Actually we were probably getting a bit fed up with Pippa to be honest. (Sister of the Duchess of Cambridge in case you have been living in a cave for the last couple of years…) So it was very timely that Baroness Thatcher’s granddaughter stepped up to the lectern and taken our breath away. Not […]
The RSPB put out a call for the Great Big Garden Birdwatch last month, a very noble enterprise and one which must give them a great deal of data from which to do their work. At home however in the centre of Edinburgh we have our own bird problem. We have a pigeon problem to […]
In Essex last month police told the public to stay indoors till they investigated a report of a lion which was apparently on the loose in a field there. Except it wasn’t. Or at least it doesn’t seem to have been. The police were eventually stood down and there were no more sightings after that. […]
Multi-tasking, or at least the idea of it, is nothing new, but mobile phones have taken it to a new level. Our smart phones can do so many different things. You can talk to them to make them do things for you, although Apple founder, Steve Wozniak, admitted at his talk last week in Edinburgh […]
This week seems to have centred round food and eating. I love cooking, and I love eating even more, so these are things that go together well. Valentine’s Day was all about rack of lamb which is now a kind of ritual feast all of its own. The Boyfriend loves lamb. He loves cooking too […]
This week has been a hotch potch of cities, starting in London last Sunday, moving back to Edinburgh by way of very cheap fares on East Coast trains, flitting by Perth for a night (actually a town but almost a city again), crossing to Belfast with P & O and driving south to Dublin for […]
I love old adverts. They are so uncomplicated. These days it takes you most of your time to work out what is actually being advertised….. Old advert for Drambuie , posted with vodpod
