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At Sete. Good job we didn't go to the other beach we were considering, just down the coast. Apparently it's the 'capital of Fren...

Although now over a decade old, and in some ways out-of-date, George Monbiot's "Captive State" is nevertheless a shocking expo...

I don't know how fraternal the good citizens of Magalas consider themselves to be, but our holiday house apparently needed three massive...

“Between Heaven and Hell, A Dialogue Somewhere Beyond Death with John F. Kennedy, C.S. Lewis, and Aldous Huxley” is a curious and fascinati...

L'Eglise St-Laurent, Magalas

The Millau Bridge is breathtaking. It is one of the few man-made structures I have seen that has stopped me in my tracks, made me draw breat...

Tim Keller's book "Counterfeit Gods", is subtitled: ' When the Empty Promises of Love, Money and Power let you down '....

"Nobody Loves You (When You're Down & Out)" is a song I first heard many years ago - probably in the version by Derek and...

The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) is Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's remarkable film set in East Germany. Ulrich Mühe plays...

There's something special about the way that Perth looks as more Wintery light comes in. During the summer, the colours of the roofs, t...

I have just read of the death, aged 95, of Sir Norman Wisdom. The last of the music hall comics to find mainstream film success - Wisdom bec...

While some childhood memoir books use extravagant writing to tease out every possibility from a relatively mundane plot - Alexei Sayle's...

On Saturday October 30th, "An Evening of Music, Food and Fun in aid of Save The Children in Pakistan" is planned for Perth. A vari...

I stared at the screen in disbelief. I scrolled to the top of the page and read it all again, unable to process the information I was receiv...

I've been doing quite a lot of preaching this term, both in my home church and other places. Some of these talks seem to have "gone...

John M. Giggie's book, "After Redemption: Jim Crow & The Transformation of African American Religion in the Delta 1875-1915...

The short walk from the NTS carpark by the A9 at Dunkeld through the falls of Braan at The Hermitage, is a popular jaunt - an done we have d...

Life has changed in the last few weeks, as we no longer have any pre-school children at home with us in the afternoons - as little Doris has...

One of the great debates of the last two centuries has been the relationship between science and faith; a debate which has been re-ignited b...