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Very often we receive fanmail at ScotsCare.  OK, when I say fanmail I really mean letters expressing thanks that we’ve been able to help but I use fanmail because very occasionally we also receive the opposite…hatemail!

If I’m honest, there is not much that can be directed towards me as a Scot that offends me, I was brought up to believe the mantra of stick and stones and like a good brainwashee it’s all mostly water off a duck’s back (how many more clichés can I fit into this entry do you think?) but having said that there is one term I don’t really like and that is being described as Scotch. (more…)

You’ll be pleased to know that I have not much to say in this post.  It seems that a lot of my fellow bloggers have done a runner leaving Ross and I to entertain you and to be honest, I’m not quite sure where to find much entertainment at work.  Don’t get me wrong, there is plenty of amusing stuff happening, just not a lot that I can reveal in public

Those of you who have been keeping up to date with ScotsCare’s news will know that we have formed an alliance with Borderline and our remit now includes helping homeless Scots in London.  This has resulted in myself and colleagues attending specialised homelessness courses designed by Shelter; who ever said you can’t teach an old dogs new tricks hasn’t witnessed the sight of me getting all my answers right in a multiple choice test

I had the chance to catch up with a friend this week and as is always the way, we soon ended up chatting about our respective jobs.  My friend is a barber so you would expect him to have a wealth of tales to tell about the many varied people who sit in his chair for 15 minutes or so and reveal all manner of tidbits of their life as he snips away and bemoans Arsenal’s many missed chances to score a goal of late. (more…)

So, we’re now into March and it’s officially Spring!  Say what you like about global warming but I, rather selfishly, can’t wait for the scorching desert-like conditions the environmentalists refer to; in fact I sometimes wonder about the delicious irony of them being called environmentalists in the first place (more…)

If you are reading this in the UK then you probably know that we had a flurry of snow that caused a little disruption to the usually smooth running public transport system here in London.  OK, that’s not exactly correct, if you’re lucky it might be running but seldom is it ever smooth! 

Unlike a lot of people who found themselves stranded at home I was able to work thanks to the wonders of remote access. It’s interesting how things have progressed, I remember in 1989 when I worked for British Telecom and the notion of being able to log onto your corporate desktop from your home PC was getting bandied about.  No one quite believed it would ever catch on and even to this day there are a great many sceptical people, managers included, who raise an eyebrow when someone says they are working from home, the belief is often that without someone there to watch over them the at home worker will spend all day watching daytime TV in between visits to the fridge. (more…)