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Scottish Tea for Two?

It Seems Scottish Climate Ideal for Tea Growing

Well I never, I was listening to Gardener’s Question Time when they said that the best place to grow tea in the world is Scotland, well you could have knocked me down with a Tunnock’s Tea Cake. And when I looked into it is true and they have medals and certificates and stuff to prove it. Mind you it isn’t cheap, the Queen sups the...

Father’s Day

It May Be an American Invention, But Don’t Get forgotten

Well with Mother’s Day and Mothering Sunday the females in the family get thought of twice as often as us men, but it’s us worth dropping hints to the missus and the kids about what would look nice in a gift wrapped present

Good Deals for the Man in Your Life

Now it’s not worth hoping for what the Americans call a big ticket item...

New Study Brings Yet More Doom and Gloom

Put That Sausage Down Man!

The doomsayers are at it again it seems. Scottish men, Crivens that’s close to home, are more likely to snuff it early because we eat too much meat. Well they talk about your “biological age,” well every Scots woman knows that we are permanent teenagers anyway, as opposed to our chronological age varies most in Scotland. We have become...

 Want to Look Younger- Have a Gin

Anti-A-Gin, a Dream Come True?

A hotel group commissioned a television presenter to make some gin that will restore your skin with a collagen supplement. How cool is that? If you were brought up on the works of the London painter William Hogarth and his pictures of Gin Alley it will come as a shock. GIN is GOOD for You! Or so claim food designers and culinographers...

Royal Regiment of Scotland Celebrates First Decade

The capital has just experienced the Royal Regiment of Scotland at its most impressive, when a hundred of the regiment’s finest paraded through the streets of Edinburgh, exercising their privilege of the freedom of the city. The march was to help publicise a new exhibition of the regiment’s history at the National War Museum which is inside Edinburgh...

On Her Majesty’s 90^th Birthday

Gifts Galore

 Sound drums and trumpets, far and near!

And Let all Queen Elisabeth’s subjects loudly cheer!

And show by their actions that they revere,

Because she’s served them sixty three year!

All hail to the owner of corgis and Great Britain’s Queen!

Long may she live happy and serene!

And as this is now her ninetieth year,

I hope her subjects will show their loyalty...

Is Nessie Back from His Hols?

Loch Ness Monster Tries City Break In London!

Have you been to Loch Ness, tried to swim its length or water ski up and down it for the record books, well me neither? But I have always been fascinated by the idea of a creature of some descriptions swimming on the cold murk of the loch. Ness is over twenty miles long and to say its fresh waters are chilly is to suggest warmth...

Cardboard Coppers Give Fife a Scare

Life Size Cut Outs Designed to Shock Speeders

It is obvious that the police in Fife want you to take notice of the law, but their way of going about it has raised a few eyebrows. It seems a simple and effective way to stop speeders in cars is to prop a life size cardboard copper on the streets aiming a speed gun at you and car speeds drop dramatically.  They call...

Do You Get Out of Breath Running for the Bus?

In new research from the British Heart Foundation we are all shocked to find that about half of the population can’t run for the bus without feeling rather poorly and out of breath.

42 per cent of men confessed to this and we all know men will exaggerate their physical prowess, because I do! While a more honest 48% of women said they were done in by sprinting...

Don’t Lose Your Head

Use It Instead

You might remember when I wrote  a fan piece about Lord Lovat’s piper Bill Millen who piped the boys ashore on D Day in 1944, but today I am writing about one of Lovat’s more notorious ancestors Simon Fraser the  11^th Lord Lovat who was the last men ever  beheaded in Britain, who lost his head the year after the failed uprising of 1745.

Game of Thrones?

Simon...