Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • coffins, facial expressions, ex-democratic dictator

    snow is gone just remnants of dirty ice scatterd about where it had been shoveled to the side left.  What a sad end to a lovely white cold stuff – pity it cant be washed with fairy liquid or persil or something else and come out clean and cold and white and layable as if […]

  • Haiti – our prayers are with you

    Our prayers are with the Haitians – please donate

  • painful anatomy, hadrian’s wall, secret love letters

    Volunteers are being sought for Hadrian’s Wall, built by the Romans hundreds of years ago and still going strong compared to the buildings nowadays which only last 15 years then dilapidate. The intention is to get 500 volunteers who will each switch on a wee point of light which will be set every 250 metres on the 84 mile stretch of wall on 13 March 2010.

  • Big thaw

    Bonspiel no more as Lake of Menteith is thawing faster than the speed of sound going down a wormhole. That is sad as it would have been really exciting to have a rare occassion here. Never mind next time – let’s hope the emergency services are more alert and a damper is not put on.

  • a thief called Blair

    The snow is almost thawed and the temperature was a hot 2 degrees – woo hoo – but rain though there is supposed to be flurries of snow tonight. Well here is a little known fact – Westminster stole 6,000 miles of Scottish sea border – they were laying the territory for any future oil […]

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