I have just heard the news that Mr Swann , who was my minister for eighteen years, has died in Cardiff, after a long illness. Our thoughts a...

This is posted here in honour of the person who once posted on this blog as "that hideous sister", who has brought shame and disho...

When Dr Stumpy Greenisland e-mailed me earlier this week to merrily wish me a "pox on my house" I laughed at his genial good humou...

OK - so that title got your attention! Vlad, (a regular reader, but never commenter on this blog) has sent me a really scary leaflet, which ...

Eleven of Perth's most singular characters assembled at the Nurjahan the other night for what can only be described as the least plausib...

1. To believe that the appearance of affluence is the central organising principle of life. 2. To believe that being compulsively busy even ...

While the brick-extension at the southern end of the old hillside hospital was a bit gim-looking, it seems such a shame that no use could b...

The last few moment's of Perth's old hospital, being cleared for sheltered accommodation and luxury flats. The design for the new b...

Sgurr na Ciche , high in the Rough Bounds of Knoydart looks majestic across the Sound of Sleat , from Skye's southernmost peninsula....

Moorings at Ardvasar Mallaig by Night, from Sleat

Glen Brittle, where the majestic Cuillin climb from the valley floor to grasp at the sky. Lovely Elgol , whose harbour and stony beach aff...

The answer is simply that the Otter, Seal, Fishing Industry, and Railway, were all drawn here to Mallaig because of fish, and have subsequen...

On the eve of the fateful day on which the House of Commons were cajoled into committing British troops to the disastrous invasion of Iraq ...

In the Spring, Panorama ran a documentary which demonstrated the improvement in behaviour children exhibit when their exposure to television...

Not been blogging of much late, and not simply due to post-operative discomfort and sympathy- seeking either. In fact this week I have been ...

If you need any further proof that the Internet is a scary place, read on. I have just noticed that the hits-counter on this little blog ha...

I am not asking for your sympathy, merely offering you the chance to quietly laugh at me as you see me moving cautiously, doing the John-Way...

Once, probably in the early 1990s, whem my hair was at its most, er ... voluminous, I went to the barbers to get a trim. As I walked in the ...

"The Coffee Exchange" in Dundee is well worth a vist if you are ever in that neck of the woods. They really know how to look afte...

The thanksgiving service for my uncle was held at Melbury Abbas , a quiet country parish church just outside Shaftesbury . Getting there m...

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...