Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
WEST of Scotland backs coach George Breckenridge heaped praise on his side after they played the conditions better to see off Watsonians on Saturday and collect their third wi
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
MY advice to Craig Levein, former player and successful manager of Hearts and now of Dundee United, is not to touch the Scotland job with the proverbial barge poll, because h
Pencil & Spoon (Free subscription) | yesterday
Question: What do you get if you take the Kent pub of the year , the Kent club of the year and add a shuttle bus and 60 casks of beer? That was the deal for the 2 Kents Real Ale Festival over the weekend ( I posted the beer list here ). I started at The Bull. Lauren and I went up there and met Brad , Pete , Pete’s girlfriend Heather and Shaun . Unlike Pete and Shaun, who went straight for the...
Bohemia Life (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Photo credit: solutionsoup on Apartment Therapy Earlier this week, venerable home decorating blog Apartment Therapy put together a great list of different ways to use pouffes in your home. Pouffes have had a lot of press recently ( ours were recently featured in the Times Saturday Magazine and Scotland on Sunday , and will soon be in Cosmo Bride !), and it's nice to see a creative round-up of different...
It's Me. (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Maybe I'm not the best film director in the land but I have a lot of fun with, http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/PhotoStory/default.mspx You can even add sound, so, sound on. Bothwell Castle is Scotland's finest 13th-century castle to be found at Uddingston. Craignethan dates back to 1530, 5 miles from Lanark. New Lanark, Scotland. A World Heritage site. The cotton mill owners...
I DREAM OF HAGGIS (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Lessons and Observations from an Immigrant Volume # 1203 Live as an immigrant is all about the Three A's: adjusting, acceptance and assimilation. Being a Canadian, I'm had it a bit easier than other immigrants as English is my first language and the Queen is still on our money (and Head of State in Canada). Nonetheless, I'm still perplexed by Scottish (British?) behaviour and customs. For example,...
Rector's Ramblings (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Found on Big Rab's Blog : "UNEXPECTED HEADLINES OF THE DAY: Commonwealth/Olympic Games Short of Budget (Insert name of currently unemployed football manager) Flattered to be Linked With Scotland Job Smith Linked With Scotland Job Colin and Justin/Jordan/Samantha Fox say “(Insert vacuous rubbish here)” Jedward (that’s enough headlines – ed.) On other pages: Bears Defecating...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
BUSINESS would be hit by a £500 million tax bombshell if Scotland had fiscal autonomy, a Treasury report has claimed.
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
BUSINESS would be hit by a £500 million tax bombshell if Scotland had fiscal autonomy, a Treasury report has claimed.
I DREAM OF HAGGIS (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Another observation to add to my list: Since moving to Scotland, I've noticed that in general, people don't seem to complain about the salaries of professionals - such as teachers. In Toronto, it seemed as if bitching about the pay of teachers was a past time. Indeed, any online article in the Toronto Star about teachers, seems to descend into mass hysteria and outrage over teacher wages. People, you...
Birkdale Lib Dems blog (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
We have been amazed at the response to our petition to save the Southport Library. On this occasion we have run an online petition to compliment the paper one. This has given people the opportunity to add comments. I produce below a selection: Many people come from overseas each year (mainly from USA & Canada) to do local and family history at the library. Only this week a man came from Bristol...
Little Lou's Knits & Nags (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Ladies and Gentlemen, you get the full range of emotions here at 'Little Lou's'..oh yeah. Yesterday I expressed 'trauma'..today I give you 'self pity'. Okay, truth is I'm feeling kind of sorry for myself because I got my Swine Flu vaccination today. Needle + arm = ouch. Once again I'm over dramatising (it's a talent), I've been through worse..it was only a jab..lol. I should be feeling quite fortunate...
Scotbytes Weblog (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
There must be thousands of accommodation properties in Scotland, judging from the many accommodation websites out there. And I'm sure there are perhaps hundreds of websites that offer links to (some or most) of these accommodations. That however was no reason for me not to start a new website with links to most of the Hotels, Bed and Breakfasts, Self Catering Cottages, Guest Houses and Campsites in...
FreeBetting (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
World Cup hosts South Africa enter this match with Carlos Alberto Parreira back in charge after Joel Santana was sacked and Bafana Bafana obviously want to record a win that would boost their confidence. Japan have qualified for the World Cup and this match will show where they are at the moment. Benny McCarthy is back Despite showing plenty of potential at the Confederations Cup, South Africa were...
Tocasaid (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
This week saw Edinburgh's much maligned cooncil publish it's Gaelic Language Plan. This has been a rude awakening to those in Dùn Eideann who claim that the city has absolutely no Gaelic history or present. These people include perennial bigots like the Tory Hibee and all round jakie John Gibson who has been peddling his drivel in the much declining local Evening News for longer than i can...
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