Time flies

As I was walking to the station the other morning I noticed something weird about the digital clock on one of the buildings. I stopped and captured it using the video function of my digital camera. Then, just for fun, I imported it into imovie8 and plopped the opening bars of a Jimmy Nail song [...]

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It’s not about you

This is rule number three in Daniel Pink’s “Johnny Bunko” book which I mentioned a wee while back. There are two reasons why both the Johnny Bunko rules and this particular rule came to my mind this week.
Firstly, I’ve just been finding that in recent times this little phrase has often popped into my mind. [...]

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Should this drug be available on the NHS?

There’s an organisation in England known as NICE – The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence. Many countries have their equivalent organisations. Their job is to inform health service policy but in fact their advice tends to be taken as the definitive word……if NICE says “no” then that drug will NOT be available on [...]

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8 miles apart 28 years difference in life expectancy

There was a headline item on the morning news which, even though, it wasn’t really new, was still shocking. In Lenzie, Scotland, the life expectancy of a child who lives there is 81 years. Eight miles away, in the East End of Glasgow a child of the same age as the one in Lenzie has [...]

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Rudbeckia in the GHH garden

Rudbeckia are from the Aster family. These ones growing the garden at Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital (GHH) struck me as particularly lovely.

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Bruce Mau’s Incomplete Manifesto for Growth

I stumbled upon this the other day – from the designer, Bruce Mau. There are 43 items on his list. Take a look, they’re inspiring. Here are three which jumped out at me -
Process is more important than outcome. When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go to where we’ve already been. [...]

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Life’s amazing variety

I recently read “Findings” by Kathleen Jamie. She quoted a short phrase from a Louis MacNeice poem in one of her essays…….
World is suddener than we fancy it.                                                                                                                                         World is crazier and more of it than we think,
Incorrigibly plural.
This is from his poem, “Snow“. She only quoted the last two words “incorrigibly plural”……..one of those [...]

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Natural inspiration

Which of these creatures inspires you? What, if anything, could you learn from them?

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Rainwater on leaves

Why do I love to see rainwater on leaves so much?
Don’t know, really, but I sure do. Same with flowers actually. In fact, although we tend to think of rain as “bad weather” and have a good moan about it, rainy weather is good photography weather. There’s something about the light of an overcast sky [...]

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The magic of rowans

I took these rowan berries in the garden of Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital this week. The rowan berries are plentiful in Scotland this year. Folklore has it that lots of rowan berries mean it’s going to be a hard winter. Scientists say, of course, that this isn’t true, and it seems these days that Scotland doesn’t [...]

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