The first edition of the guide, at the turn of the 21st century, was published as a distinctive A5 glossy bound book, a format that has been retained to this day. Subsequent editions have been vastly expanded, with shops, bars, nightclubs, restaurants, visitor centres, transport, museums and art galleries all represented. The current guide design now has a distinctive yellow cover and is referred to as 'The Wee Yellow Book'. A number of eminent figures travelled to Stirling to contribute to the series including Professor Marie Jahoda, who had been a repository and relayer of international research into psychological aspects unemployment since her seminal participatory investigation of the unemployed community of Marienthal, near Vienna, in the early 1930s. Other contributors included Professor Adrian Sinfield, eminent professor of social policy at Edinburgh University who had studied and written extensively about unemployment for decades and Jeremy Seabrook, an English author and journalist who had received acclaim for his insightful, sympathetic and politically sophisticated writing about unemployed people. Kate Krueger is Director of the Honors Program and Professor of Literature at Clarkson University. Her previous positions include Director of the Honors Program in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Associate Professor of English at Arkansas State University. She is the author of British Women Writers and the Short Story, 1850–1930: Reclaiming Social Space (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). Her recent essays have appeared in Victorian Periodicals Review, Women’s Writing, and English Literature in Transition, 1880–1920.

There are numerous causes of red or pink urine from something you have eaten through to infections and cancers. If you notice red urine without an obvious cause, then you should always see your nurse or doctor. David G Pullar’s story is the children’s version of The Yellow on the Broom, an autobiography written by his great-grandmother nearly 100 years ago, and a tale that brought to light the pleasant (and not so pleasant) experiences of a Traveller’s life. The challenges that the family encounters because of their culture and lifestyle raise issues that are as relevant today as they were in the first quarter of the 20th century. Urine travels from the kidneys along tubes called the ureters and into the bladder where it is stored, ready to be expelled when the ‘need to pee’ strikes. Urine is made up of around 90 to 95 per cent water.

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The Entertainment Guide prided itself on getting to the heart of the matter, dispensing practical advice and opening its readers' eyes to the wealth of great attractions, restaurants, hotels and bars that would otherwise have passed them by. The first edition of the guide filled a glaring gap in the market, and unsurprisingly spawned a slew of imitators, most of which have since fallen by the wayside. I managed to reach "the road to nowhere" and met my nearest and dearest at precisely 4pm at the "Traigh beag" carpark in the middle of a downpour. TL; DR/VERDICT/SHORT ANSWER: Peeing is awesome and necessary. Also, kidneys. Why Is My Pee Always Yellow? (And What If It Isn’t?) No, bright yellow urine doesn’t mean that you’re not absorbing your vitamins. Any vitamin that’s mixing with your pee is a water-soluble vitamin, and any amount of it that your body doesn’t need simply gets excreted through the urine. That means your body is taking in what it needs.

Wondering what the colour of your urine means? If we pay any attention at all when we have a wee, we usually expect to see urine of various shades of yellow. It’s easy to understand why suddenly passing green, red or even blue urine might be alarming. Rhabdomyolysis – muscle breakdown due to excessive exercise, dehydration and trauma to muscles. It can also be caused by some illicit drugs, seizures and inherited medical conditions. David Fryer left his position as Professor of Community Critical Psychology at Charles Sturt University, Australia in October 2011 to devote more time to applied critical theory and promoting resistance to neoliberal oppression. He is grateful to The University of Queensland where he currently has an honorary position providing him with library facilities and the countless other resources available to academics. Michelle Reynolds is a PhD student at the University of Exeter. Her thesis looks at women illustrators in Britain active between the years 1880 and 1920 and their relationship to the New Woman feminist ideal and cultural icon. More broadly, her research interests include art and literature of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with a focus on women artists and writers, gender and sexuality, print and exhibition culture, photography, and fashion. She is currently a PGR Representative for the University of Exeter’s Centre for Victorian Studies and an editor for Romance, Revolution and Reform based at the University of Southampton. Because urine is clearing waste from the blood which has circulated right around the body, a change in urine colour can indicate a problem in various organs and systems.The winning Scottish Boys Area Team Championship team - Euan Brown, Cameron Gray, David Currie & Michael Stewart. Other pee drinkers believe their habit lengthens their lifespan. Practitioners of “urotherapy” claim that consuming your own urine can cure acne, weight problems, and even cancer. The American Cancer Society does not agree.

Are you on a new medication? The pharmaceutical additive methylene blue can turn your urine a startling blue or green. Eating too much asparagus or food coloring (I’m looking at you, festive green beer) can also cause verdant pee. Orange urine may be medication- or vitamin-related, or you may have forgotten that carrot feast last night. There’s a fruit or vegetable to blame for nearly every color of the urine rainbow. Heather Marcovitch received her PhD in English in Victorian Literature from the University of Florida. She teaches Victorian literature, children’s literature, literary theory, and essay writing at Red Deer Polytechnic in Alberta, Canada, where her research focuses on the writing and culture of the late Victorian period in England, especially as it pertains to The Yellow Book and the Bodley Head publishing company. She is the author of The Art of the Pose: Oscar Wilde’s Performance Theory, the co-editor of two books on television studies, and of articles on late Victorian and modernist writers, on The Yellow Book and on the afterlives of Oscar Wilde. She is currently under contract with MacFarland Press to write a companion volume to Oscar Wilde’s writings. Her essay on Ella D’Arcy will be published in Cahiers victoriens et edouardiens this spring. Her current research focuses on George Egerton’s relationship to John Lane and she is developing a longer project about secular Judaism, literature, and the Victorian fin de siècle. The Wee Yellow Book, considered by many to be the golfing bible for Scottish golfers who take part in open competitions, is now available on line. At the first AJGL meeting of 2008, under the Chairmanship of Fleming Gibson (Caprington), on Tuesday 5th February, the draws were made for the 2008 Ayrshire Junior Golf League competitions. TL; DR/VERDICT/SHORT ANSWER: Sure, you can. You can also hit yourself with a hammer or chew gum that’s lost its flavor. You are the captain of your own destiny. Choose wisely. Should I Pee On This Jellyfish Sting? What About This Patch of Athlete’s Foot?Let’s part the underpants-shaped veil surrounding urination information. Let’s learn about peeing. What Is Peeing, and How Does It Work? Dehydration can darken urine; this may be due to excessive fluid loss from sweating during exercise or with a fever or from inadequate fluid intake. Urine can be a very pale, almost white colour if you have drunk large quantities of water and the urine is very diluted. Cloudy urine can also appear a milky white and this might happen due to:

B vitamins are water-soluble, so any excess gets released through the urine. Because vitamin B2 (riboflavin) has a fluorescent hue, the excess, when mixed with the urine, can produce that neon yellow color. Other B vitamins, including B9 (folic acid) and B12, have a similar effect. Should you stop taking vitamins if you have neon yellow urine? The connection between vitamin B2 supplementation and urine color has been borne out in research. Indeed, researchers have traced urinary B2 in subjects to determine their compliance in studies. Why do B vitamins make your urine neon yellow? Finally, here, Cathy and her fellow activists continued the struggle to the point of organising a weekend competition in which teams of interdisciplinary technical experts, but crucially chaired by tenants, were tasked to design affordable interventions to prevent dampness and fungal spore infestation in a sample of Easterhouse houses (which did not include Cathy’s house). The competition winner was titled Retrofit Solar Improvement of Thermally Inefficient or Substandard Housing. Cathy and her activist colleagues applied for and obtained a promise of funding from the European Commission if a substantial local government contribution was made. Despite severe, sustained, opposition, Cathy and her activist colleagues obtained the required commitments and a demonstration project was implemented. Evaluation of the implemented project showed it simultaneously: eliminated dampness and fungal spore infestation; greatly reduced poverty by huge fuel savings; much improved mental and physical health; and massively reduced carbon dioxide emissions. Sometimes urine changes colour and it can take you by surprise as well as trigger concerns about what might have caused it. Again, orange urine can indicate that you need to drink more fluid or you’ve eaten something orange but it may be due to other more serious problems:Sarah Parker is a Lecturer in English at Loughborough University. She is the author of The Lesbian Muse and Poetic Identity, 1889–1930 (Routledge, 2013) and Michael Field: Decadent Moderns (co-edited with Ana Parejo Vadillo, Ohio University Press, 2019). She has published several articles and book chapters on poets including Amy Levy, H.D., Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Olive Custance. Any vitamin that’s mixing with your pee is a water-soluble vitamin, and any amount of it that your body doesn’t need simply gets excreted through the urine.”