It’s freezing cold outside this morning. At 8.30am the garden is still minus 10C or 10F, the garden is covered in frost and ice and a pale blue stretches across the horizon with a very weak and watery like pale yellow sun is poking up above the horizon. Funnily enough the weather in NW Scotland… Continue reading Apricity – The Warmth of Winter Sun
Month: November 2016
From the prehistoric to the merely ancient
I’ve had a busy old week and been unwell for longer so was unable to write at all so I hope this collection of photos which I took on Thursday. It was a very windy day and the temperature was not much above freezing but it did mean we had everywhere to ourselves. I hope… Continue reading From the prehistoric to the merely ancient
John “Mad Jack” Mytton – The craziest man in history!
John Mytton is one of those colouful characters that make history, especially British history such an interest affair. It’s always nice when one comes across someone who was totally nuts and I always look at them with a slight mix of jealousy and admiration and just a little astonishment. Of course history is littered with… Continue reading John “Mad Jack” Mytton – The craziest man in history!
Arrival – Movie Review
It’s a long time since I wrote a film review adn that is partly because I’ve been too busy to watch many and those that I have seen, have not really been worth the effort to write about but Arrival is definitely something very different. Last Sunday afternoon I had spent several hours of it… Continue reading Arrival – Movie Review
Stonehenge At Dusk
I don’t usually do simple photo posts but in Thursday on one if my guided tours, we happened to be at Stonehenge at dusk. Due to the latitude of the British Isles, dusk can be anything from about 11pm in mid summer to 3pm or earlier in mid winter. Around 1.5 million people visit Stonehenge… Continue reading Stonehenge At Dusk
The Last Post
It is one of the most evocative and moving pieces of music and as with every year, The Last Post will be played all over the world on Remembrance Day but its origins had nothing to do with mourning. The Last Post was first published in the 1790s, just one of the two dozen or… Continue reading The Last Post
Trump Vs Clinton….who cares?
So today, voters in the United States of America go to the polls in their general elections. A contest between two of the least likable or worthy people I have ever come across, to think that either candidate is the most talented or worthy person in a nation of over 300 million people is entirely… Continue reading Trump Vs Clinton….who cares?
The Great Scone Debate – How to say it, how to eat it!
Never let it be said that I don’t tackle even the toughest subjects on my blog. Tpday it’s one of those questions that have divided people through the ages, even more so than Brexit, Turmp Vs Clinton or brown sauce and red sauce. It is of course, how do you pronounce that most English of… Continue reading The Great Scone Debate – How to say it, how to eat it!
Stephen Liddell 