There's a item in the newspapers and social media today about some Christmas  Hallmark Netflix hit, something about Brooke Shields  b...

Michael - Thursday  Nelson Mandela and FW De Klerk at the Nobel awards That may sound like a strange title for a blog, but Frederick Willem ...

Annamaria on Monday Climate change is everywhere.     Clearly, governments and corporations absolutely must do the heavy lifting to save us ...

  -- Susan, every other Sunday Omotenashi  lies at the core of Japanese culture. Although the word is usually translated into English as ...

Jeff--Saturday   Please excuse me for this stream of consciousness blog, but I’m trying to write in a hurry so that I...

It was Scottish book week this week, the authors were out and about. Nothing odd about that, but these were the first events for some of us ...

  Stanley - Thursday I could quite easily have titled this blog About time  since it would have applied to both stories in the news that hav...