This Blog is brought to you as a result of my course in Blogging with Cambridge University Institute of Continuing Education (ICE) Without it, my space would still be dormant, waiting for me to comprehend the not-as-easy-as-it-looks platform. In a few busy weeks I’ve learned a great deal from Blogging ethics to finding a place […]
Author: The Naughty Haggis
Harry and Meghan Please Stop Whinging.
Harry and Meghan please stop whinging Generally speaking, and as an ex serviceman who took the Queen’s shilling, I would say I am a royalist at heart. That’s not to say I’m uncritical of the Royal Household, and haven’t some of them gone out of their way in both recent and more distant times to […]
The Quraishi Bakery
I am standing impatiently outside the Quraishi Bakery, in Al Manara, Dubai. The doughy smell of bread, just pulled from a furnace-like tandoor is being ejected from an extractor overhead, and my juices are flowing. It is one of hundreds of such bakeries throughout the city. They supply individuals like me, to delivery boys on […]
Tackety Boots
In my teens I was a cadet, a member of a quasi-military youth organisation for boys, (long before segregation became a dirty word), the focus for which was all things concerning the Royal Air Force. Every Friday evening we would learn about aircraft past and present, rudimentary principles of flight, how to march, on parade, […]
The Chesterfield
I’m at that age where I enjoy a nap in the afternoon, about 25 minutes or so, to shut the eyes, reflect, recharge and face the rest of the day. I could choose the settee in the living room, or I could get into bed, or even the office chair. In winter, the Middle East […]
The Cabin
THE CABIN My socks are steaming, the heady vapour lazily ascending to the cabin roof, mingling with the smells of cooking meat, sleeping bags and my unwashed companions. LeeJohn Meyook is telling the story of a hungry polar bear that terrorised a community in the search for food, and enthralled as I am, the proximity […]
Which are you – Haggis or Faggot?
A new article in progress but a worthy examination of the differences between haggis and faggots, or Scots and Welsh, if you like.
Gliding – Back To My Roots
This article is in progress, but it examines my return to gliding, some 25 years after I last flew in a glider…
Are you a “Modern” parent?
If so, then there’s a good chance that you are also an ass hole. Let’s be quite clear about what a modern parent actually is. If you fit any of these descriptions, then, in my not-so-humble opinion, you are indeed an ass hole. You feel that the rest of us should be as euphoric about the […]
A Day In Beijing
A Day In Beijing A couple of years ago, I was on a layover in Beijing, surely one of the least interesting places on Earth. I had arrived late the night before, reaching the hotel at about 11:30 pm, just in time to avoid any possibility of a meal in a restaurant, either in the […]
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