Monthly Archives: December 2019
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Posted: December 29, 2019Read more »
Out with the Old and In with the New –
With the Turn of the Decade
Well the decade has changed and so has the way we shop. But some things never seem to change, Great Scot Andy Murray is out of the Australian Open with a dicky hip and the weather has been grim. But the story of a brother and sister’s 700 mile runaway journey to North Tolsta on the Isle of Lewis caught my eye. It was a doc on the Beeb...
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Posted: December 09, 2019
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Posted: December 03, 2019Read more »
If I Had a Hammer-
Sir Andy’s Grueleathon
Wow well I’ve been watching a gruelling film about Andy Murray and his fight with injury and it is brutal. Especially the operation scene where he gets his new metal coated hip joint and they put it in with a hammer. Ouch! But as always what we get when we take a closer look at the Great Scot is a complex picture of both a warrior type and an argumentative...
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Posted: December 03, 2019Read more »
Polly Put the Kettle on-
Oh You Have No Gas, Shame!
If you live in the Falkirk area then you may have had a chilly week due to a gas network failure. Hundreds of engineers are visiting homes in the area as part of a major operation to tackle the problem. Since Sunday thousands of people have spent the nights without heat in freezing temperatures after failure on the Sunday morning. For those considered...
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Posted: December 03, 2019Read more »
Baby it’s Cold Outside -
Scotland Braced for the Coldest Winter for Ten Years.
In all this talk of weather warming there is also a natural cycle to be aware of and that is solar cycle which this year is at its lowest ebb before the cycle starts again and reaches its peak round 2024. The current solar cycle, and began in December 2008. Now the sun is at the weakest point of its 11-year cycle of strength...
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Posted: December 02, 2019Read more »
Well if you wanted to post cheaply I’m afraid you’ve already and quite literally missed the boat for sending surface mail around the world, since for most places that was in October. But here are the last posting dates for those ordinary Christmas cards. Mine are sat next to me and I will have to begin the seasonal greetings very shortly.
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Last recommended posting date
Royal Mail 2nd Class
