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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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’,...

Hi guys, Grandad here, how are you? I’m thinking I haven’t seen you for a wee while, so need to catch up - will do soon!   Quite by accident I came across an online message today that brought to my, somewhat surprised attention, that on the day, 24th June, 1977,...

The whole of the middle classes, Talk out of their tweeded asses, Whilst raising their claret glasses, Patronising the minimum waged.   Here is a bag full of sweets, See what bills they will meet, Keep you shaking on your feet Until we add to the poverty crisis.....

Hello guys, Hope you are all in grand form, wherever and however you are….   I’m just back from a week in the Highlands, taking part in a writing week - they call it a retreat - an opportunity to spend some protected time to pursue the writing that you may be...