In our house we often welcome in the New Year with a seasonal singalong to this seasonal sensation....

Stuart 'Woolly' Wolstenholme, April 15th, 1947 - 13th December, 2010 Tributes from all over the world are pouring in for Stuart ...

"For seven years I was College Chaplain and Worcester College, Oxford. Each year I used to see the first year undergraduates individua...

Is this sign language and can anyone interpret for me?

The film-maker Charles Burnett was caught up in the Great Migration of African-Americans between the segregated South, and the economic and ...

The rider was rescued unharmed and is inside defrosting...

Perth has become icicle-world this week - great shards of ice hanging like curtains from guttering groaning under their weight.

After Spike Milligan's death, a small library of books were produced by all manner of people who either knew him, or researched him. Som...

Curse these modern-type wheelie-bins, folks!

Paul Jones and his wife Fiona Hendley were at our church last week, talking about their lives and 'showbiz'(!). Paul was an atheist ...

I remember standing outside The Kremlin one icy November day and watching Mikhail Gorbachev, François Mitterand and their entourages, sweepi...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights contains the following statement, listed as Article 18: 'Everyone has the right to freedom of ...

Not the blitz - just the haar At least one of these white masses is a solid mountain... The Tay steams in the morning sun

Over the last few years loads of people seem to have given up blogging. For many people Facebook has taken over as a place to post brief me...

Fifty kilometres separate Kinnoull Hill in Perth with Ben Vorlich and Stuc a Chroin by Loch Earn. On hazy summer days that gap seems to grow...

As the haar begins to thin-out and break up, Perth City Centre suddenly appears through the gloom. (click on photo to see at full-size)

D. Robin Taylor is a Baptist Pastor, who has written a very surprising book about Christian Baptism, the content of which has been the mate...

It's now only two weeks until Rock and Blues legend Paul Jones, comes to Perth with his wife Fiona Hendley for their "An Evening Wi...

In the Gorge a L'Heric (click on photo to enlarge)

Martin Scorsese's exploration of The Blues contains seven films made by different writers/producers each of whom have examined a differ...

This slightly spooky looking old bridge is part of an old walkway through the gorge. Click on the image to enlarge.