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I don’t quite get it

I mean Elizabeth Holmes and her antics. A first year drop-out from Stanford who is told by her professor that her blood testing idea will simply not work, but carries…

And you thought the rules of golf were complicated

I’ve been following the Formula 1 end of season championship furore with some interest. It appears that there is some dubiety about the result of the final race in Abu…

On not getting a ‘like’ from Tom Coyne

It doesn’t piss me off that much to be honest. I mean maybe he doesn’t read the comments on his Instagram account posts. But last week he posted about having…

Delay in writing the memoirs

I will have to have a bit of a delay in writing the old memoirs as I’m back into the world of work guys. All said, the memoirs weren’t progressing…

A bit of a blast of a week

Wow. That’s my first week finished back at work in two years. And what a week. As you know, I’m now working at Dean Bank’s restaurant at the Pompadour in…

And now for something completely different

Ok, the blog is now going to veer off in a slightly different direction and detail some of the antics in the life of the kilted caddie. A kind of…

On Mortonhall Golf Club

I have two claims to fame at Mortonhall. One for getting oh so nearly thrown out of the bar for being rather too inebriated and the other for holding the…

A remarkable story and true

I often sail down the road to Edinburgh to catch up with the merry butchers at Wm Christie in Bruntsfield. Not only do I get golf tips from Angus and…

The Dunghill

The Dunhill is over again. The valiant attempt to bring pros and amateurs together playing in a top level tournament. But does this format work? In theory yes, but in…

Jimmy Hume was right

As a fifteen year old I was selected for coaching down the road at Gullane under the auspices of their characterful pro Jimmy Hume. I remember distinctly what he said…