Rant of the day

SCOTTISH FOOTBALL (2) Back in January, I said that Scottish football was rather dull, since the two Glasgow clubs, Rangers and Celtic, ha...

NORTHERN IRELAND Today is the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Ulster Convenant, the document which ultimately led to the partition...

THE COMMON COLD The common cold is a generic name given to around 200 viruses which can affect the human upper respiratory tract, and whic...

BAH HUMBUG A regular reader of mine used the phrase "bah humbug" in connection with some of my posts. So I looked up what it mea...

POPCORN I dislike popcorn. True, I eat it when it's there, but I always look down on myself when I do. It's incredibly more-ish, b...

CARDINALS The word cardinal comes from the Latin cardo , the name given for a wedge put in between timbers. Cardinals thus were originally...

WINTER HOBBIES (2) It's September and it's Denmark, so it's starting to get cold and miserable (I know, since I have just empt...