The Mrs and I finally started the Marriage Course last night. The introductory session was more searching, and thought-provoking than I had ...

Today's hero is Will Chase, the founder and owner of Tyrells Potato Chips! He discovered that Tesco was stocking his products via a who...

So the Pope has caused a stink by quoting a medieval source who linked Islam with violence, a view which he has subsequently said he does no...

You’d assume that if the customer, the builders merchant, and the builder all spoke English communication would be straightforward. Not the ...

As I walked up to the usual place to take my Monday photo, there was a pleasant chill in the air, the first hints of Winter. Thathideousman ...

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort. 1 Corinthians 2:3 Today we pr...

"how shall we escape if we ignore such a great salvation? " Hebrews 2:3 I had the privilege of speaking yesterday at the Open Door...

"Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad ." -Peter Kay

Victor Meldrew and I enjoyed another stupendous day in the hills yesterday, climbing Carn Dearg and Sgor Gaibhre out on Rannoch Moor. The we...

Before you panic, phone my Mum or refer me for rehab, please note the following. The above picture, taken here this morning, does not indica...

Young Norris' is back from surgery, having had grommetts inserted into both ears and all the "glue" that prevented him from he...

We won't know until tomorrow if Norris will be having surgery or not. So we'll go the hospital and find out, chat to the consultant ...

The wife has a new mug. Nice!

Young Boris has become intrigued by "The Hobbit". Every evening, before bed, I read him a chapter of J.R.R. Tolkein's classic...

That Hideous Man's little sister bravely fought her way out of the smog and grime of the great city that is London, for a few days of th...

Now the doctors seem to have changed their minds. They might be postponing Norris' operation after all, with a hearing review in a month...

Number two son, aka Norris, was checked out in hospital yesterday prior to his operation next week. The report was a mixed picture; although...

Having just clocked up our first decade of marriage, the church wants us to host a 'marriage course' in our home! The Marriage Cours...

The UK is a country which, although involved in the arms trade, does so within strictly controlled limits which prevent anything we make, li...

Thanks Dad!

There is more persecution of Christians, both in scale and severity, than ever before. Wherever Christians are a minority and present a alte...

Smoke in the hills this morning.

This book is a very moving, profoundly disturbing and brilliantly written story. Bao Ninh's story is billed as the first Vietnam War nov...

Over in N. Ireland last week we were introduced to the joys of Sea Kayaking by the family. It appears to have gained the status of being the...

At Broughty Ferry near Dundee, yesterday the wife started pointing at the water in a most excitable manner. Her attention had been caught by...

That Hideous Man and his Mrs Hideous, are celebrating ten hideous years of marriage!

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...