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.
Iain Maciver
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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.