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We need a preventative strategy like New Zealand's to deal with outbreaks rather than a numbers game played between health officials and politicians. It's tiring watching political leaders 'react' to numbers daily and claiming this provides evidence on...
I could never understand why people complain about snow and long nights. The changing seasons are wonderful in the way everything is transformed. A crisp winter day is invigorating and the snow is beautiful in the way it settles on twigs and branches....
“I’m so sad that the Edinburgh fringe isn’t happening this year. For those unfamiliar, it’s the biggest arts festival in the world. It’s also the most diverse arts festival in the world – it’s got people from literally all over north London.” “How many...
Scottish heather honey is creating a buzz in foodie circles after being declared the world’s latest superfood. Research into the health benefits of honey made from Scottish heather shows that it contains ten times more manganese than at least 200 of its...
What Are The Basic Components Of A Beehive? Bees need a warm, secure and dry place to live. In the wild, bees make their nest in a variety of places such as hollow trees and holes in rocks. The beehive was developed to make it easier to manage a colony...
It might seem strange to order bees before you get everything else together for beekeeping, but it's important because most places don't have bees for sale by the time spring is well underway. January is the time to order your bees for shipment or pickup...
The purpose of the masks is to protect each other. So you wearing your mask reduces the risk of you infecting others, while them wearing their masks reduces the risk of them infecting you. Plus, all of us wearing masks in shops and other outlets helps...
Swifts are amazing creatures - they migrate from Europe to Africa and back every winter, they cruise at 70mph and in a lifetime they might fly a distance equivalent to three return trips to the moon. There is some question about where swifts actually...
As we brush up against October, we are still waiting for our first hard frosts of the year. In years past, we could have had snow by now. It is so much milder now. But the snows will come soon enough and there’s not a lot happening in the garden. Just...
The problem with most of these cycle paths in England is the surface. They might be traffic free but they are rarely paved, or only for short sections and as such they are hard work, with mud, ruts, roots and rocks to ride over. Contrast that with Holland...
Science is about evidence, not belief. I think this awful pandemic has realigned a lot of people as to what is really important. If has brought out the best and worst in us. It is giving us time to reflect. We are nowhere near as invincible as we thought...
Facebook is a toxic influence in our societies. If our democracies ultimately fail this century it will be in no small part due to social media undermining truth and responsibility. Corporations have no loyalty to any form of government except that with...
From time immemorial, people used to sit by the fire to tell stories, tell each other about distant lands, about interesting heroes, unusual events, about the spirits of ancestors. These meetings tightened ties and made people together In this time we...
Therapeutic Benefits of Herbal Honey Although delicious drizzled over many lovely things herbal honeys are more than just culinary delights. Herbal honeys are profoundly medicinal – and they taste great. When herbs are infused into honey, the honey absorbs...
The Hedgehogs only real wild enemy is the Badger slug pellets are lethal to hedgehogs and be very very careful where you put rat poison. I have at least two visiting hedgehogs,I put high fibre cat biscuits and water out for them. I used to have one living...
The case for Scotland leaving is likely to get even stronger when, as seems likely, a no deal or a very weak deal delivers our country into the hands of a strong deal with the USA. This is, for many of us remainers, what the more extreme of the Brexiteers...
People working from home don’t need more shops around where they live because they can buy everything they need (and a lot more superfluous stuff) from the comfort of their home. The lockdown also created a revival of home prepared food. Why spending...
I suppose it starts with the awareness of how incredible, mysterious and inexplicable it is to exist, and then to be aware of that existence... in whatever form that awareness takes hold. Imagine how we would (initially) behave if someone invented a perfect...
For a good life, we need conversation and laughter. We like to live well, feel cool, do things we enjoy. However, recent months have shown us that not only the small pleasures that we have learned to indulge are important to our well-being. Our postpandemic...
Nature’s an opportunist We try to be in control Distance and rows recommended Nature ignores them all Our lawn is now a meadow Wild plants in control Blue speedwell in the springtime With dandelions on call The mauve of wild mallow Trying hard to grow...
A German, has revived Liverpool. He has an understanding what football means to him. As Cruyff did. He was given the freedom to follow it 100%. He was given time to fulfil this dream. There can be no one on this planet loving football not adoring the...
A minister’s son from Cardross was one of the leading campaigners for the abolition of slavery, a 19th century Rosneath minister treated a former African slave as an equal, and in around 1820, a slave escaped to Helensburgh from an American trading ship...
The roses I have in pots on the patio from cuttings I took a couple of years ago are not doing very well, yet the very old original plants in the garden seem to have been rejuvenated lately and have been flowering well. I did some dead heading yesterday...
The very bad thing about this is that the government won't be able to do anything going forward as people just won't listen due to the government's own response to lockdown. A lot of those who had faith in the government lost it when they so staunchly...
In Scotland, the water quality is excellent, and a test is taken somewhere every two minutes on average. Our water & sewerage bills are included in our council tax bills, based on your band rating, and ranges from £ 298-£896 pa, working out at an average...
