All the fours – 444

Happy Birthday Wullie Today is the four hundred and forty fourth anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare.I first encountered…

Old and New

Fifty First Timer No.12 Visit the Smith Institute, Stirling. (Now named Stirling Smith Museum) It has been my ambition to…

Sun and Snow

The perfect combination? (not quite) (photos Colin Baird) Here is my sister Liz and me on the steep snowy slope…

Toys, books and blogs

My new toy Fifty First Timer No.11 Build and stock a greenhouse Before I receive another ticking off for stretching…

Irrational Fears

Fifty First Timer No.10 Catch a spider I know it may not sound much but it is for me. I…

Easter at the Ben Nevis Inn

No Room at the Inn Fifty First Timer No.9 The forecast was ominous, snow and stormy winds. Ben Nevis, Britain’s…