Where to start with the week we’ve had? Perhaps with the 70th anniversary of the Partition of India, the final act of the enlightened British rule that led to mass migration, a million people killed, and the hostility between India and Pakistan lasting for all those years. Then we had a clash in Charlottesville, USA between white supremacists and those…

A difficult decision that everyone has to make from time to time, when faced with a selection of equally attractive goods, is… which one to choose. In such a situation, many variables and aspects have to be taken into consideration, like affordability, attractiveness, prestige, look, desirability, and so on… Recently I had to replace my mobile phone, and it took…

Some of you might still remember from a few years back “Tad’s Tatties”, which were distributed from St Peter’s porch for a number of weeks. The tatties were a by-product of the rather noble enterprise of turning a strip of ground in the parish garden into a playground for the pupils of St Peter’s Primary School. First of all, that…

During a friendly chat a couple of weeks ago, I learnt how farmers and fishermen used to form pretty separate communities in the Buckie area. Quite likely I personally wouldn’t have been able to share much common ground with either community – my knowledge regarding farming or fishing is pretty much next to nothing. Am I uniquely ignorant in that…