I don't know if Carl Trueman actually set out to irritate people across the political spectrum; but his 2010 book, Republocrat: Confe...

Testing the limits of how still I can hold the camera - next camera thing required = tripod!

My wife & I were supposed to be enjoying a weekend away together, without the kids! She didn't know anything about it, but I h...

The Fires of Jubilee is Stephen B. Oates stirring narrative of the dramatic events which took place in Southampton, Virginia in 1831. Hi...

For James Cone, neither The Spirituals,  nor The Blues , can be appreciated as musical/lyrical/cultural expressions, apart from the Black...

Extraordinary patterns in the ice on our attic Velux windows last week. (Click image to enlarge)

Tom Wright's latest popular level book, Simply Jesus , brings the fruits of his many decades of scholarly work on the gospels, and hi...

Er, what it says on the tin...

Blue= climbed. Red= Not yet climbed! Munro-bagging, (defined as the attempt to stand upon each 3000ft+ summit in Scotland, having c...

THE TOWN OF THE TAY - PERTH Click on the image - links to a film about Perth, made in 1936.

"The Stone Table", Kinnoull Hill not Narnia. Click on image to see at full size.

Walking in to town for breakfast with my wife - mist hovering low over the Tay.

Dave, I had a word with the Fungus, they assure me that there's plenty of dead wood for everyone to share. 

The storm last May brought down a lot of trees near us, but the chaos of that Monday evening was offset by the nice collection of firewo...

On the hill yesterday, with fog hanging around the Tay below, and the yellow morning sun above.. As ever, click on the image to see it pro...

Some school reading book which my kids had featured a 'bad guy' called "Mr Collins". This Mr Collins, made quite an im...

Looks quite nice at full size - click on the image to see it properly!

  Nestling between the two small hills near our house there is a spring which feeds a pond with fresh water all year round. Even when th...

Some aspects of the so-called "Great British Blues Boom" of the 1960s are disputed. Not least amongst these questions is why so m...

Ooh-eck, I like that! Looks even better full size (click on it to see).

One of the highlights of recent Radio 4 comedy has been "Mark Steel's in Town" in which the radical and acerbic stand-up sati...

Click to enlarge - and see the picture properly!

A favourite family stroll starts at Rumbling Bridge near Dunkeld and follows the track alongside the River Braan  to The Hermitage.

One of the best things about the Christmas season this year has been having my parents up in Sc...

The New York based pastor and author Tim Keller (most well know for his Christian apologetic work The Reason for God) , has kept up a q...

During the Cold War era, the lines were drawn clearly. On one side stood communism, state-control of the economy, and lack of human rights ...