Welcome back my friends, to the flamboyance that never ends. Tonight, it’s bona to vada your dolly old eeks, as this week’s Fabulously Flamboyant Friday proudly presents yet another march of the muscle Marys up [more…]
Question Time 13th June 2024 The Panel: Douglas Ross (Conservative) Anas Sarwar (Labour) Kate Forbes (SNP) Stephen Nolan (Political Strategist) Iain Anderson (Businessman and Adviser) Venue: Edinburgh Tonight’s politicians are on Question Time too often. [more…]
Having exhausted Edinburgh’s King’s Gallery, myself and Mrs AWS spilled into the street and faced the caravan park, timeshares, swimming pool, shop and public lavatory complex opposite. Hold on a minute. On closer observation, the [more…]
Featured song: Elvis Presley with Hound Dog This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when they stopped making it. [more…]
Question Time 6th June 2024 The Panel: Mark Harper (Conservative) Shabana Mahmood (Labour) Liz Saville-Roberts (Plaid Cymru) Carla Denyer (Green Party) Venue: Chester One of the Warwickshire Mahmoods, Shabana was Labour MP for Birmingham Ladywood [more…]
The French have a phrase for it. Don’t they always? Ce pays ici. As a literal translation, ‘this country of ours’. By idiom, a courtier’s name for the Versailles bubble of pre-revolutionary France. Lord Clark [more…]
On a chill November night in 1864 a small boy lay trembling behind a rock — not a hundred yards from where I am writing this — and watched a city burn. It was the [more…]
Now and again, amidst the bustle of comments that none of us read, we notice that a familiar voice has fallen silent, and we wonder. It isn’t particularly unusual for the folk who frequent this [more…]
On our day trip to Edinburgh, Mrs AWS and I de-trained on Waverley’s Platform 9 at 12:17 prompt. While a disappointing first-class breakfast rattled in our tums, we allowed ourselves to be swept out of [more…]
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