The announcement on Wednesday that the UK government, through the hilariously named, “North Sea Transition Authority” (NSTA) has given the go ahead to the Rosebank oil field is exactly the wrong thing to be doing. It shows a callous disregard for future generations. We need to leave the oil in the ground and move to […]
Read more "The Party’s Over."I was challenged to a fight last Wednesday. A pot-bellied bedraggled black Toyota tail-gated me up the road as I cycled home from work, horn blaring intermittently. This on a residential street crammed with parked cars, with nowhere for me to go to allow him past. Sadly this is fairly average, what happened next, not […]
Read more "Cars and Freedom"NB. Written with a head full of cotton wool and itchy eyes. Brain probably not sparking at it’s best. The inevitable has a habit of happening. Second week back at school after the winter break and it did, I tested positive for Covid for the first time. Amazing I’d avoided it for so long, spending […]
Read more "Positive Pondering"Happy New year! Lang may yer lum reek! Aw’ the best an’ that! Perhaps a little late, but Myshele and I have been having a little digital detox over the last few days, clearing our minds for the fun that 2022 will bring. I post this today as a spur to myself to try and […]
Read more "Here we go!"Wednesday 5th April – Harestanes to Morebattle Up about 7 and shower and organise, tag team breakfast today as there are other folk staying again, me at 7:45 then Myshele. Leaves us plenty time to be ready for Chris coming at 9:30 and we head back though blustery sunshine to Harestanes craft courtyard where we […]
Read more "Borderland: St Cuthbert’s Way, Part 2"Chapter 2 – The Speyside Way Part 1 I almost titled this chapter, “The Whisky Way”, because it’s really what the Speyside way is about, really, despite the official website describing it like this: “The Speyside Way is one of four official Long Distance Routes in Scotland (the others are the West Highland Way, the […]
Read more "Borderland: Speyside Way, Part 1"An apology. I didn’t make it down to Glasgow the other Saturday for the Independence march. Fair play to all who did, looked like a soggy, exuberant, noisy day. 80,000 is an impressive turnout, think that might be the biggest march yet? Certainly up there with the biggest ones in the ‘14. I do have […]
Read more "Saturday with the Rebels"The return to work is upon us after a break that’s allowed me the usual luxury of more time to walk, read, think and write. Here’s what countless articles and a couple of books on the IPCC, bush fires, floods in Indonesia, Naomi Klein, David Graeber, Brexit, the Labour Party and a Green New Deal […]
Read more "Distilling a Direction"Sorry for the gap in service folks, gonna try and remedy that a wee bit this year. The teens have been a strange decade. Starting with the fall out from the financial crisis, the hope of Occupy and the Arab Spring rolling into the campaign to break up the British state. Then the twin foghorns […]
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