I owe my neighbours an apology for the mess that’s cluttering up our road. If you pass, you’ll notice that there’s a big heap of unsightly rubbish outside our house. Mattresses lying there naked and flabby, plus the scrap metal that once held them aloft. There’s a reason for it, we aren’t embarking on a […]
12/365 Paisley with a patterned sky
Somehow this afternoon, while I wasn’t going swimming with the rest of the family (lax topiary issues) I was to hang around in Paisley while they frolicked at the Lagoon. I spent a little while browsing the reading matter – and an abandonned Daily Record and some tourist leaflets for the whole of the west […]
Neverseconds blogger Martha should lead the way at school
You’d have to have been living under a rock with no wifi to have missed this week’s story about Martha Payne. Nine-year-old Martha from Lochgilphead Primary started a blog called Neverseconds a couple of months ago that records what she had for lunch at school. Quickly it caught on, the prison-style tray-plates made the school […]
NIMBY or not NIMBY, that is the question?
Not the green space in question but one similar and nearby “That’s it. The village is ruined,” declared the man in the shop down the road. He had just finished telling the tale of dirty deeds and conspiracy that Machiavelli himself would have been proud of. You see, we – in our semi-rural bit of Renfrewshire – […]
Why football in our street is a balls up
Why football in our street is a balls up and Christmas on Bonfire Night It’s pouring down but my son is out playing football with his friends. He loves it, he sometimes even forgets to come for lunch and, eventually, turns up shivering and exhausted. This weekend the kids organised themselves into a tournament with […]