Monthly Archives: September 2015

What Would You Do with Two Million Smackers?

Flying High After Lottery Win, Don’t SPEND, SPEND, SPEND

Proud Scots Peter and Claire Occardi are from Glasgow and currently living in “exile” in Yorkshireand they have won more than two million pounds playing the lottery online. And what are they going to do with all this dosh? Well Peter wants to buy himself an aeroplane. It’s all because he is nuts about...

Buddhists  Tea Cup Runneth Over

Tea Packed a Bit of a Belt

Two Glaswegian followers of enlightenment managed to come to blows over tea at a Buddhist retreat near Nairn and ended up in front of the beak at Inverness Sheriff Court in Inverness

Robert, and Raymond, both middle aged men, fell out over tea arrived at a home at Hazelwood, Laikenbuie. It seems they had some ‘previous’ together and the...

Donald Trump Sells Off Turnberry Goodies

US Presidential Candidate Getting Shot

Donald Trump the Millionaire, nay billionaire, USA Presidential hopeful is having the yard sale to end all yard sales and is selling off the contents of the renowned Turnberry golf club hotel. Mr Trump plans to make this into a wonder of the hotel world, despite the hotel’s last refurbishment being in only 2009.

Tee Off...

To Crown it All

Throne Rebuilt from Robert Bruce Sapling

A throne ten years in the making has been unveiled in Scone Palace. Made from the Bruce Oak, which was a sapling when the hero of Bannockburn, Robert the Bruce was alive. The oak was felled in a fire in 2005 and the wood rescued to make this historic piece of furniture.

History Lives             

The throne was made using the best historical...

Playing Chicken in the High Street

A hen party that went wrong or a dash for freedom from the clutches of KFC, we may never know. A large Rhode Island Red crossbred chick was rescued from outside a branch of Scotland’s favourite purveyor of fried chicken.

Hen Out of Cluck

The Hen was playing chicken with the traffic in busy Clackmannan Road in Alloa. No suspects have been found for this act of abandonment...

Just don’t Invite Jeremy Clarkson

Race Track Wedding Puts Marriage in Top Gear

It was a day to remember as a Motherwell couple, auto- engineer Stevie Goldie and fiancée Cheryl Docherty, wed before   tow thousand cheering fans at one of Scotland’s premier car sports events, Scottish Ford Live. The marriage they are sure will be on the right track.

Top Cheer

This happy marriage of sport and romance...

A Taste of Honey

Scottish Bees Go Short

Vandals have deprived Highland bees of their supper in a move described locally as ‘senseless.’  The bees belong to Struan Apiaries, a family run business, in the Highlands who make blossom and heather honey and have hives all over the north. The vandals opened up a valve on a giant syrup store and emptied it over the road causing a bridge to be closed for...

The Queen’s Greatest Hits  - The Longest Reign Ever

And a Right Royal Offer

The Queen celebrated beating her great grandmother Victoria’s record as the longest serving monarch in British history by opening the Borders Railway and seeing the first trains there for 48 years.

Pulled by Steam

The Queen’s train was hauled by the Union of South Africa a great steam train, the last of its class to run between...

More Right Royal Offers

The Queen this month entered the record books as the longest serving monarch, but she also has a few other records under her crown.

Pictured Everywhere

She is the most photographed woman in the world. As she has been around as Queen for seven decades that’s a long time to be in the public eye.  And she’s made many a day with a wave and a cheery hello.

She is the oldest female...

Bon Scott Statue on the Way

Fans of the late great AC DC Scottish born singer Bon Scott have had a whip round, or crowd funded as they say these days, and got enough money together for a statute to the lead singer of the largely Antipodean group. The singer was born in Forfar and lived in Kirriemuir and every year they hold a festival in his honour there, called nicely enough ‘the Bon fest.’