Another day spent trawling other people's findings on...

Having been touring Ancestry myself recently I found it interesting that Michael Palin, famous from all his many TV appearances, would have ...