The country is looking for a new Poet Laureate - someone to chart the course of the nation in verse, and to mark great state occasions with ...

The media are consistently unfair to old people. If one were to believe the usual reporting - all old people, without jobs or children to ca...

"do not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing" Heb 10:25 - a meeting house Let their be lights! "ma...

Icy hills in the background, ice slates in the foreground. Monday 26th in Perth

Looking South-westwards, 4pm this afternoon

The above is from this week's Private Eye , the following was sent to me on e-mail

For those of you who were disgusted by what Waterstones laughingly called their "sale", which in practice seemed to involve displa...

The tower of St John's Kirk in Perth just visible through the falling snow. Taken at midday yesterday during an intense, but incredibly...

Here's a few quotes I tried to use to stimulate our discussion of Genesis 1 in our house-group tonight. The first three paragraphs have...

I can see a 'gloom' theme emerging here!

Who ate all the pies? (well, pizzas anyway). Good friends, old friends, crazy children, precious times.

Not me, Scotland at this time of year, short days, long evenings. It was too dark to play football by 4pm.

Extolling the wonders of beer invokes two stereotypes. The first is of those whose love of the substance is primarily related to quantity , ...

Lendrick Muir, SU-Scotland activity centre, for the weekend youth camp reunion. Rain, fun, food, mud, God, prayer, music, games, friends, lu...