Author Archives: davidsberry

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About davidsberry

Local ex-councillor, tour guide and database designer. Keen on wildlife, history, boats and music. Retired in 2017.

Living Next Door to the Blenheim

Posted on October 10, 2012 by davidsberry

Regular visitors to this blog may have noticed a certain hiatus in its usual crisp sequence of posts every other day. Normal service may resume but I’m not sure I can promise it. The reason is a particularly hectic weekend … Continue reading →

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Corned Beef Auditors

Posted on October 5, 2012 by davidsberry

Since taking over control of East Lothian Council five months ago, the new Labour/Tory administration has not exactly hit the ground running. But what they have been busy doing is sowing alarm and despondency about the “parlous state” of council … Continue reading →

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Buck-Buck, Bu-aaaaack!

Posted on October 3, 2012 by davidsberry

Ten days ago, in a blog entitled Ten of the Best, I threw the gauntlet down to the assorted rammy of unionists who claim that Scotland would be better off in the UK in any and all situations. OK, I … Continue reading →

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Embra-rassing: A Public Transport Pygmy

Posted on October 1, 2012 by davidsberry

  The recent criticism of restructuring the EGIP railway electrification project to bring Scotland’s key intercity track out of the 19th century rather misses the point. As with the rest of Britain, we think that throwing money at individual lines … Continue reading →

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Private Finance Insanity

Posted on September 30, 2012 by davidsberry

So the debate on how Scotland’s public sector should face another four or more years of growing fiscal drought that will take 12% out of the £33bn devolved budget has been blown open by Labour’s unexpected conversion to revisiting universal … Continue reading →

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Ma Faither’s Howff (Revisited)

Posted on September 28, 2012 by davidsberry

This morning on BBC Scotland’s GMS, there was an unedifying interview with James Kelly MSP, Labour’s whip at Holyrood. In five minutes, James managed to display every bad trait for which his party has become notorious: evasiveness, posturing concern for … Continue reading →

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Come All Ye Jolly Mallowbashers

Posted on September 27, 2012 by davidsberry

Poor though this summer has been, the restart of our local mallow bashing season has seen a couple of fine weekend days to get the season off to a good start, For those of you puzzled what I’m on about, … Continue reading →

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No More Branch Office

Posted on September 26, 2012 by davidsberry

One of the good thing about unionists  is that they’re committed. And when the more thoughtful ones—of which I cheerfully admit there are many—pester you with questions, they are often questions deserving of not just an answer but a fair … Continue reading →

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Ten of the Best

Posted on September 24, 2012 by davidsberry

Now that Nicola Sturgeon has been assigned to the Yes campaign, expect to see some fireworks from that quarter. I have watched Nicola mature from a passionate YSI member that I first saw in action at the SNP Conference in … Continue reading →

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How to Run a Railroad

Posted on September 21, 2012 by davidsberry

We apologise to readers here in search of soaring rhetoric on broadminded topics; today you have come to the wrong place. This blog is not just about things local to East Lothian but written wearing the tasteless anorak of a … Continue reading →

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