Tagged dining out

Apart from a wheel of cheese, my only other souvenir from our holiday to Arran was near scurvy. My five-a-day routine had tipped into minus territory, dropping to -7 on the day I had a Blackwaterfoot...

For fans of Jupiter Artland, a visit has always been a summer activity. However, this year, for the first time, this contemporary sculpture park is opening in the autumn for non-members, from today (5...

One of my favourite online videos features a seagull strolling into an Aberdeen branch of RS McColl’s and shoplifting a bag of cheese Doritos. Down at the Newhaven end of town, these birds were pestering...

  There are noodles on the floor, on the window, in his eyebrow and shoe, and draped over the back of the highchair.   Babies and ramen.   It’s a bit like taking a clown to a...

    What to wear on my first train trip to Glasgow for five months?   There’s a little silky floral number, the Scandi minimal grey linen piece, or the workaday blue one. It’s...

  It’s best not to have a party trick, or you’ll have to do a dolphin impression wherever you go. Same with signature songs and dishes. Black Lace must have got to the point of Agadont and Mary...

  At the bottom of Lothian Road, I thought about lying on the pavement, telling him to go without me and letting the seagulls take my eyes.   My average step count has plummeted recently. It...

      Come ‘awa’ in!”, says the sign as you enter the village of Hopeman.   We were in the area to help clear the house of my much loved late...

    I’m not sure I’d recognise my colleagues. I occasionally wonder if they’d fancy meeting up, but I’ve become a lockdown loner.   As much as I love them, even in normal...

    I love a busman’s holiday. Even though I had a recent day off work for (the 15th anniversary of) my 30th birthday, I still had to do a restaurant review.   We squeezed in a...