January 2011 - Posts
Film, Alain de B, Football and Guiness
Seen two films in the last week - 127 hours and also The King's Speech - at Eden Court Theatre in Inverness. A great venue to watch a film, by the way - very comfortable. Both films are up for Oscars so I feel very up to date film wise at the moment...
Back to front chainsaw chains, Hamilton Academicals, Slow Website and more stuff....
Chainsaws - did you know that you can put a chainsaw chain on the wrong way round. I didn't, but I do now! Football - Inverness play Hamilton tomorrow in Inverness. Plenty of layers of clothing required, my new wooly hat and a pie of course from their...
I blame the Bankers!
Not a bad day for gardening today, although my second attempt to clear mole hills from someone's lawn was thwarted by the fact that the mole hills were still frozen - concrete mole hills. Most frustrating. I blame the bankers! The coalition of Liberal...
More Snow Forecast, PDF Formats, Duran Duran and Dead Ducks
Finally some good weather appears - so it was back to the gardening today. The weather forecast for tonight, however, is more snow! On my travels about the local district I had the radio on and was attempting to avoid listening to Duran Duran. I switched...
Gardening, Goats and Golf Balls
Gardening, Goats and Golf Balls - the latest January 2011 article is HERE And the 'Old' book - how to make your garden profitable - is HERE Read More...
New book/Old book, Concrete mole hills, Wood burning stoves and rapidly diminishing oil reserves.
With thoughts turning to a new book this summer, I have added a link to the 'old' book' that was published in 2002 and still for sale via amazon (and still with my name mis-printed on the front cover, so a valuable first edition of course...
January Ramblings
The snow has gone and garden work has recommenced, although I believe the snow may return tomorrow! A gift received in the post today from my old mate Dave - a calender with pictures of football grounds on it. Cheers Dave. Dave is an author and has written...