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There are going to be a lot of bank holidays shortly and none more important than the coronation of the new king, the first for 70 years. The scramble for invitations to the ‘do’ is well under way and there are many fewer attendees this time around for safety reasons, so many will be disappointed. So if you don’t have one like me, you’ll be watching at home, or perhaps you’ll venture down to the Metropolis...

The West Indies in the winter, it sounds like a dream and believe me I have dreamed about it, as has the missus. In fact she goes further and regularly says that before she met me she could go every year for a break to St Lucia and play tennis in the sun in the winter, just as she always did. I always reply, there’s nothing to stop you dearest, but it gets a scowl. But one lucky female has made it...

What do you do first thing in the morning? Are you like the members of our household and do Wordle yet again to keep your winning run on the go? Yes we are hooked. Rather less so than in the beginning, but still firmly under the thumb of those pesky setters in the offices of the New York Times. At this very moment I am under the darkened skies of a marital fatwa - if I interrupt the missus while she...

When the wind blows we now have a great deal of relatively cheap energy and as seaside dwellers we are seeing ideas floated for our local area for wind generation across our horizon, but what happens when the wind doesn’t blow as it didn’t most of last summer and when those windmills are just very expensive skyline ornaments? Well the people in Scotland have the answer it’s a hydro scheme designed...

Naw ye canny shove yer grannie

Cause she's yer mammie's mammie

Ye canny shove yer grannie aff a bus

Sung to the tune of:  She’ll Be Coming Round the Mountain

This is a song that always makes me laugh and it carries a serious point that your granny is your mammie’s mammie and therefore due even more respect than any other old lady. And with Mother’s Day just around the corner and no buses in sight...

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I just looked at the weather map and there is a yellow hammer shape over the entire east of Scotland and that said hammer is an amber weather warning for snow. Oh, it’s chilly I say! But I’m not there of course. I’m currently ‘babysitting’ a friend after an op. A series of yellow...

This year Mother’s Day is on Sunday 19^th March  and it’s almost upon us. So don’t miss out on the opportunity to show that wonderful person that you love her. Of course the origins of the day is Mothering Sunday when you returned to your mother church, but don’t let that stop the demonstration of your respect and affection. Do you know the full story of our mum, or your mum in –law? It’s often in...

The dog in the picture is Max and he’s a part of the story today, because this week we have decamped away from the sea side to the depths of the country  and to a friend’s house. We are looking after her after a knee operation and Max comes as part of the package. We have to walk his dogginess twice a day in the open country; and of course it is a delight. Points of information about Max, is he’s...

Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim’rous beastie,
O, what a panic’s in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty,
Wi’ bickering brattle!
I wad be laith to rin an’ chase thee,
Wi’ murdering pattle!

Well Robert Burns the bard of Scotland has been somewhat disrespected by English barbers. A  first edition of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect had to be rescued from the said barbers  barbarity after...

Well you know when you’ve spent a deal of money on a coat and see the same coat worn by someone that you know and they bought it for a fiver in the charity shop, well that’s a tiny bit of how I feel having just been to the Arctic to see the Northern Lights when they were seen last night from Scotland and Northern Ireland to Cornwall and Kent. Well you’ve all seen the magical lights now I hope, but...