The Crayfish Diaries: Rude News & Ill Thinking (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
(Meades: "Somewhere on the spectrum" according to my ever politically correct mother.) NOBODY happened to catch that ‘Jonathan Meades: Off-Kilter’ documentary on BBC4 last week, did they? Of course not, it was on BBC4. But if you had watched it, you might have been a little bit offended. Have a look on BBC iplayer and you’ll see what I mean. The show featured the verbose...
North Fife (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
As viewed from the North on the esplanade Kirkcaldy Fife Inchkeith (Gaelic: Innis Cheith) is an island in the Firth of Forth, Scotland. It is part of Fife. Inchkeith has had a colourful history as a result of its proximity to Edinburgh and strategic location for use as home for a lighthouse and for military purposes defending the Firth of Forth for attack from shipping, and more recently protecting...
Fife Icedogs (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Fife Icedogs are holding a fund raising race night on Fri 11th Dec 2009 @ the Elbow Room, Rosslyn St, Kirkcaldy. All the fun starts at 8pm. Race Sponsors are required at £20 per race. Horse Sponsors are required at £5 per horse. Tickets for the race night are on sale and can be purchased for £2 per person. We are also looking for raffle donations. There is also individual raffles...
swpp and bppa (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Leigh Armour has become a member of the SWPP the largest independent organisations for pro photographers. Their specialist fields of photographic expertise are: Wedding, Portrait, Children, Babies, Pregnancy, Proms, Charity Balls, Private parties, Freelance photographer, Special occasions, Studio portraits, Wedding services, Wedding Contemporary, Wedding Photojournalism, Civil Religious weddings, Storybook...
Jess The Dog (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
I used to live in Fife and I have lodged a complaint against Fife Council before. From my past experience, I am not exactly filled with confidence in their professionalism and integrity, but that's another story! Anyway, there has been a nasty story bubbing away for some weeks now. A Fife couple, Kerry Roberston and Mark McDougall, have been told their unborn child will be removed by social workers...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
THERE will be two massive games in Fife this weekend and Jim Leishman will be at both, one in his capacity as a Dunfermline director in Kirkcaldy and the other seeing him retu
Kirkcaldy's Scottish-Polish Group (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
On 3 rd October 5th Fife Scout Group Kirkcaldy held an open day to celebrate 100 years of scouting in the group. Children who were new to scouting along with ex scouts and scout leaders from the past were treated to display of scouting history from the past 100 years of the group, and also to display of campaign activities outside along with traditional cooking on open fires. Everyone enjoyed the day...
SUBROSA (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
For those of you who missed the comment by Stuart Dickson on my EU post yesterday, I will copy it here. Interesting motion on the Commons order paper for the end of business tonight ( last night* ): RULE 56 (1) OF THE PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION RULES [No debate] Secretary Jim Murphy That, in accordance with rule 56 (1) of the Parliamentary Election Rules contained in Schedule 1 to the Representation of...
Holiday Cottage Fife Scotland (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Fife Beaches The beaches of East Fife are wonderful for walks and wildlife throughout the year even when the weather is not so good. The Fife coastal path includes the beaches of Lower Largo, Aberdour Silver Sands, Anstruther Burntisland, Crail Roome Bay, Elie Harbour, Elie Ruby Bay, Kinghorne Pettycur Bay, Kingsbarns Cambo Sands, Kirkcaldy Seafield, Leven East Sands, St Andrews West Sands and St Andrews...
The Yellow Room Editor (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
I ’d been stressing for days about the fact I hadn’t got a ticket for the Val McDermid talk at Warwick Words. The online booking service implied the tickets had sold out. Anyway, I needn’t have worried, as a few days later my friend pointed out that the booking service was up and running properly again and hadn’t sold out. When we arrived at the venue on a cold Saturday evening...
Whitehall 1212 (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
Over the course of yesterday we were able to contact about 30 out of the 59 Scottish MPs to find out what Sir Thomas Legg had asked of them and to gauge their response. The list is reproduced below but bear in mind this is only about half of the Scottish cohort and that one or two were not willing to discuss details until they had responded to Sir Thomas. Danny Alexander, LD, Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch...
Dunedin Napier News (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
Fife born artist Jack Vettriano’s current exhibition documenting 100 years of the famous yacht the Tuiga is set to exhibit in the artist’s home town of Kirkcaldy early next year before travelling to London and Milan. Vettriano, 58, born Jack Hoggin, is Scotland’s best selling, and best known artist, he has painted this collection after being [...]
The Jaggy Thistle- Scotland the barbed (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
Scots soldiers seize 1.5 tons of marijuana Published Date: 07 October 2009 By Lucinda Cameron SCOTTISH troops have seized 1.5 tons of hashish during a three-day assault on an insurgent hot spot in Afghanistan. Hundreds of Black Watch soldiers swooped into Lakari in southern Helmand Province under cover of darkness, on a mission to clear a bazaar of drugs and ammunition. Two platoons engaged in fire...
Angry Bear (Free subscription) | 05/10/2009
rdan Adam Smith's Lost Legacy , a blog maintained by Gavin Kennedy who resides in Edinburgh, Scotland, is a wonderful gem to visit to take a thorough look at the broad extent of Smith's writings. He makes a wonderful defense of Adam Smith that rescues his reputation as a thinking man instead of the one dimensional character presented today. Is Adam Smith from Chicago or Kirkcaldy? We lose something...
SUBROSA (Free subscription) | 30/09/2009
This is not an analysis of Gordon Brown's speech but a criticism of this particular part: And I say this too; these are my values – the values I grew up with in an ordinary family in an ordinary town. Like most families on middle and modest incomes we believed in making the most of our talents. But we knew that no matter how hard we worked free education was our only pathway to being the best...
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