Today, I went to Alloa by train, making my first journey along the reopened section of the Stirling & Dunfermline Railway from Stirling to Alloa. From there, I walked along the old railway from Alloa to Dollar, which is now a walkway and cycle route. According to the map, it's only five miles from Alloa to Dollar, but my feet were extremely sore by ( Read more... )

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Bah! My day started off quite well, but got itself stuck in some very squelchy mud sometime around mid-afternoon. I decided to do something drastic to the old barnet, and only discovered I'd left my electric clippers down at my mother's bit when I'd snipped off all the hair on one side of my heid! So, not for the first time, I had to give myself a ( Read more... )

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Photos taken during a visit to Galashiels, Selkirkshire, on 4th July, 2012.


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From the BBC News web-site: Tony Robinson asks if bankers are human. The thing that really pisses me off is that banks are now a collective monopoly which has total control of our money whether we like it or not. Perhaps if we were still allowed the choice to keep our own cash in our own wallets, they might not have got away with stealing £billions ( Read more... )