July 2017 – Meditations

July 31, 2017

Castle Campbell

Castle Campbell sounded like an interesting name to me when I first heard it. I mean, the choice of the name of a clan…

July 29, 2017

Risk

I find Risk to be an entirely invigorating game. The standard methodology of the World map is, however, not nearly as interesting as the…

July 27, 2017

‘Yes, Minister’

Well, “under consideration” means “we’ve lost the file”; “under active consideration” means “we’re trying to find it”. This is a true British classic which…

July 25, 2017

Abdication of Justin II

One of the strengths of Mr Gibbon (Chapter 45) is his propensity to draw up images from the very moment the original events happened….

July 23, 2017

Tantallon Castle

Tantallon is one of the places which I feel looks more spectacular on pictures than in person. This, however, is not because the place…

July 21, 2017

‘Wrapped Up in Death’, ‘Castle’

There’s no upside to screwing with things you can’t explain. That’s very much the takeaway from the ‘Castle’ episode ‘Wrapped Up in Death’. A…

July 19, 2017

Assynt

Assynt is a loch in northern Scotland that I have not been to. What I have done is seen the video Rapha Continental did…

July 17, 2017

Dunstanburgh Castle

Moving southwards on the coast, there’s Dunstanburgh. Or, rather, what was Dunstanburgh. With the castle being so closely tied to the fate of its…

July 15, 2017

Bamburgh Castle

I wish I could say I visited Bebbanburgh, but regrettably as yet we can still travel only in space and not in time. If…

July 13, 2017

Lindisfarne Priory

The Priory was close to the Castle. Apparently, it was out of use and being slowly dismantled by the time construction started on the…