Made me laugh

I find animals in human clothes, poses or doing human activities hilarious. Imagine my joy then when I found this fantastic sign on my walk to work this morning. Brilliant. Have a good weekend all.

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The one where I talk about Mambo and Football

I’ve been very busy over the last few days hence the lack of posting. This busy period has been caused by my latest web project, Scottish Junior Football News which I’ve built using the Mambo platform. Not the most intuitive interface I’ve ever used. Wordpress is much better. However, the aim of the site is [...]

Copacabonkers

Wandering home down Leith Walk on Friday night, I couldn’t help but be gobsmacked by the new sign which has been erected at Pilrig Church, the ancient boundary of the old city of Leith before it was swallowed up by Edinburgh.
“Welcome to Leith. Twinned with Rio de Janiero.”
I can just imagine a load of Brazilians [...]

Cheerio Tony

Today marks the last full week of Tony Blair’s reign as Prime Minister. It’s been a turbulent decade, what with 9/11 and the Afghan and Iraq wars. Add to that the large number of British soldiers and Iraqi/Afghan civilians and it’s all a bit bleak to be honest. It remains to be seen how he [...]

Face like a welders bench/Eggstremely stupid

Every morning on my walk to work I buy the teams morning scones from a cracking wee bakers in Leith. Usually I’m served by a lovely wee old wifie who chats away as she butters the scone. However, it seems she is away on holiday this week and her replacement is none too cheery.
Upon requesting [...]

100 days in captivity

Wherever you are today, take 5 minutes to think of Alan Johnston, the BBC reporter in Gaza who has spent 100 days in captivity today. Alan is a fellow Scotsman, so I feel a particular affinity for the man.
The deteriorating political situation in Gaza recently has led to his captors threatening to execute him if [...]

Arise Sir Pigeon Slayer

Pigeons are wankers. Fact. If the animal kingdom could drive, they would be the pricks who speed up the outside of a queue of traffic and indicate in two places from the top when you’ve been stuck waiting for half an hour.
Except, pigeons can’t drive. It’s a wings + steering wheels + wee short legs [...]

Close call/The next Kenny Dalglish?

I really need to get more organised. This domain expired late yesterday and I didn’t even notice. It took an email from Sarah to let me know that the domain was showing a holding page. What kind of blogger would that make me. A crap one with no blog is the answer. So thanks Sarah.
In [...]

Heave awa lads

Ah’m no deid yet. For a minute at lunchtime I thought I had passed away. I was stood in the local sandwich shop and the girl served the two people behind me and ignored me completely. I was worried I had gone over to the other side, a la Patrick Swayze in Ghost.
More to the [...]

What we did on our holidays

We’re back from our holiday. Back to the grind so to speak. Anyway, I thought I’d share a brief(ish) synopsis of how it went.
Saturday morning, alarm at 5.40 am and on the road by 6.30. Drove all the way through the early morning mist to Cairnryan on the west coast, stopping briefly in Girvan for [...]

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