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Ice Station Zero (Revisited)

28th October 2021 Going Postal 0

I wrote a few notes on Warble Gloaming recently, and with the gloomfest that is COP26 looming I thought it might be time to revisit them. Here’s the first, which I’ve named after an Alistair [more…]

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A Holiday in Scotland, Part 3 (Loch Lomond to York )

13th October 2021 Going Postal 0

Leaving Loch Lomond, we travelled down the M74 towards Carlisle and eventually on to the M6 where we took the A66 junction near Penrith, crossing the Pennines and headed towards the A1(M).  We arrived in [more…]

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A Holiday in Scotland, Part 2 (Glasgow, Falkirk, Loch Lomond)

5th October 2021 Going Postal 0

You may recall from Part 1 that we had to rearrange our trip to the Falkirk Wheel due to getting stuck in traffic leaving Edinburgh and after our aborted trip we headed to our next [more…]

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A Holiday in Scotland, Part One (Edinburgh)

28th September 2021 Going Postal 0

With our September holiday to Turkey being cancelled in mid-August (it’s been on the red list since May 2021) an alternative destination needed to be found toot suite as myself, Mrs Reggie, Miss Reggie and [more…]

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The Secret of the Loch

2nd September 2021 Going Postal 0

This is another article by my Uncle, John Alldridge. In addition to writing for the Manchester Evening News, he also wrote many articles for the BBC (back in the 50s and 60s when it was [more…]

Culture

Rough Growing In A Pandemic (The Scottish Question)

1st June 2021 Colin Cross 0

The weather has been atrocious. In many ways it’s been a problem in the greenhouse, tomato plants are stressed, evidenced by the yellowing lower leaves and my red onions have bolted, caused, I’m sure, by [more…]

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The mummies of Cladh Hallan

17th May 2021 Going Postal 0

If I said to you the word ‘mummies’, archaeologically speaking what comes to mind? (As an aside, that reminds me of one of my favourite British Library catalogue subheadings describing a book – ‘Mummies. For [more…]

Arts

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

23rd April 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 22nd April 2021 Panel: Douglas Ross (Conservative) Anas Sarwar (Labour) Keith Brown (SNP) Willie Rennie (LibDem) Lorna Slater (Green) Venue: Edinburgh If British politics is a Westminster village then Scottish politics is a [more…]

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19th Century

John Scott Russell

3rd March 2021 Going Postal 0

Imagine, if you will, that you have decided to go for a horse ride along a canal towpath. You see a canal barge making its way along the canal and in front of the barge [more…]

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