Monthly Archives: January 2019
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Posted: January 30, 2019Read more »
Valentines’ Day Looms –
No Trips to the Garage Shop Please!
Now my missus’s birthday is the 8th February so that puts me hard to it to get something right for Valentine’s day. And as a relative newly-wed I suppose I should try harder than most. But I got the birthday present sorted last September when I was in Portugal and had it shipped home, it was fine porcelain and so very much on the money- matching...
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Posted: January 17, 2019
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Posted: January 12, 2019Read more »
Ding Ding –
Trams Proving Popular
With the prospect of more traffic regulation and low pollution zones it is heartening to hear that the capital’s new tramway is at long last getting plaudits from residents and attracting ten per cent more users in the last twelve months, but it is still only 16 stops. When Edinburgh Corporation Tramways ran, which was up until 1956, there was city wide coverage and...
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Posted: January 11, 2019Read more »
Parliamo Glaswegian –
Language Lessons for those without a Scooby
Now I am of an age to remember Stanley Baxter’s Parliamo Glasow about how to learn Glaswegian Scots and the hilarious language lessons he had for those without a Scooby, i.e. without a clue. Deathless lines like: “Zarra a marra onrra barra Clarra?” Answer : “It’s noo a tomarra!” And then explanations follow in hoity toity English for...
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Posted: January 08, 2019Read more »
Do Not Disturb
Giant Pandas May Have Noisy Neighbours Soon
As you probably know Giant Pandas are amongst the most beautiful and evocative animals in the world, symbols of the World wildlife Fund and the most annoying to look after. They seem programmed for difficulty. They eat only one thing, bamboo, and they have the mating urge of a near dead donkey. The female is attracted to males only once a year...
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Posted: January 08, 2019Read more »
Roll Over Beethoven-
Great Composer’s Ties to Scotland
Longer ago than I care to remember I was taught by a direct ancestor of Beethoven’s publisher George Thomson, without the ‘P’, he was also called George. So it was with some interest that I read that there was a certain amount of misdirection when Mr Thomson published that the Gaelic roots of Beethoven’s Scottish lieder were hidden or should...
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Posted: January 08, 2019Read more »
Sir Andy at the Gallop? –
I Don’t Think so as Hip Still Painful
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Posted: January 08, 2019
