Apparently our old plaster was too crumbly and uneven to tile onto, so various bits of it have been replaced with nice new, dukkerboard . It...

Here is a photo of a dead freezer. We knew it was playing up and wasn't keeping things as cold as it once did - and had tried to eat eve...

Anyone with a slightly sad, geekish appreciation of history might appreciate the following website, http://www.spatial-literacy.org/ . Th...

The sunset last night was particularly lovely, and after a long break I got my little camera out and took a few photos of it. As usual, the...

Little Doris (who will be 2 in May) has at last started to utter intelligible words. Her reluctance to walk until she was a year and a half ...

Lord and Lady Lucan joined us for dinner on friday night and we went out to what must be Perthshire's smallest restaurant. I'd never...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/pip/ruqlt/ The BBC has broadcast a deeply revealing documentary on Radio 4 called "Iraq Online...

Walking today through Perth, I passed a group of lawyers happily posing outside their office for a firm photo, presumably for a brochure or ...

This week I have been grumpy and uncommunicative (and not blogging either). This has been due to a resurgence of my long-standing sinus pr...

Boris (aged 7) shared his insights with us yesterday. As previously blogged I have been feeling especially groggy this week, and was resting...

My little sister, who Boris, Norris and Doris know as their mad aunt, "Potts" gave the wife and I a brilliant present, which she...

The wife and I went to London at the end of last week to attend the Marriage Conference. Having recently completed The Marriage Course and ...

Boris, Noris and I went riding trains today - in order to see more of them (very sad, I know). We went to the SECC in Glasgow for the day ...

On Friday night our church played host to "An Evening with Paul Jones and Fiona Hendley " which I went to but the wife was stuck a...

I was contemplating taking Boris and Norris to the Scottish Model Railway Exhibition at the SECC, until I read this! (click here) This ...

This evening my life was saved (or I was spared serious injury at least) by a brand-new Dyson, bagless, allergy protecting vacuum cleaner. T...

In the unlikely event that this blog were to acquire corporate sponsorship, I'd have to give long and serious consideration to the kind...

We took Boris, Norris and Doris up to Deeside at the weekend to show them one of our favourite places, Loch Muick . It's a delightful ...

The wife persuaded me to accompany her to the (dreaded) cinema on Friday evening to the inevitable (and equally dreaded) rom -com. I have s...

I am this morning both very old and very pleased. Very old because this morning I attained my 36th year; very pleased because of a rather sp...

I am sorry to have to report that one of our little pet goldfish has quietly passed away and has, with all due ceremony, descended the U-Ben...

My delightful sons, "Boris" (7) and "Norris" (4) have just had a discussion about me, within my earshot. The latter thin...

There is a fine line between being 'sensible' with money and just being an old miser. I like to think that I have well and truly cro...

Boris and I have enjoyed an excellent half-day in the hills today, wandering up to the lovely Loch Ordie and then walking up Deuchary Hill...

Over the last few weeks there has been one passage in the Bible which has been dominating my thoughts. I have been reading it frequently, an...

I am now officially "overweight" as confirmed by the medical profession, with a bmi (blubbery midrift index) several notches highe...

Now this should be fun. I saw Gary Moore and his band several times when I was a teenager in London - but haven't been to one of his gi...

Oxford University Press have regular sales with many of their books flogged at 75% off. Since being pointed in their direction a few years a...

What do you do when, despite the fact that you have lived in Scotland all your adult life and have produced children who are self-consciousl...

Some idiot (ie. me) decided that it would be splendid idea to have an externally vented extractor fan in the kitchen. The cooker is on an ex...

It's about time I got into some of my Christmas presents. This one, for example, has been sitting waiting to be opened for far too lon...

I am frankly appalled at the things which amuse me. Thanks to Potts for the clip and doonhamergeordie for instructions on embedding it!

So near yet so far. The snow is still hanging beautifully on the surrounding hills, but its attempts to 'paint the town white' as it...

I've just finished reading this collection of essays and short history of the so-called "Toronto" phenomena , the wave of ex...

Young Norris (aged 4) has enjoyed visits to two hospitals today, one planned, one unplanned! First of this morning we took him to Ninewells ...

Today has been... "eventful". We had a plumber doing a really small job in the kitchen, simply dropping some pipe runs a few inche...

Four-year-old Norris had the bright idea of constructing an indoor waterfall yesterday. A delightful (and truly realistsic) interior water f...

It happens every year, in the middle of dark winter days, unable to get to the hills, someone buys me a mountain book for Christmas. It'...

The New Year has brought with it the first sight of snow we've had since last Easter. The hills above the town are now suitably white, a...

Calm has returned to the house after a somewhat frenetic few weeks. In the last month, both sets of parents/in-laws have stayed, friends fro...

on a cold and frosty morning...........

College holidays are a great time for getting into reading all the books, not on the reading list, which I have been wanting to get into all...

I have a new toy to play with, a nice little web cam! It matches one we have given to my mum for her birthday so that she can chat to all he...