D-Day 75 I have a small silver brooch in the shape of a Spitfire – I received it from a friend in the 90s and happened to pin it to my jacket last Thursday morning. As I stood at reception in Inverness’s Kingsmills Hotel, a member of staff commented on its appropriateness for the date… Read more »
Posts Tagged: BBC Radio Scotland
The loneliness of our society is in our hands.
How are you feeling as you read this? Are you looking forward to a fun-packed weekend watching the rugby with friends? Maybe you’re meeting family for Sunday lunch, have planned a dog-walk with a good pal or you’re heading out to a fitness class before eating your body-weight in cake with class-mates when it’s done?… Read more »
Could you be a Home-Start volunteer?
Home-Start need volunteers to give families a helping hand Our girls have left home now, both living in Glasgow, both presumably getting up to all sorts of shenanigans that I’d really rather not know about. But our parenting journey wasn’t always straightforward, and it doesn’t take much for me to remember how tough it occasionally… Read more »
Scotland deserves more from the BBC. Plus cocktail trainers. Really?
What can you buy for £2.30 these days? A cappuccino perhaps, but you wouldn’t be able to afford a muffin to go with it. Or you might just about stretch to a supermarket sandwich for lunch. If you were looking for entertainment you’d be lucky to get a third of a cinema ticket. But what… Read more »