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Climate

Hi guys, grandkids of five, a random input touching on the topic that is humongous in the scheme of our world and lives at the moment.   ‘Climate change’ is the spray on term that as ever comes from lazy newspapers and describes a context that the world, yep, the...

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Kick the poor down the road – they are already down there.

Hi good children, if you never read this, did it really happen? Did the tree fall in the forest? I didn’t hear it. Or did I?   This is 1st June - a late contribution, I’ve been ill for a while so I’ve got some catching up to do- the matters referred to here are a...

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WORLD CUP FOOTBALL 2022

And the rest of mind boggling football attachments….   THIS IS THE 17TH DECEMBER 2022, the date of the ’22 world cup final between France and Argentina. The apex of the mountain where 32 clubs attempted to climb to the top. The first time the completion was held...

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Tales of another place

Tales of another place. When I was boy, a few years older than you are now - its 2022 guys, do the sums….I encountered a few relatives as our dad took us to places - not many, but a few. Later on I found out that it was usually to ask for help with ‘living’, getting...

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Ubuntu

Ubuntu, what?   Hello guys, its November, I’m behind due to additional work needed for the Tim Stead Trust, more of that later, soon!   I came across this wee article, much trimmed, that I am familiar with through work, oh, maybe 40 years go. I was keen...

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Ringing a Bell

Hi guys, hope you are all ok? First thing, yer grandad loves you, no question. I was smiling with you the other day when you were singing along to Alexa on the ‘device’. You were singing songs from that movie about the snow - what’s it called? As well as ‘The Wheels...

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FOODBANKS – A MEMORY LANE

Hi Kids this FIRST PARAGRAPH is an extra bit before I send it off for website use.   2 days ago Queen Elizabeth 2nd died age 96. I mention this because it’s a big deal for many in Scotland and the United Kingdom and further afield. I was born in 1955, she became...

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FOODBANKS

Hi guys I hope all is well. I say this because, without exaggeration, the United Kingdom is falling apart - or probably more accurately, is being crumbled apart by a Conservative government who knows that if they keep people oppressed, whether by poverty, basic need,...

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Ringing a Bell!

Hi guys, hope you are all ok? First thing, yer grandad loves you, no question. I was smiling with you the other day when you were singing along to Alexa on the ‘device’. You were singing songs form that movie about the snow - what’s it called? As well as ‘The Wheels...

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FIRSTS

There’s nothing new in the world, people often parrot.   It’s been done before, maybe decades ago? Anyhow it’s not new. That joke you heard, made up by your pal, she claims, was heard by another pal last week in the school…..and so on!   Doing ‘it first’,...

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