This is my youngest son's latest music video. He and his friends are quite involved in the Scottish Hip Hop scene and they are all really creative and put out their stuff with zero money and a lot of mutual support. He has been lucky enough to be a support artist for Jeru the Damaja and Souls of Mischief and a good few others. He is playing at a ( Read more... )

At last.

I was in Morrisons supermarket yesterday. I picked up a pack of cream doughnuts that my mum likes. It was the last pack and I thought she'd be glad if I got them for her because she was having friends round for a cuppa. A tiny and ancient old man walked very slowly towards me, stopped, looked right in my face, and took them from me. I was too ( Read more... )

Having been chosen as a World Book Night book giver, I am busy making a list of people that I would like to pass the book I have chosen on to. I have decided that it would be good idea to give a copy to a few libraries, especially the library in Muirhouse, which was my local library until I was 12. When I was little, my dad used to take me. He was ( Read more... )

It's always a funny month , January. The come down after Christmas and New Year, and the long stretch of the year ahead...I dunno, it makes me feel a bit lonely and a tiny bit low. It isn't the weather or the darkness. It's just the stretch ahead ( Read more... )

Watched a documentary on Muchael Ruppert last night, called 'Collapse'. I'd highly recommend it.

It's a bit late I suppose, but I'd like to wish everyone a Happy 2011. I haven't posted anything for ages but I have been reading all the posts of the people on my flist ( Read more... )

It's been a funny old time for me lately. I mentioned before about some life changing problems I have had with my partner of the last nearly 20 years. These problems have had the strangest effect on me. I'm usually someone who writes stuff all the time...just for myself, really...little intersting ( at least to me ) bits and bobs, letters, emails ( Read more... )

I haven't been on LJ for an absolute age. I have had a lot of difficult things to contend with lately ( haven't we all ? ) which has made it seem difficult for me to post on here about anything people might even remotely want to read ( Read more... )

My oldest son, Matthew, has gone to London for 3 months, to work at the Udderbelly at South Bank. He left today with two of his best friends, who are also working there...one of them is the assistant manager ( Read more... )