Monthly Archives: February 2019
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Posted: February 21, 2019Read more »
Watch This Space-
And Other Rocket Pelated Puns
The Highlands and Shetland are in a race to become Britain’s first spaceport, yes you read it right a space port in the far north which is a place where most struggle to get decent broadband. Why they even have whizzy McWhizzy names like the Shetland Space Centre located on Unst. Well I say located on Unst in reality it is a flat slab of land at present...
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Posted: February 12, 2019Read more »
Pot Holes and Vanishing ATMs –
Good News on the Horizon?
2018 was a strange year and this year is probably going to be strange too. We seem to be inundated with news that isn’t so good. What with post offices closing and rural communities under stress. Now the good people of Scotland are facing an uphill battle to access their cash after a large number of bank and cash machine closures. Research found...
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Posted: February 11, 2019Read more »
When Flamingos Sit on Your Desk –
Enter the Taste Free Zone
Sitting on my desk is a wedding present for some friends with a flamingo fixation. Yes a flamingo fixation. Carol and Simon are potty about the strangest birds in creation. And this present is far from special in terms of taste and durability or even value for money. What is it, well it is an eighteen inches high outdoor ornament? And what...
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Posted: February 11, 2019Read more »
Happy St Valentine
If you are reading this and you haven’t got a present yet, oops! But I suggest to you that you don’t pop down to the mini mart or petrol station. That way lies relationship stress and this scenario.
Roses are red violets are blue, if you buy from the garage you are in the p**
The lines should be:
The rose is red, the violet's blue,
The honey's sweet, and so are you.
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Posted: February 11, 2019Read more »
Sorry to Bothy You-
Scotland and the Love of the Hut
It’s been a while since I went sufficiently off grid to need to stay the night in a bothy, which is usually a hut but can be a small isolated house, but I can tell you that after the end of a day of long walking and little shelter from even a nice Scottish summer’s day then that bothy is so welcome. They don’t have facilities, but some pretend to...
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Posted: February 05, 2019Read more »
Ancient Monument is New-
Faker Farmer Winds Up Experts
Now I am a fan of archaeology and one of the many things I do on my holidays is to trudge off to the nearest site of historical interest and take a look at what the local landscape offers. Last September I went round an old Moorish castle in Silves and very nice too. It positively reeked of history. But sometimes what we think is truly historic...
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Posted: February 05, 2019Read more »
A Wee Deoch an’ Doris –
Distillers Boom Time
Now I like a man that is a man; a man that's straight and fair.
The kind of man that will and can, in all things do his share.
Och, I like a man a jolly man, the kind of man, you know,
The chap that slaps your back and says, "Jock, just before ye go...”Now regular readers will know that I am very fond of a dram and not a stranger to gin based drinks like...
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Posted: February 04, 2019Read more »
Droning on about St Valentine’s-
Will the Skies Soon Be Full of Airborne Freight?
If you live in a remote place then it is likely that you will be one of the first beneficiaries of drone service, for prescription drugs and essentials supplies. Well yes, if you read a bit about Scotland’s prisons you’ll see that drones already supply the inmates with drugs of a rather different kind, but the future...
