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We’re having all our windows replaced. It was long overdue—they were very old, some of the frames were rotten, and one was basically held together with a twisty tie and a rolled-up towel laid across the join to keep the wind out. Things had got so bad the Council proposed we change the name […] 
I had a blood test the other day—well, I say a test, in fact I’ve had three in the last few weeks. The first time they didn’t get enough, the second they didn’t like the look of, so it was back to the surgery on the basis of third time’s the charm. Alas, […] 
I was intrigued to discover recently that, under the Salmon Act of 1986, it’s illegal to handle a salmon in suspicious circumstances. Of course, this means you can be arrested for handling potentially stolen goods and not, presumably, using a salmon as a tennis racket or playing it like a banjo. But it did […] 
I’m usually quite fond of tempting Fate – in small things, I mean, where it doesn’t really matter if Fate decides to teach me a jolly good lesson. I’ve learned that my rational self is little more than skin deep, and I’m actually rather superstitious: bad things do come in threes, I don’t […] 
In Twelfth Night, Feste, an experienced weather forecaster, declares that “The rain it raineth every day”. But while this is usually a pretty fair description of Caithness in early summer, right now the ground’s parched. It hasn’t rained for weeks, not that proper, solid, god-fearing presbyterian rain where it just falls all day dripping […] |
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