Monthly Archives: April 2016

On Her Majesty’s 90^th Birthday

Gifts Galore

 Sound drums and trumpets, far and near!

And Let all Queen Elisabeth’s subjects loudly cheer!

And show by their actions that they revere,

Because she’s served them sixty three year!

All hail to the owner of corgis and Great Britain’s Queen!

Long may she live happy and serene!

And as this is now her ninetieth year,

I hope her subjects will show their loyalty...

Is Nessie Back from His Hols?

Loch Ness Monster Tries City Break In London!

Have you been to Loch Ness, tried to swim its length or water ski up and down it for the record books, well me neither? But I have always been fascinated by the idea of a creature of some descriptions swimming on the cold murk of the loch. Ness is over twenty miles long and to say its fresh waters are chilly is to suggest warmth...

Cardboard Coppers Give Fife a Scare

Life Size Cut Outs Designed to Shock Speeders

It is obvious that the police in Fife want you to take notice of the law, but their way of going about it has raised a few eyebrows. It seems a simple and effective way to stop speeders in cars is to prop a life size cardboard copper on the streets aiming a speed gun at you and car speeds drop dramatically.  They call...

Do You Get Out of Breath Running for the Bus?

In new research from the British Heart Foundation we are all shocked to find that about half of the population can’t run for the bus without feeling rather poorly and out of breath.

42 per cent of men confessed to this and we all know men will exaggerate their physical prowess, because I do! While a more honest 48% of women said they were done in by sprinting...

Don’t Lose Your Head

Use It Instead

You might remember when I wrote  a fan piece about Lord Lovat’s piper Bill Millen who piped the boys ashore on D Day in 1944, but today I am writing about one of Lovat’s more notorious ancestors Simon Fraser the  11^th Lord Lovat who was the last men ever  beheaded in Britain, who lost his head the year after the failed uprising of 1745.

Game of Thrones?

Simon...

Are You Sitting on a Mountain Million of Small Change?

Spring Cleaning Cleans Up

THE RIVER BANK- REVISITED!

The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home. First with brooms, then with dusters; then on ladders and steps and chairs, with a brush and a pail of whitewash; till he had dust in his throat and eyes, and splashes of whitewash all over his black fur, and...

Booze Cruise

Take A Dram Instead

If you ever watch ITV then you will be aware of River Cruises and be worried that you may enter their demographic sometime and start to feel warm and cuddly at the thought of a cruise up the Rhine or down the Danube. Ooh No!

The wife and I often joke about whether we are old enough to be worried yet. So far we are okay, but ageing everyday of course.

But then there...

Parking Charges- It’s Officially a Rip Off

Some Scottish Councils Profiteer at Your Expense

Have you ever wondered why you are penalised when you park the car and go shopping, maybe overstaying by a tiny bit and then the might of parking enforcement descends upon you in the only bit of Scots law that allows a disproportionate response to the offence, i.e. the parking fine.

Wracked by the Council

It’s...

The Small Comic Who Never Short Changed Anyone

Ronnie Corbett Sadly Missed

Now you’ll be hard pushed to find a more engaging and likeable entertainer than Ronnie Corbett who starred in the David Frost Show, The Two Ronnies and my all time favourite Sorry, yes that dates me. Well we need to remember all that was wonderful about the Edinburgh born man who graced our screens over 50 years.

Some Jokes...

A Rose by Any Other Name

What’s Your Nickname?

Well you’ll have heard of Auld Reekie, I’ve written about a few times before, but what about the other places in this nation? Or if you are in the second city it is the Dear Green Place.

One of my favourites is East Kilbride alias the Polo Mint City because it is a city of roundabouts. Think I am kidding, in the town planning day mare that is E K there...