Boris (aged9): "eeeerrrrRRR, don't pick your nose and chew it" Norris (aged 6): "but Mum's always telling me to ...

Amidst the political fun of the unfolding expenses scandal at Westminster, in which freedom of information has given us the right to peer in...

I've had a few converations with people recently about CAP: "Christians Against Poverty" . Some asked where they could find mo...

Glas Tulaichean literally means, "grey-green hillocks", I am reliably informed. Two Saturday's ago, it should perhaps have bee...

The shore road incinerator plan seems to be progressing through the mysteries of the Perth & Kinross Council planning process. It threat...

This morning I was the unfortunate recipient of a European Election leaflet from the rather scary BNP. It contained some ludicrous statement...

A foul-mouthed, revolutionary socialist with no sympathy for Christianity, might not be the most obvious candidate for a place on my b...

N.T. (Tom) Wright, has written a book with the (ambitious) aim of correcting what he sees as an error in all streams of the 'wes...

Last night we got to the end of another Marriage Course in Perth. Once again we ran a 'micro-course' in our house (rather than a l...

In an almost 'narnian' feat of time-elapse, little Doris has turned four; the intervening years since the above photo was taken, sli...

This one seems to be doing the rounds on e-mail.... no idea where it comes from!

Buachaille Etive Beag - South Ridge It's been almost a decade since Mrs Hideous & I have been out hillwalking together, on our own....

Two articles have caught my eye recently, relating to Christian faith. What has surprised me about both of them has been the unlikely combin...

From the Larne - Troon Ferry

The grand finale of the weekend away that Boris and I had was a gig at Salford's futuristic looking Lowry Centre. Boris and I are both ...

The Imperial War Museum North is housed within an amazing building in Salford Quays, Manchester. Boris and I spent a fascinating hour or so ...

Young 'Boris' and I are just back from our long-looked-forward-to weekend away together. We packed our stuff, he packed lots of CDs ...

The Lowry Centre, Salford Quays (of which more another time)

I am the happy recipient of this present- maybe the best T-shirt, in the world!

I haven't enjoyed a film as much as Wolfgang Becker's "Goodbye Lenin!" for a very long time. The story itself hangs around...

Boris and Norris are in a little bit of trouble this evening!

I have read many books about ‘the church’, from weighty academic tomes to popular critiques; from apologetics for conservative theology an...

The evils that lurk in the darkest recesses of the vegetable cupboard... maybe it's time for a clear-out!

Walk the Line , is the highly acclaimed Johnny Cash biopic, starring Joaquin Pheonix and Reese Witherspoon , based directly on Cash's a...

The attic is starting to look like a pleasant place to sit, think, read or work. (It'll soon be a mess again once I move all thebooks up...

More progress on the extension to the church premises.

One of the dilemmas in moving the study up into the attic was going to be what to do about the broadband line. Virgin wanted £100- to move t...

John 14:15-17, the words of Jesus, set to music by Thomas Tallis: "If you love me, you will obey my commands. I will ask the Father, a...

Irvine Butterfield in his book, "The High Mountains of Britain & Ireland" describes Ben Chonzie as a "dull Munro". C...

Frank Prochaska's "Christianity and Social Service in Modern Britain: The Disinherited Spirit" is a well-researched and prett...

Over seven years ago, when we only had young Boris, (Norris and Doris were yet to even be considered), we had a child-care crisis. The only ...

Proverbs 31 contains this famous description of the 'wife of noble character' . Commentators have noted that King Lemuel whose oracl...

A business can create the impression of competence and decency if all they are required to do is to sell boxes of kit with a suitable mark-u...