April 2008

Much discussion today about comic freebies…my thanks to David Livingstone for this illustration, and to Sandy Taylor for instructions on how to make a Thunderbang: “Tom. For goodness sake (as you would say). You cut a square of card. Cut a triangle of brown paper to cover half of the card from opposite corners and…

Renting a holiday flat in Glasgow for a week, sight unseen, over the internet, has proved mostly successful – it’s comfortable, clean, plenty of room for Martha and Susan (James is, ahem, ski-ing in Italy with the school; beats a week at Abington Army Camp in my young day). But there’s no broadband, and despite…

“No-one loves a seagull”. So said Doug Johnstone the other day on the Radio Cafe, describing a scene in his latest, excellent book, The Ossians. The scene in question is set on the North Pier of Aberdeen. Here are three that escaped. The other two pictures show two churches, immediately opposite one another. One, like…

Last week on the show I asked listeners to send in their synonyms for ‘being drunk’. The idea was to turn the various terms into a poem which will feature in the Malt and Barley Revue (premieres on April 12th and 13th at the Glenfarg Hotel and the Inn at Lathones). So, here we have…