It was 24 December 1988 and my first Watchnight Service as minister of St Paul’s.     It was something I had looked forward to.     A guar...

  Detective Inspector John Rebus is days away from retirement after more than thirty years as a police officer.     But rather than just see...

It wasn’t a day loaded with interest and incident.    Dropped off by my chauffeuse for an early appointment at the Beatson, a train from Hyn...

  I once attended a Presbytery meeting in which a retired minister was congratulate d on the fiftieth anniversary of his Ordination.   He wa...

  We call it Holy Week but for most parishes in the Church of Scotland it is Holy Two Days: Thursday when the Lord's Supper was institut...

I have a thing about kingfishers.  Kingfisher curtains in my wee study, kingfisher print on a house wall, kingfisher ornaments.  I don't...

My daughter-in-law Mary was at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday evening.     She works for the BBC and the reception was for Regional Media in...