December 2006

  • No such thing as bad weather…

    “No such thing as bad weather,” goes the Russian proverb (well, according to Mike Skinner it does)”only bad clothes.” I beg to differ. There are no clothes extant capable of making bearable some of the climactic conditions pertaining to Shetland over the past weeks. As I write it is 12.40 pm, and 40 minutes ago,…

  • Not banking on it

    I’ve been with the Bank of Scotland (Shetland outpost) ever since moving to the Neck of the Bog (for the first time – in 1987) and the Byres Road branch (Glasgow) of the Royal Bank bounced a cheque I’d made payable to a Lerwick clothes shop. In a small community like this, bounced cheques are…

  • Belfast

    All kinds of problems loading pictures to this blog, so the best thing to do is click on the TITLE of this post, and you will be taken to my FLICKR page of Belfast pictures. I’m back in Scotland (at the Speedbird Inn, Aberdeen Airport, which not only has free wifi but HDTV flatscreen tellies!)and…