“Shut up or get out.”

Today I am busy moving quarters and making preparations for my mini trip to Inverness, I’m sure I will find something there to write home to mummy about. I said in an earlier blog I wrote that it is said that Nicola Sturgeon fired the pistol, for the start of the independence campaign – for

Welcome to Brexit Britain

The British media, including the BBC and Sky News, are trying to paint this as: “It’s those bad French Frogs again, did not turn up for work” DOVER TRAFFIC – LIVE: TRUSS URGES FRANCE TO ACT OVER ‘ENTIRELY AVOIDABLE’ PORT GRIDLOCK The boss of Dover Harbour was on Sky News, telling us that they knew

Plan ‘B’

Only one week into what could be two months of workmen in the building and already we are driven mad with the noise, I know it can’t be helped and I’m sure the builders are doing their best to keep the noise to a minimum, but those hammer drills vibrate throughout the building and hammering

Is this the end of the road for Scottish independence?

I believe that over the past 8 years under Nicola Sturgeon’s leadership of the SNP and First Minister of Scotland, the Scottish Independent debate has been confined to the doldrums. Despite, mandate after mandate Despite, Scotland, being dragged out of Europe against the will of the Scottish people Despite, all the powers that should have

How short, these long summer days

The morning laundry over, I wheeled my bike out through the common area where the planning department (female residents) were in noisy conversation – they, almost in unison, questioned my sanity about venturing out on a bicycle today. The little back road down passed the Golf Club Hotel was still closed to traffic, something to

Today is a good day

Light rain as I set off on my short daily ride, I can not hope to explain in words how the action of cycling is for me, for it is as natural and necessary as breathing in and out. It is hard to explain the Zen-like quality that comes through the constant rhythmic turning of

I’m not often right!

I never thought the war in Ukraine would happen, I was naive in thinking that wise heads would come together and a treaty would be signed between Ukraine and Russia (brokered by the European Union), that Ukraine would remain neutral and never join NATO (even if it did at some point join the EU) agreeing

Dream Potatoes

After many visits to France over the years, it had been my intention to take my boat into the canal system of France and try to find a small piece of land to berth it the boat would then become my live-on-board home. The land would be turned into a small allotment, and the surpluses

“Why are we always playing catch up?”

By the start of the 19th century, Edinburgh was already disparagingly referred to as Auld Reekie, from the Old Norse word reykr meaning smoke or steam (from where the Icelandic capital, Reykjavik, also gets its name). In 1805, Edinburgh’s newly-fledged Police Commissioners has responsibilities for controlling chimney fires in the city. But they were also

Stranger and Stranger

There is a lot of information coming together at this time that is disturbing for me. This morning I was reading how one writer believes our parliament in Scotland is working, not unlike that in Stalin’s Russia, and he sets out very clearly why. I received an e-mail today from Paul Lewis, Head of Investigations