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For those who have been asking:Rummikub is a game for two to four players involving numbers rather than letters as in Scrabble. There is no board as such, but each player has to make runs of more than three numbers, … Continue reading →

Satire is very often the most incisive form of political comment. That's why I find the following so interesting: http://www.tomburka.com/  I would never dare to say such things.But they did make me laugh out loud.

Rummikub is good for the soul.

The Presiding Officer at our island polling station told me that the turnout here is always remarkably good. When I was there it was a little flurry – six of us in a queue. What a choice of candidates o­n … Continue reading →

The pictures in the paper show the shadow of Venus travelling across the sun. How nice it would be to see the sun. Apparently Scotland gets cooler, mistier weather because we are between the North Sea and the Atlantic. There … Continue reading →

The naturalised garden grows ever longer, and to my great delight wild flowers are starting to appear. They were always chopped off previously. Most of the grasses are now almost half a metre tall – apart from the part where … Continue reading →

Usually I am quite fond of spiders. At least as long as they are small and well-behaved. However, this weekend's adventure concerns a rather large and fast moving arachnid. It succeeded in running away from my bug-buster machine and hid … Continue reading →

The front cover of the Church of Scotland's Life and Work Magazine is graced with a hunky-looking Darius, (of Pop Idol fame). Whatever next? Apparently he prays every day and his Muslim father encouraged a Christian upbringing. The headline o­n … Continue reading →

I was sorry to hear of the death of Frances Shand Kydd, mother of Diana, Princess of Wales. Probably most of us here o­n the island have a story to tell of when we met her or how she seemed … Continue reading →

Yes – I am an ageing blogger, but I have been enjoying reading another over the last few weeks. Check out http://www.timegoesby.net/ for some thoughts o­n the baby-boomer generation. She has an interesting angle o­n what is happening worldwide as well as … Continue reading →