For over a century, the Great Hall of Stirling Castle was sub-divided and used as a military barracks. Troops were initially stationed here ...

Stirling, from the castle

The old muso-joke runs as follows: Q: "What do you call someone who hangs around with musicians?", A: "A Drummer"! The...

I will never forget the night I watched a particular gig on the TV. Extremely late one evening, BBC 2 screened a remarkable event called ...

Yesterday I had to clear out part of our attic to make space for an inspection of the timbers in our roof, which appear to be moving... Whil...

If I lie on our bed and look up I can see the cracks that are working their way steadily around the ceiling and into the wall behind the hea...

I have just said farewell to my old car, as it was ignominiously tipped up and dragged away by its hind-wheels. This dreadful old heap was ...

The above has appeared on my study door..... I do so love my family...

Perth - all sandstone, yellow and morning sun - as the first rays have cut through the cloud which hung low over the river all night.

"The rubble lying strewn around on platform four looks likely to remain there for several more months...."

For external observers of the Northern Irish scene, there are few things which meet with such bemused incredulity as the parades of the Oran...

Newhaven Harbour, near Leith, Edinburgh. The Forth Bridges can be glimpsed in the background.

The morning sun on Perth Bridge.

Is it just me, or do some of our educationalists need to do a few more spelling and grammar tests and a little less making dressing up costu...

'Boris', belaying for 'Norris' as he edges towards the top of the Alien-Rock climbing wall in Edinburgh, in the 'blindf...

Publishing the above is more proof that as far as these youngsters are concerned, I am indeed their 'embarrassing relative'....

The Marriage Course is a series of seven enjoyable evenings for couples to spend together investing in their relationship. It's suitabl...

This was no ordinary gig. When John Lees' Barclay James Harvest stepped on stage on Saturday night at the Buxton Opera House, they were...

We're holding a Marriage Course Party a party on Saturday night. We're inviting all the people who have done The Marriage Course he...

A wee trip to the capital yesterday...

You may have noticed that Valentine's Day is almost upon us once again, when card-shops tell us that we don't actually love our love...

My birthday present yesterday was a nifty new camera - I haven't learnt how to use it properly yet, but here's a quick shot of Pert...

I am only a few hours away now from being 40. The enormous leap from being "in my thirties" to being "in my fifth decade...

Au Revoir Les Enfants , is Louis Malle's autobiographical film about a Roman Catholic boarding school in occupied Vichy France, in the l...

'Generous Justice' is Tim Keller's take on Christians and Social Justice, and is a great little book. It may be an increasingly ...

When I was a young teenager in the first half of the 1980s, the young people in the youth group I went to, were divided into two groups. Eac...

Reports of Moore's death are hitting the internet.

Every year OUP (Oxford University Press) has an online book sale. In the past this has been the source of some really good reading at excell...

Credit to Kecske Bak for so delightfully contorting the " Album Cover Game "!

Here's how the "Album Cover Game" works. 1 - Go to wikipedia and hit random. The first random wikipedia article you get is the...