LEAVIN’ HOME!! NEVER NINE TO FIVE.   As I’ve hinted at in a couple of other columns, people my age and around are passing on - it’s an age thing, some sooner than others - take us by surprise - what they all have in common is that they have their own beloved...

Hi guys, in this week where Sandy is, aaaaaaaaargh, 21 years of age and I hope experience, Alba is 9, Breagha is 7. Anna is 7 and Faye is 4, maybe 5 soon….you are all getting on with life.   However along the equator and lay lines there are some not so good...

Well guys, it’s August 2026, weather being the headline of the month - and July past - but here in Melrose it’s been surprisingly ‘cool’, like me I guess!!   There are loads of things going on that are frankly low rent and shitty! Many involving people who should...

Festivals, hip hip!   Ah, grandkids,   Festivals!!! The best and usually the greatest value there is to give you laughs, tears, new experiences and fabulous memories to share. There are all sorts of festivals. Music…where maybe your top band is playing in a...

Hello fine clan Macleod/Marshall…..it’s Saturday 13th June and Scotland are about to play their first WORLD CUP game in competition for 28 years…..which we hear from the BBC every 5 minutes - God, their pundits are awful!   It’s in the USA.   Anyhow here...

Happy new year as we limp into 2026 and peer ahead through the mist of, well, everything including all the rotten things we have created in the last period of time - politicians and greedy citizens to be given loads of the blame!!!   Sandy, Alba, Anna, Breagha...

My Rock Stuff (2)   Well, it’s such a sore area - what we all like in the music scene. I’m no afficianado or expert but as a friend said,’I know what I like’.   I met a few music snobs along the way. You will too. Hmmmmm. Begone folks!   Kids I hope you...

ALL MY ROCK STARS ARE DYING (1)   Towards the end of 1969 I bought a ticket for a movie called ‘WOODSTOCK’ at the ABC LOTHIAN ROAD, Edinburgh.   Woodstock, a place in high New York, USA, based in Max Yagurs farm, forever to live in the popular music parlance...

Hello fine grandkids, how’s things wherever you are? We are just into September 2025 here on planet earth. The headlines don’t change much - war, death, famine, political lies and greedy rich people. The biggest shame is our lack of work towards any meaningful action...

January is a miserable month, all downhill, bad luck or so the empty papers and radio news reports say.   On Monday 20th January it’s called blue Monday, worst day of the year, so says the media? Well today is the day that Donald Trump, an odious human being will...