News for Scotland and the UK

The loss of normal Newsnight last night, and the complete absence of anything relevant to Scotland in the entire The World at One program on Radio 4 yesterday lunchtime has got me thinking about the news in Scotland.
The Times newspaper in Scotland has dedicated coverage to Scotland, with pages that the rest of the UK [...]

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Where has Newsnight Gone?

I have just turned on the TV tonight hoping to see Newsnight, but instead there is a program interviewing the main candidates for the Glasgow East by-election.    They have spent all the normal Newsnight time doing this, and now are in over-run time interviewing the minority candidates ‘in the interest of fairness’.    I can’t say [...]

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Wild Oat Time

It is wild oat time again, and the wolf spiders are back.
I reckon that walking over 9 acres taking in a 25 yard swathe at a time equals one mile.   So two of us each walked almost 6 miles each today just going up and down the fields through the crops.     Pleasant way of keeping fit, especially [...]

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Wing Clipping Time

Our 13 hens are enclosed in a paddock and have lots of space, shade, sun and a nice henhouse to come and go from as they please, although they are shut up at night from the fox.
Over the last few weeks, we have had about four hens desperate to escape, and managing to fly quite [...]

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Chanterelles

I don’t know what’s going on with the weather and all that, but our local Chanterelles have made a ridiculously early appearance.    Normally these sprout up in September.   
We had a little expedition this afternoon to harvest a few to put into a risotto, but the July weather has dried them out – they were pretty [...]

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Elton John – Perth

The Elton John concert was the first really big stadium concert Perth has held.    16,000 people poured into the football stadium which normally takes 10,000 in the stands.     It was a huge operation with various car parks in neighbouring businesses and farmers’ fields being pressed into service, and we were all told to get there early.    [...]

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