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2021-02-28 18:11
GHOSTS
I’m down visiting a pal in Glasgow. He rents a bottom floor flat of a large Victorian townhouse and as I’m waiting for him in the shared hallway, I start to peruse the… Read More
2020-03-01 12:07
ABERDEEN (FRIDAY 5TH OF JULY)
My Satnav takes me straight into the heart of Aberdeen City Centre which is a lot more built up and confusing than I’d anticipated. At 6pm the streets… Read More
2020-02-11 11:11
EDINBURGH (FRIDAY 21ST OF JUNE)
The spirits must have known I was coming to Edinburgh tonight as they sabotaged my Sat-Nav and got me hopelessly lost after the Forth Road Bridge. Added to… Read More
2020-02-03 19:46
PERTH (FRIDAY 7th OF JUNE)
My next night of mediumship on Saturday night in Stirling had been cancelled at short notice so I had to scramble for another within the next week. Luckily, the… Read More
2020-02-01 12:39
DUNDEE (FRIDAY 31ST of MAY 2019)
I arrive at the Queens Hotel around 6.30 pm with an hour to spare so I park up around the back. It’s a balmy night and the concrete buildings and ta… Read More
2020-01-28 15:21
‘The lady spent a lot of time alone before passing?’ asks the Irishman.
‘Yes’ squeaks the woman.
‘Can I reiterate that she wore pink, I know I&rsquo&hell…Read More
2020-01-28 15:21
‘The lady spent a lot of time alone before passing?’ asks the Irishman.
‘Yes’ squeaks the woman.
‘Can I reiterate that she wore pink, I know… Read More
2019-03-03 21:43
Hurghada
lies on the east coast of Egypt, across from the more popular resort of Sharm
El Sheikh just where the Gulf of Suez is absorbed by the Red Sea. Saudi Arabia
lies further east glower… Read More
2019-03-03 21:36
Where are all the Bees?
Monday
Monday morning in Highland Perthshire is as quiet as quiet can possibly be. The locals are still rising, no cars are on the streets, even the bir… Read More
2018-08-14 18:58
On Thursday 1st of February 1829, Andrew Longair was three days shy of his twenty second birthday and living in Scotland’s capital city. As he set about completing the last of his long… Read More
2018-05-10 17:53
The man’s trainer edged his head around the shower room wall and called out:
‘Your guy’s in a bad way, he’s been put into an induced coma, doctor says there’s… Read More
2018-04-03 16:43
GHOST TOWN
A ‘splashdown’ is an evasion technique used by narco-traffickers when crossing the border of Mexico and the United States. When the traffickers are discovered then pur… Read More
2018-02-07 12:42
The dog’s howling awakened him immediately. He turned to the clock and noticed it was far earlier than the usual morning rouse so he curled back into the duvet and tried ignore the no… Read More
2018-01-27 18:04
After 3 months in Quito I was eager to escape its urban din and cross those mountains that looked down upon me every morning. Large cities become very similar no matter what continent you a… Read More
2018-01-21 12:03
Maria was late and still had to cross the city. She had crawled into her pit four hours before still drunk from a house party but luckily the clunk of the letter box had awoken her shallow s… Read More
2014-10-16 21:44
Its not so much our relative success in the opening fixtures of the 2016 qualification campaign but the way we are doing it that is really pleasing. Gordon Strachan has instilled a confidenc… Read More
2014-07-27 18:28
One month after the World Cup and the pang for decent football is beginning to kick in. After soaking up the football festival in the true home of the beautiful game I will have to exist on… Read More
2014-07-16 15:40
One of the funniest things I saw in Brazil was not in a stadium or on a football field but on the TV.
As you can imagine the TV stations had wall to wall coverage of anything remotely relate… Read More
2014-07-16 11:53
2014-07-16 11:21
Over a week after the German hammering of Brazil and the sheer shock of the result is only now beginning to fade however it will take a fair few months, if not years for the Brazilians to sh… Read More
2014-06-23 02:05
Tomorrow is my 3rd live game and it may be the best of all.
Although the Costa Rica result was amazing against a poor Italy it wasn’t the best of games and the Italian fans were neithe… Read More
2014-06-23 01:50
It took a couple of days of sharpening but the knives are finally out for the under performing England stars. Harry Redknapp’s latest claim of reticence for Internationally picked star… Read More
2014-06-17 17:26
It’s not wonder everyone is half daft over here. If you stay inside the mosquitoes terrorise and torture you without mercy, attacking any skin or hint of bone with a brutally efficient… Read More
2014-06-17 16:31
After a day catching up with my sleep and getting my bearings Saturday was the first chance to get some proper game experience. First up was Uruguay vs Costa Rica and while i caught the majo… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Remember when you passionately cared about the World Cup mascot? Me neither. But I suppose its some sort of tradition from way back, give the kids something to cheer about. To be fair I like… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
As far as shocks go it couldn’t have been bigger or better. On paper the holders had little to fear against the Africans especially when the Indomitable Lions lost Andre Biyik to a str… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Many may not admit it but it would terribly boring to see the Spanish win another trophy on the trot, even if they are the most pleasing on the eye. The slick inter-passing and pressing game… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
For many Group B has claimed the title of “the Group of Death. It certainly looks like that for the Ozzies. Group B Spain, Netherlands, Chile, Australia At first look it seems it will… Read More
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