To A Mouse But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane, In proving foresight may be vain; The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'men Gang aft agley, An'lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy! Robert Burns

I was having a hard time a few years ago, things were very difficult at work, my family had gone through a sequence of illnesses and I was pretty much at the end of my tether. I was aware that a group

I'm pretty sure that most people will tell tales about getting into sailing and boating in general because they did it as kids. It therefore has been a long familial tradition to have a boat on the water;

I write my own content, every time and always. I have been curating the feed and I am flabergasted by the amount of machine generated garbage out there. I’ve seen one post which was clearly a spell check

I like STEEM a lot, it makes so much sense to underwrite a cryptocurrency with content. Now, I may differ from others but to me it seems important that the content itself is inherently valuable. I know

I have a wood stove so I process a lot of wood. I usually cut it into lengths that fit in my trolley and take it home for the final stages. I will freely admit that the work is hard and plays havoc with

Sometimes life is good and all your plans work out. As a dour cynical Scot I expect this to happen with the rarity of a bottle of unicorn tears; however it does happen and I am more delighted than someone

I grew up in a haunted house. It was listed as having a poltergeist, who would tear clothing and hide pins & needles in food that was being cooked. As an infant I was happily unaware of this and it

It is always nice to dress up for a wedding. In Scotland it is traditional for both the men and women to wear skirts. :) My friend took the photo, he was very particular as to our position while he took

I have been on a quest for some years now to reduce my plastic consumption - it really bothers me that I can have a disposable cup that will outlast a country. Only the Pharos could imagine having their

Hello Steemers! I am from Scotland and after many frustrating years of writing things for FaceBook I have seen the light and decided to produce my long winded essays for this austere platform. I prefer

Genesis 5:32-10:1 New International Version (NIV) Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth. 7 And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark to escape

Now even though Jesus supposedly came from Nazareth and was Jewish he is often portrayed as being very, very Caucasian. It probably comes as an uncomfortable truth that he would bear more of a resemblance

Matthew 21:12-13 Jesus at the Temple 12 Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling

I grew up in a small town in Scotland and like many of my peers I was imbued with a sense of Christian values. Given that my home town was a mix of Protestant and Irish Catholics I was fed a slightly

Ahh Scotland is a grand place indeed! We have a laissez faire attitude towards enjoying a drink, not culturally sanctioned alcoholism as some might think; but more a tacit acceptance that having a beer