Perth continues to look idyllic in its Arctic cloak, with the hills of the Sma ' Glen forming a pure white backdrop to the chimney'...

Frost/Nixon is cracking film! Based on the stage-play of the same name, the film centres on David Frost's series of interviews with the ...

Just some random pix snapped on the way home with the phone

"All my holidays have been spent North of the Border; I have never had a vacation anywhere else, nor wanted to. Those are my qualificat...

We enjoyed a few walks in the country over Christmas. These lambs were born on Christmas Day. The friendly local farmer brought the just-bor...

Sunday mornings will invariably find our family at church. However, over the last fortnight getting anywhere at all has been a real problem....

In the foreground Kinnoull Church, the backdrop includes Deuchary Hill and Beinn a Ghlo on the skyline.

Perth from Kinnoull Hill

We've just returned to Perth to find it under a heavy blanket of snow. Northern Ireland, where we have been for Christmas, didn't h...

Where do you turn when you feel low? What is the most helpful thing to think about - when you feel crushed, or when your own mistakes, erro...

Perth, lunchtime today

Perth this morning

Ho, ho, ho (bah-humbug)

Hours of cleaning, sanding, polyfilla-ing! Finally, making progress At last it looks half-decent HHmmm, not too bad

"At all times there must be absolute equity"... this apparently is the golden parenting rule, when you have two boys amongst your...

There are several books which follow the "three views" or "four views" format, of being a round table discussion amongst...

Russian Ark is one of the strangest films I have ever seen. Often films test my patience with their dreary predicatability and so I always ...

I picked this one up very cheaply in a bargain bookshop for only a few pence. Nick Martin provides a satirical guide to Britain taking wry s...

What are these people doing? Scuttling around central Paris in a curious little swarm of electric two-wheeled, er... thingies ! When whirri...

And Mrs Hideous... !

Watson's book came to me highly recommended, and indeed is held in high esteem within Baptist circles, with a Reformed perspective. Unl...

Jesus Through the Centuries is a work of enormous scope, in which Jaroslav Pelikan seeks to establish Jesus' "place in the history ...

All that effort lighting the place - a shame really, it was too darn expensive to buy anything despite their extensive efforts!

Man on Wire is the story of French tightrope walker, daredevil, and eccentric Phillipe Petit and his illegal yet exhilarating, tightrope w...

On the roof of Notre Dame Cathedral

Notre Dame Cathedral

Campaigning comedian and journalist Mark Thomas' latest target for his satirical expose is The Coca-Cola Company . Fast-paced, easy-read...

Public art?! I must admit that a lot of contemporary public art just annoys me - and gives me brief (and rather disturbing) outbreaks of Da...

Still keeping an eye on things from his plinth...

The French are justifiably proud of their food. They have every right to be so, because even for the least auspicious looking little cafe, t...

Commissioned by Napoleon - 1806

I have been experimenting in the kitchen... Sometimes my culinary ambitions are so far ahead of my expertise that the results cause the reci...

The local author Maurice Fleming (one-time editor of The Scots Magazine ), had a clear-out of old books from his enormous collection. I am...

The Hotel Les Invalides , in addition to containing the remains of Napoleon also houses France's national war museum. Containing display...