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And here are some songs to remind you, it’s almost the LAST day

Last Christmas I gave you my heart
But the very next day you gave it away

Maybe you're the last train
Maybe you're the last train home

Last night, last night,
I couldn't even get an answer

Take the last train to Clarksville...

If You Are Stuck at Home

I don’t know about you, but it has been near lethal to get out of the front door this week and the lane has been covered in ice. You take your life in your hands to merely venture to the post box to send those last minute cards, first class only now I’m afraid. But we are off to see the Northern Lights in Norway in February and so we have invested in the thingymabobs in the...

You wait for one Santa and then four thousand come at once, no it is not the night bus it’s the great Santa Dash in Glasgow, celebrating the festive season in near near-freezing temperatures. It was the first run in three years after Covid and the proceeds went to charity. It’s a five kilometre course and I have a confession, I too once went on a Santa dash and it was fun, silly and hard work running...

The Most Famous Poem About Christmas, Ever!

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;
The children were nestled all snug in their beds;
While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads;
And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap,
Had...

Postman Pat Postman Pat
Postman Pat and his cost of living strike
Early in the morning Just as day is yawning
He isn’t putting postbags in his van

Postman Pat Postman Pat
Postman Pat and his cost of living strike

All the birds are whingeing And the strike day is just beginning
Pat knows he's not happy man

Everybody knows the bright red van locked in the yard again
So you can never be sure if there'll...

New Scottish Drama Hits Our TV Screens

Granite City is a new TV drama set in… yes, you guessed it Aberdeen. It features a fairly odd couple pairing, though nothing as strange as Turner and Hooch, the star of which was, sort of Tom Hanks, but really it was Beasley a burly, brown-nosed Dogues de Bordeaux that carried the world’s reserves of saliva in his mouth. In the same way in this series the actors...

Christmas all Wrapped Up

You may have noticed amongst youngsters there is new epidemic, no not Strep A,  sweeping the country and that is the “Elf on a Shelf” which comes from a recent children’s book and it requires the house holder to move an elf, which was handily sold with the book around the house every day before Christmas. It’s now become a tradition: Even though the tradition only dates back...

Black FriYAY

It’s almost upon us. The turkey has been bought and brave souls are trying to figure out how to cook the enormous bird without it drying up. My best suggestion is to take off the legs and cook them separately in the same oven for a much shorter time. Though a friend from Texas tell me that she cooks the turkey in a brown paper bag and covers the skin in loads of butter then cooks it in...

Happy Thanksgiving, Great Black Friday

Well this Thursday is Thanksgiving in the USA and Canada and it’s a Federal Holiday. The holiday has its origins in the story of the Mayflower, the ship of the Pilgrim Fathers, not so much about mothers in those days! We might have called it a Harvest Festival, but the original pilgrims had a pretty rough go of it and had plenty to celebrate. The Mayflower passengers...

Bronzes are Forever!

The art of bronze making has been known now for over two thousand years and the great artists have worked in this medium and a small town in Tuscany has hit the jackpot with a discovery of a hoard of more than 20 bronze statues and 6,000 gold, silver and bronze dating from the second century BC. They were found buried deep in an ancient thermal pool in San Casciano dei Bagni near...