Iain Maciver: Who would have thought that saying a’bhalaics to the law could get you OUT of trouble
It is not that my eyesight is worse. It is just that I need new glasses.
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Iain Maciver: You may as well just click ‘like’ on organised crime and drug dealing as fall for obvious social media scams
There are online and telephone scams being attempted everywhere all the time.
Iain Maciver: We will always look for the Skye light that could be at the end of the tunnel
Sometimes I see stories in certain newspapers and I think that’s a daft one they had left over from the beginning of April.
Iain Maciver: The best things come to those who wait – the rest are welcome to drink synthetic Scotch
All I did was tell people to take a little time out of their busy lives to fill in a form and they may get some cash back from their bank if they were oversold PPI. That’s all I wrote here last week.
Iain Maciver: The best gifts are things which can’t be wrapped – or plugged in
It is so wonderful to receive a gift. It just makes you feel so special.
Iain Maciver: I’m as gutted as a celebrity TV haddock that the chips are down at BBC Scotland
When you tuck into a nice bit of haddock and chips with extra salt and vinegar, and green peas with tartare sauce - or maybe mayo if it is near the weekend, do you wonder about the sustainability of the fish stocks in the Atlantic and the North Sea?
Iain Maciver: We got back home safe and dry from Inverness by the seat of our pants
With World Music Day coming up last Friday, the organisers suggested we should explore YouTube for music from different cultures. You could can explore all cultures and then start digging into the folk music, they said. I hadn’t heard many when I came across Last Train To Clarkesville. A masterpiece? Maybe. Then A Little Bit Me And A Little Bit You. I was hooked once I got into the groove.
Iain Maciver: When it comes to food that’s out of this world, beef and rocket is hard to beat
Should the people of North Uist remember a daring and hungry young spaceman who broke the rules and smuggled a sandwich aboard his rocket in 1965?
Iain Maciver: Careful not to get your knickers in a twist about the monster in the swamp
People are so pernickety. Some put their washing on the line in a certain order so it looks better if any neighbours are having a peek.
Iain Maciver: Huawei doesn’t bug me but the price of a mobile phone nowadays sure does
Before he went for his scoff of steamed halibut and Windsor lamb with herb stuffing at Buckingham Palace on Monday, the President of the United States and Potential Hereditary Shareholder of the Common Grazings at Tong, near Stornoway, had a chinwag with the Foreign Secretary about Brexit and mobile phones.
Iain Maciver: Eurovision and grape expectations
Mrs X has always loved the Eurovision Song Contest, from the days when you could win by just having an easy-to-remember name like Lulu or Dana or Dana International.
Iain Maciver: Charging through life as we do, we need all the batteries we can get, it would seem
The other day I commanded Mrs X to make me one of my favourite meals – meatballs Italian-style.
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Blondes have more fun – but not as much as the self-service checkout watchers
If you need a good laugh, just go to a supermarket at a busy time. Friday teatimes or Saturday lunchtimes, for example. Go in but don’t stray too far from the door. Then just hang around, looking all unconcerned and non-suspicious until you spot a target.
Dancing sends us crazy – look at Strictly come prancing and Abba’s Brexit queen
Someone has sent me their phrase of the week. It is in Latin. Oh help. Something by that great Roman philosopher Cicero, apparently. “Nemo enim fere saltat sobrius, nisi forte insanit.”
Iain Maciver: A chill has run through my blood since it turned October – for a variety of reasons
It’s only the beginning of October but it is much colder already. Mind you the chilling wind of Brexit could be the cause. It makes my blood run cold.
Why join the scrum at the bar when you can download an app to order your chips? and wine?
There was a day that you could go to the pub, drink your fill, talk utter nonsense about politics and politicians, pretend you were an expert about sport and motorcycle maintenance and burp loudly. That was it. A great night.
Could this be the beginning of a landslide victory in quest for a republic of Harris?
After another hectic day in Inverness, I was on the ferry back to Stornoway on Monday night when I had a call from The Hearach. He was jubilant. He was aglow. He was dancing.
Iain Maciver: The best fish must swim three times – in water, in butter, and in wine
Maybe I eat too much fish. How many other people have herring for breakfast every day? No one else that I know, that’s for sure. It used to be a mackerel fillet but now I’m on the hard stuff.