Maybe because it’s summer, sunny and hot and it’s Christmas and there’s supposed to be cold and snow. Certainly because Walker’s shortbreads are sold everywhere but I know nothing compares to granny mck’s homemade ones: straight from the oven full of real butter, and made by love. Or maybe I am just still in culture [...]

….. To our mobile provider.
I have been Mrs. Maciphone since last year, and having so much fun using it. The first time I had it I didn’t really like it because it failed on basic mobile phone function, namely texting. It didn’t have a function to forward the message, let alone to copy and paste. [...]

Recession? What recession?
Some people are literally showered with money, and if you and your mega-rich friends have an extra million or two to spend, British newspaper’s The Sun’s has some ideas about the most opulent and OTT presents for Christmas this year:

Iphone 3GS Supreme, contains 271g of 22-carat gold and almost 200 diamonds. The [...]

The confirmation finally came when I was still enjoying my holiday in Indonesia. Yes, we’re moving to Perth, Australia (not Perth, near Glasgow!). The date was finally agreed. Yes, it’s 26 November. Lots of emails went back and forth about how we get there (they sent us a booking with Qantas, I wholeheartedly refused – [...]

Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi from Libya was jailed for murdering 270 people after Pan Am flight 103 exploded 31,000ft over Lockerbie (a Scottish border town), 38 minutes after take-off from London en route to New York in 1988. He is found guilty of murder after the historic trial under Scottish law in the Netherlands in 2001 [...]

I read in disbelief when Catherine Brown, the food write, revealed her discovery that haggis, a very unique Scottish dish, in fact, appeared first in an English cookbook 171 years before Robert Burns even mentioned it.
I was still in shocked when Allan Brown in his article “History Behind Scottish Myths”, on Sunday, August 9th, listed [...]

Haggis, a traditional Scottish dish, is – according to Wikipedia – made of the following ingredients: sheep’s heart, liver and lungs, minced with onion, oatmeal, suet, spices and salt, mixed with stock, and traditionally boiled in the animal’s stomach for about three hours. Today the dish is prepared in a casing rather than an actual [...]

If you read this today, I would have been somewhere in the sky between Aberdeen and London.
Hope you will forgive me as I am away – again. This time mr.mck and I will explore the south part of UK but I will be staying in London for several days first before he joins me this [...]

“If you feel you have been excluded from the Bible, please write your way back into it.”
The above notice, alongside with a container of pens, are put by the open Bible at an exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art (Goma) in Glasgow. The exhibit, Untitled 2009, was proposed by the Metropolitan Community [...]

I remember when I was in primary school I wanted to be an astronomer (looking for objects up in the sky), archaeologist (looking for objects down beneath the earth), or architect (building things up or down), when I grow up. The first two were clearly and highly influenced by reading too much Hergé and Agatha [...]

I was surprised that I haven’t mentioned about the biggest event in Scotland yet. Homecoming Scotland 2009 is a series of events designed to attract people of  Scottish ancestry to visit Scotland. The campaign, organised by EventScotland and VisitScotland on behalf of the Scottish Government, and part-financed by the European Regional Development Fund, claims that [...]

From The Telegraph.
Italian cartoonist Donald Soffritti imagines the later years of superheroes, with hilarious results. His brilliant cartoons have been collected into a book, available here.
Now, can you guess who they are?

NHS (National Health Services), the publicly funded healthcare system in the United Kingdom, believes that regular intercourse can be good for school pupils’ cardiovascular health and they have a “right” to an enjoyable sex life.

clipped from www.telegraph.co.uk
The advice appears in leaflets circulated to parents, teachers and youth workers and is meant to update sex [...]

The wife of the new head of MI6, Britain’s secret intelligent agency, has caused a major security breach and left his family exposed after publishing photographs and personal details on Facebook (foreign office staff are warned about using social networking sites when they join but MI6 advises its agents to maintain even [...]

Here is the selection of the best verbal slip-ups made by telly stars when they’ve been suffering from foot-in-mouth disease (article is taken from the Sun).
Racing commentator Ted Walsh: “This is really a lovely horse. I once rode her mother.”
US golf commentator: “One of the reasons Arnie is playing so well is that, [...]