Saturday, April 05, 2014

Everything makes sense

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Pop Philosophy - so e verything makes sense in retrospect, even if there is no apparent reason for the event or it’s consequences. The conte...
Thursday, April 03, 2014

Let there be light

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I sing the body electric: The new wires are going in all around the house, lights and power points, switches and sockets, junction boxes ...
Wednesday, April 02, 2014

Global warming

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Politicians considering the impact of GW. There's nothing like a home brewed batch of Cantonese styled stir fry chicken to brighten ...
Monday, March 31, 2014

High expectations and low tides

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It came as some surprise to me to discover that eating a chilled pancake topped with caramel sauce was a rewarding experience. The cold p...
Sunday, March 30, 2014

High tides and low expectations

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The faulty ring pull on the can of cat food meant I had to open the tin with a regular tin opener. A process that the can clearly was not...
Saturday, March 29, 2014

Nothing remarkable

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Cat v pigeon. This afternoon we've pigged out on pizza, salad and Vichyssoise. The couch, which had been beckoning from a distance f...
Friday, March 28, 2014

Where all the money goes

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My granny's house, I owned this briefly in the 90's only to lose it over an ill considered hand in a Chinese card game. Typical.  ...
Thursday, March 27, 2014

Kirkcaldy and back to the wild

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Grey concrete abounds. The new pool and health complex, looks nice; stark and Cubist. Today my random journeys around Fife found me ...
Wednesday, March 26, 2014

East Neuk again

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Anstruther harbour entrance and Berwick Law. The remains of the seawater pool at Cellardyke.  Cellardyke harbour. A journey thro...
Monday, March 24, 2014

The illusion of control

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I'm thinking that I'm in command of this laptop but truly it's soul was bought over and chained up long ago, it's still a...
Sunday, March 23, 2014

Little Features

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Daydreaming is a peculiar habit to get into. On one hand it might seem creative and stimulating, an opportunity to get random thoughts in...
Saturday, March 22, 2014

Bad news

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Unexpected bad news puts everything else into perspective, all your moans, all your imagined  fears, all your petty dislikes and bundles of ...
Friday, March 21, 2014

Nature's Secret

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When I was small I'd hold my bare arm up above my head, clench in my fist and hide my fist and fingers and pretend that my arm was th...
Thursday, March 20, 2014

Thanks George

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Does anything ever really change? Thanks to the Tories for recognising that all that the hardworking families of the UK really need is Be...
Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Shocking and compulsive

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"This book is about leaving your wife and everything you know. It's about fresh starts, about love, about friendship. It is also...
Monday, March 17, 2014

The meaning of life

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Car Trouble

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I awake from the warm and familiar deep pit of weekend sleep. There may have been revelatory dreams happening somewhere but they escaped ...
Sunday, March 16, 2014

...then the taxi ran over the Ray-Bans

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Seafood is both fun and risky, that interesting tension between the succulent meat, texture and taste and sauce and all the mysterious in...
Saturday, March 15, 2014

A useful use for a useless item

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Inside we are all pretty much the same; unless of course you happen to be an artist. Smart Phone: The most useful part of the smart phon...
Friday, March 14, 2014

Dull as a house brick

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At one time there was a place that made bricks in the exotic location known as Hill of Beath in Fifeshire. I don't think that happens ...