Comprizes: the tragic story of comedy-star Eric "Wee Burney" Cullen (British miscarriage of justice case); a guide to caring for pet rats, including section on Ship/Black rat Rattus rattus; and a synopsis of the Kenny Richey case. That's in the "for love" section: there is also a commercial section offering website design and displaying examples of my work. [Why is this sentence so contorted? In order to cram what I consider to be the most important subjects of the site into the first few lines for the benefit of certain search-engines.] Click one of the hotlinks below to go to the section of your choice.

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I actually intended that anyone looking up either Eric or the ratties would be directed straight to the appropriate section and would never need to know that the other bit existed. But some of the search-engines have other ideas and are directing both categories to this root index. Apologies for any bogglement this may cause: but if Eric himself had ever done a website it would no doubt have included both a deeply serious section offering advice to victims of sexual abuse and something on long-haired chihuahuas.

In any case there is a link between the two. On the anniversary of his ludicrously inappropriate imprisonment Eric 'phoned me, depressed and very drunk (because a friend had given him a case of ice lager and hadn't warned him how strong it was!), and demanded "Cheer me up!" I said "But, something hopeful has happened today - a litter of baby rats has been born" and he cried "Oh, fantastic!" and got a real kick out of it. A photo' of the last survivor of that litter, Clementine, appears on the ratty part of the website: she lived to be nearly 3½, making her one of the three oldest rats I've ever kept.

N.B. The ratty part of this site has recently been upgraded. All being well, upgrades on other areas - including a text-only version of the Theatre of Cruelty pages about Eric Cullen, and a collection of Comedy & Tragedy objects - will follow shortly.

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The true and tragic story of Eric Cullen, the Scots comic actor who played Wee Burney in the BBC comedy Rab C Nesbitt - an outstandingly good and likeable man of great talent who suffered appalling cruelty, first from a vicious paedophile ring and then from the British tabloid press, before becoming the victim of a particularly bizarre miscarriage of justice (also a mate of mine).

Summary of the story of Kenny Richey, a Scot on Death Row for a murder which nobody committed because it never actually happened - described by Amnesty International as "one of the most compelling cases of innocence" they have ever seen. There is a connection with Eric "Wee Burney" Cullen here, apart from the obvious one of both being Scots and both being victims of spectacular miscarriages of justice: Kenny Richey's mother-in-law was a friend of Eric's!

A beginner's guide to keeping rats as pets, including information on the care of the Ship Rat (Rattus rattus).

Pagan and eclectic religious supplies; Celtic art etc. - the online outpost of my shop in Edinburgh

From the frivolous to the deeply serious...

A commercial page advertizing my skills as a web-designer, with examples.