Today, Boris, Norris, Doris and I had a great day out on the Strathspey Railway . With bright sunshine, fantastic views of the Cairngorms, a...

Bodger Derek is like the wind. We cannot see Bodger Derek, but we can see the effects of Bodger Derek everywhere we look, hence we know of h...

While Boris and Norris' mischevious monkeyesque behaviour has been well documented here over the last few months - today little Doris ha...

I'd never realised how noisy a hot-air balloon is, until this thing fired it burners repeatedly outside my house - very early on Sunday ...

Thathideousfamily have once again been on our summer holidays. This year however, we stayed in the UK and avoided the delights of budget air...

We've had a great holiday! I think the pictures speak for themselves.

My vote for a 'best coffee shop' award would undoubtedly go to Perth's "Bean Good". I have never tasted such well prod...

I have just finished reading Don Carson's contraversial book, "Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church: Understanding a Moveme...

There should be more hillwalking books like this! I have, over several years, picked up quite a few books on walking, from Poucher, Butterfi...

Boris, Norris and Doris have all completed their first Munro, Beinn na Lap on Rannoch Moor. On a day which started in sunshine, but became i...

What follows is a verbatim record of a conversation between myself (ME), the wife (W), and young Boris (B) aged 6. ME: Hello wife - I didn...

For ages I have been trying to make espresso's as well as they do in a cafe in Perth called, "Bean Good". I have a good machin...

Well this book proved to be a bit of a dissapointment really. His book on the French Revolution is astute, funny, and unashamedly biased hi...

North! The A9 is a road which never fails to fill me with excited anticipation. Once past Perth, the hills seem to grow higher and steeper w...

I've just read "The Orange Girl" by Jostein Gaarder, or as the cover of the book says "by the author of Sophie's Wor...

It may come as a shock to you to know that 'thathideousman' has just undergone some gruelling cosmetic surgery. It has certainly com...

N.T.Wright , writes: For seven years I was College Chaplain at Worcester College, Oxford. Each year I used to see the first year undergradua...

If you are unfortunate enough to know anyone who takes Dan Brown remotely seriously, this little book may be the antidote! This book actual...

The title of this post in no way suggests that I am endorsing naturism, or that I joined in last weeks infamous nude cyclcling protest. Inde...

The whole world is allegedly going football-crazy, football-mad. I'm really trying to join in as well, trying to enter into the spirit o...

There are some hill-days which stick out from all the others as truly memorable. Stob Binnien, my first Munro, the curved ridge on the Buach...

We took Boris, Norris and Doris on a family walk today - up Fife's finest hill; West Lomond. Its a good few hours walk, hard work for ...

Brian [McLaren] makes such a good point about the importance of the subjective encounter with God that he tends, I think, to minimize the im...

One of the best things about having a term off college is having the time to read some of the books I have wanted to read for ages but which...

Our church has got a new website (at last!). Out goes www.perthbaptist.org.uk and in comes www.perthbaptistchurch.org.uk - much better I h...

It is an old cliche that geniuses are tortured eccentrics. In her book "Spike Milligan: An Intimate Memoir" his long-time manager ...

Young Norris was visited in Nursery by the hearing specialist yesterday, who made some very interesting observations. Firstly the nursery it...

Little Doris has started crawling. No longer can I leave her in one place with a few toys, safe in the knowledge that she will remain safely...

I spotted a reference to this book and followed it up thinking that it sounded entertaining. I wasn't dissapointed. The novel charts the...

Norris, Doris and myself have spent a happy afternoon watching a seal fishing in the Tay in the centre of Perth. The river was teeming with ...

Young Norris (3) has been seen at the hospital today, had various tests and proddings and pokings. He has been put on the waiting list for t...

Really Nothing To Say One of the more honest blogs I've read

I I am both ashamed and proud to announce that I have been awarded the red face of the week award. The wife and I were in a bit of hurry get...

So my little daughter has graduated from being a 'baby' and is now officially enjoying her first day as a 'little-girl'. Con...

Little Doris is 1 Today. Not crawling, never mind walking. Just smiling!

"This is when people get to see if I really believe all I've been preaching about all these years". The late Nigel Lee, the re...

2 Praise the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits 3 who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases In Psalm 103, David c...

Today Gordon Brown has defended John Prescott, under pressure because the press have reported that he has been unfaithful to his wife - cond...

R. H. Strachan commented, on the act of Jesus washing the disciples' feet in John 13:1-4. "...the great truth that this divine self...

I'm 2 chapters into this little book at the moment. I have had a couple of modules from the author at college, and as he is always so...

As someone involved in Bible teaching in the church, I resolve to do the following: Preach free grace until they accuse me of antinomianism ...

We've just arrived home from an Eight-hundred mile round trip to my brother-in-law's wedding, which was held at the remarkable Treow...

Today Boris has invented a new word, "mopelo". Where we live, transatlantic flights pass thousands of feet above us, leaving white...

Time spent at home with Boris, Noris and Doris is usually a fairly entertaining experience. Today however, I am trapped here as two of my th...

I'm currently reading "A Bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Modern World" by Rana Mitter. My contacts with the ...

I spoke at church yesterday on the hypocrisy of the Palm Sunday crowd in Jerusalem, who proclaimed Jesus as Messiah on Sunday, but within a ...

Thanks to the loan of a camera from young Boris..

I Hate Soaps, by which I mean the nightly televisual feast upon which the nation gorges, not the bodily cleansing stuff, with which I am mor...