It just hit 30c in the shade, which might be a May record for this part of the Scottish Highlands.

Post office and chemist trip completed, I actually saw somebody wearing a mask in comrie. There were two nurses in the chemists wearing facemasks, the girl behind the counter was masked up, and the two pharmacists in back had PPE gear on ( Read more... )

Damn, just watched the American police arrest a (black) American reporter and his American film crew for absolutely no reason. Live on air ( Read more... )

The Cummings saga so far ( Read more... )

Well that was frustrating, I went for a walk and took metal detector with me and found absolutely nothing but some garbage. Was coming back home across the field and got a really strong ping. And thought, oh, okay, this is the strongest ping I've had all day, I might as well do one last dig. So I dug, and there was nothing there, but a faint beep ( Read more... )

41 more days for Boris to ask the EU for an extension on Brexit, and then 183 days for them to do any negotiating or planning at all, until car crash harder than hard Brexit wipes out the UK once and for all.

Stockpile like fucking crazy folks. The Tories are gonna crash us.

Oh that's grand, the governments new scientific advisor is certain that they did a thing they didn't do to control coronavirus on the 30 of February. He saw the imaginary memo with the imaginary instructions on the imaginary day ( Read more... )

Just reading about how a book of Scottish witches from the 16-1700s has just been put online, and I'm reminded of the last witch in this area to have been killed, the witch of Monzie ( Read more... )

So apparently the cinemas are going to open up again, because obviously what you want to do in a Pandemic is sit in a room with a hundred strangers breathing the same air as you. But what are they going to show given all the big summer movies have been cancelled ( Read more... )

I profoundly dislike how it has become a radical political statement to simply say: 'Be kind'.