Showing posts with label Scotland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scotland. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 14, 2016

How the NHS lost my man ...

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Here's a wee NHS story with a personal twist. I've been married to a non-person for the past 12 years - or is it 11? We did wonder, ...
Wednesday, September 02, 2015

The Education debate - a builder's take

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I was chatting to our builder yesterday about schools. It seemed to me that this successful tradesman, running the building firm that he inh...
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Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Referendum Question - a poem for the aftermath

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Referendum Question Would there have been tears when the old Union died, a bitter mourning for the loss of joyous hope denied? Or ...
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Friday, September 19, 2014

A post-Referendum letter to the 45%

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I'm writing this at the end of the kind of grey day I yesterday remembered from the '80s. It's hard for me to feel the optimism ...
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Thursday, September 18, 2014

I voted YES because ...

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By the time I have finished writing this post, the polls will have closed. In fact, I shall shortly stop writing so that I can watch th...
Thursday, February 07, 2013

Talking posh

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Just before I left the house this morning, I caught a snatch of Call Kaye on the radio. Should we be insisting that our children talk 'p...
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Sunday, May 06, 2012

Miners' Gala 1984

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Miners' gala Originally uploaded by goforchris . I’m riding on a lorry through the Edinburgh streets. Beside me is a missile...
Monday, March 19, 2012

Nothing new about teaching Scottish Literature, but.

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I was irritated by something I overheard on Radio Scotland this morning - something that had already irritated me when it was first announce...
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Sunday, December 06, 2009

Culture? Go to the bottom of the class

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Today's Herald carries a big piece on the anger of the arts world at the philistines who rule us - triggered on this occasion by the ...
Friday, June 29, 2007

Oransay

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What a wonderful place. We waded through the last of the receding tide to get here, and walked to the Priory through glorious sun and larkso...
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Picnic by the Loch

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As this lovely spot is blessed by a strong phone signal, I am able to post this even as I demolish the last crumbs of shortbread from the pi...
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Monday, April 30, 2007

Everybody out?

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Well, who'da thunkit? Seems (according to recent polls) that the Nats might actually pull it off this Thursday and achieve a majority in...
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Monday, November 20, 2006

Food for thought

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Scotland is an amazing country. In one day we passed from the bright sun and autumn colours of the far north-east to the deep winter of Glen...
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