Monthly Archives: June 2018

  1. You Know Nothing Jon Snow – But I Will Marry You

    You Know Nothing Jon Snow –

    But I Will Marry You

    Are you a Games of Thrones fan, if you answer yes then you’ll know the characters of Jon Snow of the Night’s Watch and the Wildling Ygritte? And strange as their love story was on screen, the Night’s Watch being sworn to a life’s chastity it became stranger when Ygritte AKA actor Rose Leslie organised their real life wedding at the family castle. Kit Harington, 31, and Rose Leslie, also 31 invited their co-stars, including Peter Dinklage and Emilia Clarke plus Sophie Turner and Maisie Williams who portray Sansa and Arya Stark to the nuptials shindig.  It took place at Wardhill Castle, an estate that has been in Rose Leslie’s family for a mere 900 years. Rose’s father, Alexander Sebastian Leslie, is clan chief of the clan Leslie and the castle is a wedding venue already. I bet now that fans will be flying in from all over the world.

    Nice

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  2. One of Our Eagles is Missing- Golden Eagle Disappearance Suspicious

    One of Our Eagles is Missing-

    Golden Eagle Disappearance Suspicious

    Now a couple of years ago I had a close encounter with about four eagles, I even have the pictures to prove it. It was in Rocamadour which overlooks the valley of a  tributary of the River Dordogne. It is on the old pilgrim’s route to Santiago de Compostela and we were high on the peak next to a clock bell tower when the bell chimed. Well out of the tower flew four or five huge eagles about four feet away from us, disturbed by the chimes, but not as disturbed as we were. So I can tell you these birds have grandeur.  So when I heard one of Scotland’s apex predators the golden eagle had gone missing I was peeved.  A satellite-tagged golden eagle has gone missing in highly suspicious circumstances.

    Tagged and Maybe Bagged

    This according to the RSPB Scotland the 12th tagged eagle to go missing in the area of the Monadhliath

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  3. Glasgow Queen Street – Most Widely Disliked in UK

    Glasgow Queen Street –

    Most Widely Disliked in UK

    The Nation’s Least Favourite is Glasgow’s Queen Street Station and looks like a bomb has hit it and in a survey it has come top of the bottom,  as it is the UK’s least liked railway station.  We all hope for a bit of glamour when we travel, even if we can’t afford to turn left on the airplane,  or don’t have a chauffeur to open the doors and whisk us away, but no one expects an ounce of glamour at Glasgow’s Queen Street Station which had the lowest satisfaction levels with users in the UK. In the midst of everything, it’s a mess. Only58% of passengers who responded say they are satisfied with the city centre terminal. Popular stations rank at 96%. Even Hull gets a 78% despite those I know calling it, ‘Hull on Earth.’

    It Can Only Get Better

    Glasgow’s Queen Street Station is 9 months into

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  4. Petrol and Diesel Rise Every day for Two Months- Frightening Fuels Price Surges

    Petrol and Diesel Rise Every day for Two Months-

    Frightening Fuels Price Surges

    Apologies for a few days of non posting, I’ve had a bug. A pretty virulent bug as it happens and it has laid me low. And blow me when I crawl out from under the bed sheets I find that petrol and diesel has increased in price every single day for the last 2 months. It’s enough to send me back to bed again. This is prices measured by one of the motoring organisations and is taken across all the supermarkets in the UK, Scotland doesn’t escape. Having Scottish oil brings no relief.

    Insult to Injury

    Measuring the prices since the  end of March it seems that fuel has increased by more than 8 pence per litre at all the big 4 major supermarkets.  Petrol is now more than 80 US dollars a barrel and what with the pound being weak just now it adds insult to injury. It was down at 50 USD on a little while ago. The current

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  5. Dundee – Much More than Cake! City in Best of Europe Guide 2018

    Dundee – Much More than Cake!

    City in Best of Europe Guide 2018

    Scotland’s fourth largest city is now one of the best places to visit in Europe according to the travel guide people. It is hot listed as they say, as the guides try and move bums off streets in the more usual and crowded parts of Europe. Well I approve of that. I was in Stockholm recently, ah get you I hear you say, and the city could have two or three giant cruise ships in the harbour at any one time, all disgorging crowds of mostly Germans onto the streets to spend a very little in that nation’s capital. Well Dundee rates as number 6 in this less travelled guide to the hot spots from the famous travel writers.

    A Northern Gem Shines In Time for Father’s day

    The city now has earned the place in the guide for its spanking new urban redevelopment which includes the changes to its historic waterfront and the opening of a new branch

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  6. Father’s Day Father’s Day... Stop Press- Get Weaving Don’t Forget

    Father’s Day Father’s Day... Stop Press-

    Get Weaving Don’t Forget

    If you’ve been day dreaming in the warm weather and wondering if a BBQ might be worth the risk and how many sausages in a bun you can safely eat, then you might have forgotten about Father’s day. Shriek, yes forgotten. I was chatting to my neighbour yesterday and he was lighting one of those bag things on the BBQ which has the fire lighter, charcoal and accelerant all in one place and I suddenly realised it was Father’s day at the end of the week. So I promptly got carried away with something else and put my mind elsewhere. The wife has just suggested that I pop down to the Chinese take-away for our supper, the fish and chip shop closes on a Monday the scamps, and I said, ‘ I have to write about Father’s Day now. I can’t go down for the carry out I’m busy.’ Much good that did me I can tell you. I’m just ofski.

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  7. Excuse Me Missus Can We Have Our Trampoline Back? – Nation Hectored

    Excuse Me Missus Can We Have Our Trampoline Back? –

    Nation Hectored

    Well that’s it the police have warned us to get the garden furniture in and there are pictures of trampolines blowing in the wind, like a bad translation of the now very old Bob Dylan song. Cyclists are banned from the Forth Road Bridge, I didn’t know they were allowed, and trees in their summer glory have been uprooted. And if you want to go by train or ferry, then ferry good luck to you. Storm Hector is all around us and the rain is lashing at the windows.

    It’s an Ill Wind...

    Winds of 70mph plus were recorded in what was only a Yellow weather warning, surely in summer that needs to be upgraded with deciduous trees carrying so much up top that they are inherently unstable. I took my garden furniture in last night, but I had to lay a tarpaulin out for the tree man who is dumping 3 tonnes of tree bark later in the day. I’ll

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