The Sunday of a bank holiday weekend and I’m in the house alone doing some work – ahead of me lies shopping, cooking, weeding and, maybe even, ironing. But this isn’t a pity-me kind of post. It almost was, but it isn’t. I blame Facebook. A quick glance and I see that ‘everyone’ I know […]
Winter is coming: The chilling effect of Game of Thrones
You know something serious has happened when, despite the deadline clock ticking, you find yourself on a website that discusses the relative hotness of the male characters of a TV series. Furthermore, you catch yourself vehemently disagreeing with the opinions therein. Even if he wasn’t a psychopath, Joffrey Lannister wouldn’t muster tepid, let alone hot. […]
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PGL Dalguise: The kind of holiday that makes you rethink everything
It was risky, I’ll admit. I booked us a five-day break at PGL’s centre in Perthshire by way of a compromise. It’s very tricky finding something that will suit even some of us most of the time. There’s the 16-year-old culture vulture, his 14-year-old brother who only wants to go fast, the six-year-old with the […]