Dear All Part of my new daily routine is to get up in the morning, usually, around 6.00 am, to begin writing my daily thoughts. It’s been, and is, an interesting and enjoyable exercise from...
Dear All This being Star Wars Day, ‘May the fourth be with you!’ Anyone having taken or are currently taking their Standard grade biology will be familiar with the lessons on the structures of animal...
Dear All If it were at all possible that a Roman soldier of some 2000 years ago could come back and visit us today in 2020 he would probably recognise many familiar things. He would...
Dear All My old primary school uniform had a maroon blazer and the badge bore two faces, one happy and the other sad. You can see this ‘badge’ around theatres if you care to look...
Dear All The familiar ‘I’ve started so I’ll finish’ were words we used to hear uttered by Magnus Magnusson, the ‘Viking Interrogator’, on Mastermind. Mastermind, the specialist TV quiz programme that could reduce grown men...
Dear All Yesterday in my ‘Thought for the day’ I referred to Samson as a ‘sunny boy’. Not that I was expecting anyone to pick up on the pun, but for your interest, the name...
Dear All Just for your interest, I’m getting about six weeks to the gallon of fuel in my car and there are 17.6 million grains of sugar in a 1KG bag, The grass actually grows...
Dear Reader Someone a short while ago got a bit annoyed with me and told me that ”I talked too much”. I said: ‘Well, we all have our opinions and If you really think I...
Dear Reader Walls are ‘man-made’ constructions and serve many purposes. We are familiar with the many walled gardens in existence throughout the country, an attractive and functional feature of many stately homes and estates. These...
Dear Reader Many of our hymns and songs have their origins in the bible. Some are paraphrases and some are personal devotional compositions. In some denominations, the Free Church of Scotland for example, you will...