Welcome to Scotland
Did you bring your raincoat?
Monthly Archives: February 2008
BBC+Guardian=Danger?
Is this for real? Do people really think the BBC is a sinister left-wing organisation? (via) Goes without saying: After all, without the BBC, there’d be no Doctor Who.
Neverwhat? Neverwhy, Neverwhen, Neverhow, Neverwho, Neverwhere
One of my favourite authors, who is close to being favourite author of all time if he keeps being so cool, is releasing one of his already published books on the interwebs for free. For real, gratis. This is all in honour of his blog’s 7th birthday. He has put up an online poll to […]
Granola thumbprints
It’s been a wasted weekend. Work and sleeping off the effects of a cold have fettered my precious free time. That and 285 posts on the RSS reader. Must streamline. First to go will be the Scotsman feed; too much repetition. I’d already thrown out the right-of-centre blogs a few months ago, but was sucked […]
Pesky pre-primary pussyfooting
Any semi-regular reader (that’s you, you and you over there who reads the food posts) can guess on which arm of the political spectrum I lie. (Or quadrant, if left and right are too simple for you.) So you must have been rather pleased that I haven’t been inundating these pages1 with posts about the […]
Brill Breakfast Burrito
Nae baking the last two weekends. Hair cuts, new guitar and work have eaten up all my free time. But I’d like to take a moment to sing the praises of my favourite LaLaLand breakfast food: the breakfast burrito. Viewers of my photoblog on Flickr may remember the first burrito I had in LA, ship-sinker […]
Short walks in the Big Bear Valley
We’re not crazy climbers or munro baggers like quite a lot of people we know, but we enjoy walking. The longer the better, so long as there is chocolate in the bag. And while there are many possible hikes around LA, the ones we prefer were shut due to the wildfires last autumn, and have […]
Happy Year of the Rat
Some light entertainment to start the rodent-ious year:
akatsuki ra-ra-ra 