Monthly Archives: August 2019
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Posted: August 22, 2019Read more »
Castle for Sale –
Not Mine I Can Tell You
Now I like Star Trek films, but when I saw the name Chris Pine I had a momentary black out as to who he was. I didn’t even remember he was a Hollywood superstar. But then I saw his picture and realised that he was the present incarnation of the younger James. T. Kirk of the Starship Enterprise and he had been living in Scotland, who knew? I certainly didn’t...
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Posted: August 22, 2019Read more »
Old Fossil?-
No Trendy Dinosaur
Ever since Dougie the Dinosaur hit the press in 1995 the Isle of Skye has lured fossil hunters north. The first bones were discovered in 1992 but kept under wraps until 95 and the femur of the sauropod, a creature like the veggie eating Brontosaurus, is now at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. And indeed the first dinosaur tracks were found by a local...
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Posted: August 10, 2019Read more »
Rough Winds Rock the Darling Buds of August(!) –
Gale Force Winds Have a Lash
Well it’s August and so I spent this morning with my pal Richard lashing down a collapsing veranda. The next door neighbours have an upper veranda and the rough winds had whipped it to pieces, so in the teeth of the storm we had to lash the privacy screen down to stop it blowing away and causing a heap of damage on the way...
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Posted: August 06, 2019Read more »
Pipe and Drum Bands What Could Be Better? –
220 of Them!
Now every reader of this blog knows of my fondness for the pipes and that heart knocking moment when the lone piper or the mass pipes start their tuneful wail, but you could have knocked me down with a feather when I found out two new things. Firstly there was a magnificent Sikh pipe band from Malaysia in Scotland for the world pipe championship...
