Set for a record low turnout for the local elections in Scotland... and given the choice we had in my own ward, I can't say that I'm surprised. The 3 candidates with the most votes will get seats...

...and we had 4 candidates in total. Two of them from the same party.

At least we're not - quite - at the stage of every candidate who stands being ( Read more... )

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17177053

It seemed appropriate to post this here. ;)

On myself: seriously woozy, with a particularly 'fun' past few weeks.  Still hoping to somehow find the energy to fix up the house and get it sold, so that we can move to somewhere that doesn't involve two hours of travel to get to and from any appointment (social ( Read more... )

Cross-posted to a couple of places, in hopes of tracking down as many as possible ( Read more... )

Heading South for a week to attend a family gathering of the in-laws ( Read more... )

Great news.  According to today's specialist (seen for the first time), because scans show nothing wrong that can be surgically altered, I must be physically fine and there was no reason at all for his predecessor (the head of department, till he retired) to have been seeing me ( Read more... )

This (and the rest of the extensive gallery) is worth a look: what would you be able to do with a sat-nav, a helium balloon, a digital camera, a polystyrene box and a parachute?  One inventively mad Brit used that ensemble to capture low-Earth orbit photographs that had NASA calling up to check if he was some previously-unknown rival in the space

The Anglo Saxon hoard discovered in Staffordshire is not set to be sold off and lost to the public....

See here for more.

I have now returned from my eight-day trip to Ireland ( Read more... )

As usual, I've almost entirely failed to get on top of the usual customs of the season (though I have at least managed to get presents for everyone I need to, I think), and therefore resort to the virtual world to offer up seasonal felicitations ( Read more... )

I have now, somehow, acquired myself a wife ( Read more... )