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  • Sending  young children to school

    23 June 2020

    Sending young children to school is absolutely the wrong idea. United Kingdom have the youngest school age in the world. It is as though the government believes that early years is there to short circuit normal child development as a way of boosting the...

  • Lockdown in Paris

    23 June 2020

    Lockdown in Paris Lockdown in Prague Lockdown in Berlin Lockdown in London Lockdown in Glasgow Lockdown in Krakow Lockdown in Kilcreggan Lockdown. Lockdown - Lockdown - Lockdown - Here we are. Here we are in Lockdown. Welcome to 2020. Welcome to 2020...

  • Rules for travelling by train

    22 June 2020

    Do not travel if you feel unwell or have a temperature. Travel away from the main commuting times (0700 – 0900 and 1600 – 1830) wherever possible, as trains will be busiest around then. The earliest and latest trains serve key workers, like NHS and care...

  • Covid-19 a technoauthoritarian Dark Age

    22 June 2020

    In stark contrast to the post war-settlement, which saw the beginning of a world of unprecedented egalitarianism, Covid-19 looks likely to mark the birth of a technoauthoritarian Dark Age - a new era of e-surveillance, racial segregation, digital ID certificates,...

  • Fashion face masks all around

    20 July 2020

    Face Masks have gone from PPE Wear to a Fashion Statement What started as a mere method of protection against COVID-10 (coronavirus), has turned into the fashion world’s latest trend. Face masks have been steadily gaining popularity, primarily for the...

  • Glasgow's botanic gardens.

    21 June 2020

    The sense of well being that is achieved through being around plants is greatly underestimated. I await, with enthusiasm the re opening of Glasgow's botanic gardens. Trees can hold such deep importance for so many people... Enjoyment of nature is always...

  • Saturday. A time to enjoy.

    30 June 2018

    Saturday. A time prepare for a trip on a river cruise. Holiday period is lovely to spend time. Fun with friends on the water. A few hours to slowly pass by. A day at the river is relaxing, the amusement park could be fun, other places of enjoyment also...

  • Cafe life

    20 June 2020

    Lithuania’s capital Vilnius drew attention at the end of last month when it announced plans to turn the city into a vast open-air café by allowing bar and restaurant owners to put tables outside for free while observing physical distancing rules. Since...

  • Outside picking some Bog myrtle

    20 June 2020

    Today been outside picking some Bog myrtle Bog myrtle is strongly aromatic and in the past, it was used to repel fleas and other vermin. In Scotland, it is well known as a way to ward off the Highland midge. The herb’s insect repelling properties have...

  • Covid19 - Flights - Tax - Crisis

    20 June 2020

    Throughout this crisis, the world has been given a chance to reflect on its actions and the effect they have on each other and the planet, especially in more developed nations. From London to Lahore, there have been significant increases in air quality...

  • old enough to be environmentally friendly

    19 June 2020

    I love that I'm old enough to be environmentally friendly by habit, having been brought up to avoid waste at all costs. (Mother brought up in the war, lessons passed down.) Keep old glass jars - handy fridge storage for small amounts of leftovers without...

  • What is a Butterfly?

    20 July 2020

    Butterfly. The butterfly is a beautiful insect with scaly wings. They have six legs and three body parts including head, thorax and abdomen. Their body is covered with a layer of tiny sensory hair. And with the help of their leg, they taste. They come...

  • Failures of leadership in England

    18 June 2020

    There have been four major tests of Johnson’s English leadership: Brexit, flooding, Covid-19 and the BLM protests. The results? Four abject failures of leadership. Brexit: He helped instigate it, manipulated it for self-empowerment, used it to create...

  • Charity shops and the Covid19

    18 June 2020

    Charity shops and the Covid19 Surely, if Covid19 has taught us anything, we have realised that we do not need wardrobes filled with unwanted and unworn clothes. Charity shops will have to diversify to survive. The global need to wise up on this throwaway...

  • Hard truth on immunity, vaccine or otherwise

    21 September 2020

    The hard truth is that until there is immunity, vaccine or otherwise, there will always be Covid in the community. There's people who don't seem to have understood that yet - that this is a highly transmissible virus and as long as there are people it...

  • The Templars Christian Bank for the Crusades

    17 June 2020

    The Templars , were a Catholic military order founded in 1119, headquartered on the Jersualem through 1128 when they then went to the Vatican The Templars founded a bank in London so as to finace the crusades Exploring the origins of the Templars also...

  • Pond life

    15 June 2020

    Pond Life Perhaps the recent rain has encouraged frogs to wander about more, as more of them seem to be discovering our tiny pond. It took quite a bit of thinking to work out how to fit one in, and I'm glad we did. What's particularly interesting is how...

  • Mobile phones have some downsides

    19 July 2020

    Mobile Phones: Things are negative 1. Distraction It’s so hard to work when your phone is tempting you to pick it up. 2. Interruption You’re trying to have a romantic date and yet are plagued by incessant calls and texts. 3. Cost That contract costs,...

  • today the car is king again -

    14 June 2020

    This time last month we were basking in the calm of a trafficless world, listening to the birds and cycling in empty roads. Sadly, far from the 'predicted' new normality, today the car is king again - and even more so now that people are actually being...

  • Music from Glasgow - Worldwide

    14 June 2020

    I watched a RSNO concert on their YouTube channel last night that I had actually been to live in Glasgow February it was great to see it from other angles but it made me sad to think that only a few weeks ago already seems like a lifetime away. How can...

  • Worms - Important - saving the earth

    19 July 2020

    worms have a vital role in the world These fantastic burrowing creatures are the living, breathing, engineers of the underworld, eating and recycling organic matter to keep our soil healthy. The intricate network of tunnels earthworms create below the...

  •  Goldfinch love sunflower hearts

    10 June 2020

    Goldfinch love sunflower hearts, but they seem to only eat the small pip and drop the rest onto the ground - where of course the fat, lazy, dumb pigeons are hanging around. We have 2 nests of Blackbirds over the fence so I like to put stuff on the ground...

  • Pleasure in crushing garlic cloves

    17 July 2020

    I love crushing garlic cloves with a pestle and mortar. You just start by tapping it gently until it starts to squash a bit, then bash a bit harder until it comes apart, before properly grinding it into a paste. So satisfying. Deglazing too, something...

  • covid-19 on all people's foreheads

    09 June 2020

    covid-19 The physical distancing is underpinned by a more worrying concern. The notion that others, even those we care about, are a threat to us. It's about trust. covid-19 We trust people we know and like. Even though we have absolutely no idea if they...

  • Sometimes I wonder if it's just me.

    17 July 2020

    Sometimes I wonder if it's just me. If I start a highly rated novel and find that I am not enjoying it, or a friend has recommended a novel and I find it unpalatable I tend to think I must be missing something, that there is something amiss with my reading....