Optimism shocker

One of the headlines on the BBC website today is the earth-shattering “Poll suggests Iraqis ‘optimistic’”.
It then goes on to give a countless number of percentages on how things have changed throughout the country. “What counts is how the individual groupings, Sunni, Shia and Kurdish, feel – and especially the Sunnis, since much of the [...]

Small minded people

Miserable weather again today and walking back from my lunch spotted what is certainly one of my pet hates. Small people with big umbrellas – what the hell are they thinking? Walking up and down Union Street, the busiest street in the North of Scotland – either completely oblivious of their own stupidity or simply [...]

Blogging on

I must admit, before putting pen to keyboard for the first time on here I began to feel slightly nervous about putting my feelings and/or thoughts ‘out there’ – wherever the hell ‘out there’ actually is. Why be nervous though? – it’s not as if anyone other than myself and a couple of mates (I [...]