Like you, I know right from wrong. I’m not saying I’m always on the brightest side of that open doorway but I do what I can. The combination of permanent size four goodie two shoes and a conscience of which even the whistliest of crickets would be proud was more than enough to instil in me the genuine desire to … Read More
A Mir 23 minutes
23 minutes. It doesn’t sound like a long time, does it? Well, I guess that’s because it isn’t. Think about it, what meaningful, life-changing thing have you done in the last 23 minutes that will forever impact on the lives of those around you and the course of history? Me? Unless that three month-old yoghurt I just binned from my … Read More
The myth of fingerprints
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been lucky enough to spend some time behind the scenes with Police Scotland, following the application process that hopeful recruits pass through when joining the ranks. My forms filled in, the fitness test – almost – passed, and my questions answered at a candidate briefing session, it was time this week to take my … Read More
This little piggy…
Old MacDonald, apparently, had a farm. And on that farm was the entirety of my childhood knowledge of agriculture. E-I-E-I-O. Those cows and sheep with their moo-moos and baa-baas, here, there and every bloody where, were pretty much all I ever really knew about the work of farmers, or where the food I so keenly chowed down on actually originated. … Read More