Pillar of the Community

It has been a difficult start to the week.   
Imagine a whole primary school turning up on Monday morning to no school crossing lady but a growing floral tribute.     Our local Minister held a special school assembly to ‘begin the healing process’ for the children.    
The press have now largely gone, and we have to pick up the [...]

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Car Crash

On Saturday night, there was a particularly nasty car crash just down the road – the sort that makes the national news:    5 dead, 1 injured.     
There were 2 cars involved, one with three 19/20 year olds, and the other with a family in it.    It is a notorious piece of road:   dead straight, but with dips that [...]

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How Late Can You Plant Daffodils?

How late can you plant daffodils, I wonder?  
Last year, I planted some in February, and they came up fine, if a bit late.   We had a very cold and long spring, and all the daffodils were late, but the February planted ones were slightly later.
I have just finished planting 20kg of mixed daffodils and narcissi.   Some [...]

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GNER, VisitScotland and the Underground

GNER and VisitScotland have got together to promote Edinburgh on the London Underground.
Bringing in more visitors to Scotland is good, but Edinburgh gets lots of visitors anyway.   GNER also run to Stirling, Glasgow, Perth, Dundee, Aberdeen and Inverness – and all points in between.     Also, there is a year long festival in the highlands called [...]

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Second Life

I have heard about Second Life, but wonder why would I want to devote time and energy to running a virtual life when I am fully occupied with my First Life thanks.     
I did like this First Life page .

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L’Heure Espagnole + Gianni Schicchi

L’Heure Espagnole + Gianni Schicchi was a comedy opera double bill put on by students from the Opera School at RSAMD and the Scottish Opera orchestra, augmented with some orchestral students.
Instead of the small intimate Atheneum Theatre, they moved across the road to the much bigger Theatre Royal.    This had advantages of a bigger stage, [...]

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About Tam O Shanter

Bruce Fummey gave a cracking first rate performance of his Edinburgh Festival Show “About Tan O’ Shanter”.    The wee library theatre in Perth was simply packed with folk to hear this show.
The first half was a warm up – little to do with Burns, but great fun, ending with three lovely Burns songs movingly sung [...]

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Lorries and Bad Weather

Our wee road up a steep hill from our village was blocked by not one, but three articulated lorries this morning, who had tried and failed to make it up.    What were the drivers thinking about?   The road was sheet ice with still some of yesterday’s snow about.    Sheer madness to even try, and it [...]

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Black Watch – Coming Soon

I missed Black Watch at the Edinburgh Festival this year.    It was a major hit.    The good news is that the National Theatre of Scotland is reviving it, so we will get a chance to see it.   Booking now open, £20 a ticket (£10 concessions) – that’s pretty steep actually.    But the play can’t be [...]

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Snow

How much snow does it take to block a motorway?   Not much at all.   What on earth was going on on the M90 this morning at the Kelty section?    I remember being stuck on this section last year – there were 2 inches maximum of snow.   Everything simply ground to a halt.
Why does this happen?    How come [...]

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