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This week, Lesley presses on to Benbecula. She meets people dressed in lycra, hears about seals and islands from different folks of different generations. It's another hard day in the saddle. Check it out here.
As ever, comments are welcome and the book is still available.
BBC TV mature lady newsreader or Chief Executive of ITV. It’s hard to decide which is the more poisoned chalice.
News-reading is currently perceived as the dizzying height of a TV career, but for all the “glamour” of those 30 minutes on screen, presenters spend days waiting for decisions, research notes, reading papers and hanging about. Make no mistake. The ability to switch off, then fully on is a particular skill. So is dealing instantly with changes and mistakes delivered by a voice in your ear. So is reading with feeling and intelligence to 10 million people. Day after day after day. Well paid it is but glamorous it ain’t, and for women, the certain knowledge their appearance is being judged by every viewer means natural beauty or a constitution of tungsten is needed to survive.
Continue reading "Scots channel would be a real signal of intent" »
This photo will make sense when you listen to this week's repeat of Lesley's 'On the Bike'. After a day out with the Minister, Lesley moves on to South Uist and encounters music, marinas and the talk of buy outs. She also cycles a small road with a big issue. You can hear all the voices including the two Anguses from the picture at www.rqs.libsyn.com
Lesley also wrote a book to accompany this epic cycle. For a limited time only, you can order a signed copy of the book for £9.99 with free shipping. Simply send a cheque with a note of your name and address and any specific inscription you might want Lesley to sign to Karen McLeod, Feisty Productions, 4th Floor 21A Commercial St., Dundee DD1 3DD.
Why will there be no real public outcry over the SNP‘s latest attempt to fix the independence referendum in their favour with the inclusion of secessionist teenagers in the vote?
Perhaps Scots actually agree with Labour – we all know there are much bigger fish to fry.
Blinking into the sun for the tenth astonishing day in a row, Scots need no reminder that we are teetering on the brink of disaster. So many impending disasters it seems, that we are accelerating towards not reversing from our collective fate.
Continue reading "SNP's voting age illusion is a trick that won't be fallen for " »
After last week's start in Barra, Lesley links up with Tavish Scott, who was the Transport Minister at the time. They cycle, learn some Gaelic and play some golf on a Tom Morris golf course. Recorded in July of 2006, the sunny summer weather is reflected in the banter. You can find this programme and last week's over at www.rqs.libsyn.com
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It will henceforth be known as a Swinson moment. Immersed in a world of weightier matters the Scottish Lib Dem MP was puzzled last week by the sight of men wearing kilts and Scotland football tops in Queen St station on the day of the home match against Holland.
Fatefully, she announced her bafflement on Twitter and was rapidly and robustly “put right”. Her crime - in the eyes of the Tartan Army – was to be unaware that the fate of the national team (and by weary extension the entire nation) hung on this final chance to qualify for the forthcoming World Cup.
Continue reading "Oh, Jo, try being a cyclist so you might notice that juggernaut" »
In the summer of 2006 Lesley cycled from Barra to the Butt of Lewis and recorded a series called ; "On the Bike". It has proved to be very popular. So in response to requests; over the coming weeks, a selection of these programmes, additional recordings and stunning photographs will be made available week by week. The link to find these podcasts is www.rqs.libsyn.com or you can subscribe through iTunes.
Lesley also wrote a book to accompany this epic cycle. For a limited time only, you can order a signed copy of the book for £9.99 with free shipping. Simply send a cheque with a note of your name and address and any specific inscription you might want Lesley to sign to Karen McLeod, Feisty Productions, 4th Floor 21A Commercial St., Dundee DD1 3DD.
