A good agreement, and two terrible football results
The football season is over. Now we’re obviously biased at RGU – we regularly tell you that Aberdeen is a fabulous place to come to live and work, especially when you comeRead More…
Famous Aberdonians
You know what it’s like. You think you know all the famous people connected with Aberdeen, Denis Law et al, then you go and mention Lord Byron in a blog and realiseRead More…
Robert the Bruce, Don Juan and the Brig o’Balgownie
One of the principal purposes of this blog is to give anyone who is contemplating a move to Aberdeen lots of varied and interesting information about life and leisure in the North-EastRead More…
Things that go WOOOO in the night (and the day).
It’s not something one normally associates with Aberdeen. Ghosts that is. If you have a superstitious bent, then the better known Scottish ghosts tend to be found around Edinburgh, where the touristRead More…
Interesting mistakes about Aberdeen!
One of the great things about writing blogs about Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire is that you get to learn a lot more about our city and the surrounding countryside. Also, I’ve learned soRead More…
How to deal with shark attacks…
You weren’t expecting this, were you? Yes, it’s but a small step from learning a new set of sporting skills in the North-East of Scotland to having to face down a shark.Read More…
Beneath the surface, something stirs
As you know if you’re a regular reader of this blog, we like to encourage people to enjoy a wide variety of sporting and leisure activities and to emphasise that coming toRead More…
Why RGUjobs would like the next Dr Who to be a woman!
I am pretty sure that Dr Who needs no introduction. No, he’s not one our new PhD students, but rather the Time Lord who, since 1963, has been a regular feature inRead More…
“Because it’s there” – who would have thought that climbing in the NE offered such variety?
Famously, when asked why he wanted to climb Mount Everest, George Mallory is supposed to have replied, “Because it’s there” – which, if true, are arguably the three most famous words inRead More…
Fit like? Walking in and around Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire
For the uninitiated, in the north-east of Scotland “Fit like?” is a general purpose expression which means, more or less, “hello, how are you?” It literally translates as “What like?” rather thanRead More…