Oh Ed. We've had otters and squirrels on our banknotes in Scotland for years and it's lovely. The sky has not fallen. Rabbie Burns and Donald Dewar aren't turning in their graves. It's all good.
The thing I like most about this story is that uncomfortable shoes are just awful to wear. It's hard to think about anything else when you're preoccupied with blisters or shoes falling off.
That's a thing of beauty
Ah March in Scotland. The time when the morning goes from "lovely day for a walk!" to "oh, perhaps not" in the time it takes you to lace your boots up.
Some better news though...
*Sounds "The Frogs Have Arrived" klaxon*
I hear injecting bleach into the lakes is an option.
Ah right. Like when they said they had no intention of invading Ukraine?
A lichen covered gravestone featuring a memento mori - skeleton, scales and other symbols. Alloway Old Kirk, Scotkand
Another gravestone covered in moss and lichen and featuring a skeleton and elaborate carvings. Alloway Old Kirk, Scotkand
Interior of a roofless ruined church. In the middle is a large carved tomb. Outside, a large tree looms over the walls.
It's no wonder the stories Robert Burns was told about this place as a child scared the bejesus out of him and fired his imagination. You can well imagine Tam keekin through the window to see the witches dancing. Alloway Old Kirk.
There was a live report. But yes, it's going to cause major disruption. So many commuter routes as well as the main lines south.
It was on the national and local BBC news at 10
Do you remember when Trump and his gang bullied Zelensky about not wearing a suit to the White House and how disrespectful that was? Just saw Trump on the news receiving the returning dead US soldiers in a baseball cap.
My Glaswegian kids have no such excuse. What's wrong with a slice of square sausage in a well fired roll?
Ha. My younger son is away at university and sends me regular photos of his steak dinners (no wonder he never has any bloody money 🙄)
Me too. I was kind of dreading the teenage years and they were a complete revelation to me. Mine are 19 and 20 now and it feels like the end of a rather lovely era.
It is. But do you know teenagers, contrary to popular opinion, are also extremely excellent guys. I love their weird energy
I imagine Hegseth is just itching to press that button
Though not with coconuts on, admittedly
As a pedantic child in the 1970s, I'd have pointed out that there have been palm trees in the west Highlands of Scotland since before I was born. The Gulf Stream has always kept it mild enough to grow stuff there that wouldn't then have survived in the south east.
Finds self googling "can chickens fly?"
I used to love these when I was a kid!
Such a joyful movie! Even my then grumpy teens loved it when I dragged them to the cinema to see it.
Wanna lead Iran?
"Like going on holiday in an airport terminal" is the best description I've seen.
And yet somehow Zelensky is the bad guy. Go figure.
Absolutely agree. He can't ever win. Half the armchair commentators screaming that he's not doing enough and the other half screaming that he's doing anything at all.
I'm not sure Anthropic have thought this through (maybe they just asked their AI if it was a good idea to get involved?), because all the red flags are snapping for them being lined up as the fall guys here.
Maybe there's a pickled egg pop-up somewhere in downtown Shanghai, "inspired by my travels in Scotland"
I was once in a chipper in Kyle of Lochalsh when some extremely bemused Chinese students were wondering what they were. We got into conversation with them and explained how terrible they are but they bought one anyway, so hats off to them for bravery. I didn't get feedback.
I think I'd hand myself in to the zombies before I ate a pickled egg.
