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To get to Rockall you'd normally set off from Oban on the UK mainland, then either sail past, or stop off at, St Kilda on the way. Rockall is so far out it's hard to believe it's part of the UK. It became part of the UK in 1972.

Yeah, I remember. In reality, nobody knows where it got its name, because it's not from a saint. One theory is it got its name from "skildir", Old Norse for "shield." Another theory is that it got its name from a Scottish Gaelic word meaning "westland."

Evidence St Kilda was inhabited 2,000 years ago 09 February 2021 BBC Highlands & Islands Archaeologists excavated a site in Village Bay on Hirta Scotland's remote St Kilda archipelago was inhabited as long as 2,000 years ago, according to archaeologists. Pieces of Iron Age pottery were...

PETER HITCHENS: We DID have a sensible Covid plan... but copied a police state instead By Peter Hitchens for The Mail on Sunday 13 Feb 2021 Supporters of strangling the country always demand ‘What would you have done?’ if I dare to criticise the Government’s wild, unprecedented policy for...

My mum has just phoned me and said she had the jab yesterday at Bolton Wanderers' University of Bolton Stadium. She and my dad were going to come round to visit me today - even though it's probably illegal - but they're not doing now because this jab is making her feel a bit ill She's shaking a...

Democrats engaging in ‘sinister’ plot against American people Sky News Australia

Playing cricket on ice in the Netherlands: Dutch take to the ice as canals and lakes freeze over https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56054975

BREAKING 👏 Donald Trump Wins Again 😂 Last Laugh Lefties Humiliated 👏 End Of Woke 📦✅ Do-Gooders

Hosts find flashes of flair to bounce back from Scotland defeat By Becky Grey BBC Sport at Twickenham 13th February 2021 England 41-18 Italy Jonny May's incredible try was the pick of England's scores England found flashes of attacking flair to bounce back from last weekend's Scotland defeat...

Nothing better than watching a player's leg snap live on TV. Just a shame it was an England player.

Trump Wins AGAIN Yesterday 😳 Far Left Exposed 🎥 Watch This 🤦‍♂️

Weather: 'Fantastic' ice formations line Welsh roadsides BBC News 12th February 2021 Eight-year-old Violet said she thought the ice formations were the "door to Narnia" Beautiful formations of ice by a roadside have been captured on camera in north east Wales. Alison Best was driving home...

Build a man cave.

India faffing about like the EU is and is therefore struggling like the EU. Meanwhile, Brexit Britain has already vaccinated nearly a quarter of its people. No messing about.

At least I don't have to get up for anything. I can just stay in bed for as long as I want everyday. There have been times lately where I've woken up at 8 or 9am, spent an hour or so posting on here in bed, planning on getting up, and then eventually I've thought: "Sod it. It's cold outside. Its...

Can't go wrong with cheesecake. I bought one a few months ago but I never ate it. I kept forgetting it was there and eventually it went off. So I'm going to try and make one for the first time.

I've not done any baking yet. I've been thinking over the last few days about baking a cheesecake, but I keep forgetting. I might choose one of these tomorrow to bake. I might do the Baileys cheesecake because it's got liqueur in it...

I consider cooking to be my new hobby. I hardly ever used to cook, but I've taken to it over the last few months. Over the last several days I've been looking up all sorts of extravagant recipes on BBC Good Food in the mornings, then going to the local supermarket to get all the ingredients in...

A ‘strange thing’ has occurred in the global temperature Sky News Australia Sky News host Andrew Bolt says there is a “strange thing” which occurred in the world temperature for January, measured by satellites. “We are supposed to think there has already been so much global warming that...