May 24th, 2009 | by Simon | published in Scotland
A brilliant ad from Irn-Bru which sums up Scottishness perfectly.
Interesting side fact: Scotland’s the only country in the world where Coke isn’t the top-selling soft drink. That honour goes to Irn-Bru!
April 14th, 2009 | by Simon | published in Advertising, Scotland, Travel
This is an advert produced by the Scottish Government to publicise Homecoming Scotland. It does actually make me want to go back home! Hooray for Scotland!
March 2nd, 2009 | by Simon | published in Scotland
Well I’m just back from a couple of days in Bonnie Scotland, and it was the first time in a while I’d been to my home village of Monifieth (I couldn’t find any more recent pictures than that!). I was just there for a couple of days to look after a family member who had [...]
September 7th, 2008 | by Simon | published in Scotland
Och aye the noo! Sorry I haven’t posted in ages but bla bla bla. Anyways, I have been pretty busy the last couple of weeks. Taking advantage of the fact that work has calmed down a bit now that Northern Exposure is all in the can, I spent a couple of weekends in my home [...]
November 24th, 2007 | by Simon | published in Friends, Scotland
My friends Nick & Kate got married recently (that’s why I was over in Glasgow). As you can see from the picture above they looked very smart – Nick in a black kilt – stylish for a change! I also splashed out on a new suit as the last time I was at a wedding [...]
November 24th, 2007 | by Simon | published in Film / TV, Food and Drink, Scotland
I’ve written about River City before – it’s a Scottish soap which I tune into and which my friend works on in Glasgow. I was over in Scotland again a couple of weeks ago for a wedding (see the seperate post) and took the opportunity to go and catch up with Maj.
She was working late, so I [...]
November 19th, 2007 | by Simon | published in Family, Scotland, Travel
My wee sister turned 21 last month! That was a bit sad really as it means I’m getting old – I can vaguely remember the day we went to hospital to pick her up. Anyway, to celebrate, I flew over to Scotland to surprise her, and my other sister flew over from Dallas (I think [...]
August 1st, 2007 | by Simon | published in Friends, Scotland, Travel
Following the shennanigans of the previous night, we all managed to make it up pretty early in the morning (just as well really as our lodges had to be clear by 10am!) – I’d also managed to get back tipsy at about 3am the night before and actually tidy up the entire lodge, clearing it [...]
July 31st, 2007 | by Simon | published in Friends, Scotland, Travel
After drinking for 12 hours the day before, I can safely say I was feeling a bit rough on Saturday morning for the second day of my stay on Islay. I got up at 6am, went back to bed, got up at 10am, went back to bed, got up at 11am, lay on the sofa [...]
July 31st, 2007 | by Simon | published in Friends, Scotland, Travel, airlines
Hullo there! (Scottish accent) So after heading to bed at 9.30pm and falling asleep immediately last night, I have now recovered enough to tell you about my weekend! I am splitting it into each day otherwise it would be a long post. And you would probably be falling asleep. If you didn’t know, last weekend [...]
