After missing a week or two we are back doing the marriage course again now, moving through issues such as conflict resolution and forgivene...

Little Doris has now extended her record, up to eight consecutive steps. She's going to try and beat her personal best again tomorrow!

The spreadshirt website is most entertaining. It allows you to design your own T-shirts online, they print them and you get them in the post...

Winter has arrived in Scotland. The only warm place is right by the fire.

I had a great day out in Glasgow today, although getting there through the traffic seemed to take for hours. I met the artist formerly known...

"Are you going to come quietly. or will I have to use earplugs?" -Spike Milligan

Little Doris has taken her first, albeit faltering, step. It wasn't elegant or graceful, and it didn't lead purposefully to a second...

I don't think George Bush has bought one of these yet..... http://peacenik.ekklesia.co.uk/

Another foggy and grim-looking start to the week! The only nice thing about this photo is that it's the first one I've taken with my...

Happy Birthday Boris, 7 today!

It's a generally attested fact that the rise of modern worship songs in churches has meant that Christians have ended up singing some re...

I have just discovered that I may have "Viking Ancestry"! Today my old Dad has been to hospital to have an operation to correct Du...

In the last two days, little Doris has managed a new trick; "the unaided stand"! Walking will not be far behind we suspect.

Boris, Norris, Doris and I are just back from an almost-thousand-mile drive to London and back to visit my Grandma who is very ill in hospit...

For those who are interested in such things (there are some, I know!) this picture captures the seasonal rail treatment train which stops tr...

Today, Norris has created a new word which threatens to enter the family vocabulary: "Ponckled". Apparently it means, damaged, bro...

Well, two weeks into the marriage course, things are progressing well. The course remains interesting, useful, challenging and informative. ...

This week we took Boris, Norris and Doris to the Science Museum in London . Not only is the museum brilliant, but most of it is free too! It...

The wife and I took Boris, Norris and Doris to the "Great Cockrow Railway" this week - a place where I was frequently taken (and...

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...