These are "the garages" - the place where as a child I played for hours and hours, days and weeks. During the winter, this uninspi...

People who have had the privilege of living in a beautiful place all their lives sometimes seem to take it all for granted and simply fail t...

I have just finished reading this book - which has been on the go for quite some time now. It is a fascinating and provocative look at the ...

Boris (7): "Dad will you come out and play cricket with me?" Mum: "No, Daddy's coming here to spend...

"Don't mention the coffee. I mentioned it once, - but I think I got away with it"

Fairtrade Gourmet-blend espresso, from The Bean Shop in Perth!

"The Last Resort" on the shores of the "Great Septic Sea". It looks lovely at night, with the camera doing a long exposu...

The Corsican mountains are just stunning. Crazy hairpin bending roads cling to them in all kinds of unlikely routes which traverse great co...

I have posted another photo of this particular tree up on here previously (only to be asked if it was to be entitled 'self portrait'...

Corsica is home to many magnificent rivers which flow out of the high mountains in the centre of the island, and which are popular destinati...

Young Boris gave his old father a lesson in snorkling . He was a natural at swimming up and down admiring all the fish. I was a bit less su...

This book is a little gem, a fascinating study and insight into how we should handle the four gospels and how we have so often gone wrong in...

I had heard that this was a pretty weird book, and so when I saw a copy in el - cheapo's remainder bookstore in the town, I grabbed a c...

"Where have we any command in the Bible laid down in stronger terms or in a more peremptory urgent manner; than the command of giving t...

Uncle Brian. R.I.P. - A Genuinely Lovely Man -

Glenfinnan Viaduct from Sgurr nan Coireachan's lower slopes Victor Meldrew and I had a brilliant day in the hills yesterday - drivin...

Now I'm not saying that they look good. I'm not saying that they suit me. I'm not saying that it isn't a bit grim for the on...

A couple of shots of Pitigiliano, where after a long search we found a great pizza restaurant, the sister-in-law was feeling really ill. On ...

The holiday house we had near Orvieto was adequate, but the area was lovely. The sister-in-law, Simon and their kids were there, which was g...

We enjoyed a stiffling hot week with Simon and family near Orvieto, a beautiful medieval hilltop town, famous for it's scenery, steep an...

One of the unexpected benefits of blogging is that it has turned into a place where I can dump information - which if left on bits of paper ...

On Friday my wife had worked a gruelling fifteen hour day, including a meeting at lunchtime. In case you are wondering, she is technically ...

There presumably must be a hidden clause deep within the smallprint of the 'Single European Act' that stipulates that every country...

This is the third of Jostein Gaarder's books which I have read, following the brilliant 'Sophie's World' and the very movi...

This is a worrying book. It claims to be the first expose of radical Islam in Britain , by an insider who subsequently became disillusioned ...

The reviewer who described this book as "refreshingly bonkers" was spot on! It is a most odd book - although it has to be said r...