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Bye Bye BP
And so it was with very mixed emotions that I left my office last night, for the last time, since we move into new premises on Monday. We moved into the old ones around about the time that Diana, Princess of Wales died, and I feel as if that was a lifetime ago, so much…
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Serendipity
Pictures below from Starbank Road, Newhaven at the start of the month. You can see them as the triumph of the biological drive to blossom and so procreate, or pretty flowers growing in the rubbish. The choice is yours. Poppy petals seem to me to be about one micron…
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The evil that (wo)men do
Our thoughts are with everyone affected by the sad loss of flight MH17. Writing up my mid year appraisal with Mr Chopin for company. On the plus side, great gig with Big Country last night, loved it when Bruce Watson came on stage and said “I never thought I’d ever hear myself say this –…
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Fresh out of Lotus
If I had a superpower I would like it to be the ability to stay awake during the dvd and stay asleep in bed. Since i have clearly lucked out on that one, here I am with my book of New York poetry after having played away all my lives on Candy Crush and finished…
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Spinally tapped
Another evening at Pilates, another well stretched me. We had a very interesting weekend with our friend Rieko, from Tokyo. Saturday: National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh; Meadows walk; Burrell Collection, Pollok Park, Glasgow; then home for a gourmet Japanese meal. Sunday: The Kelpies, Falkirk; the new exhibition at the field of the Battle of Bannockburn;…
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Plenum
At least that is how my head feels just now, very busy at work and the lighter mornings wake me up early which means more thoughts squeeze themselves in my conscious waking state. They’re not worth writing down but I did realise that it was time to update BTW if only so that the most…
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Thought for the Day
Here’s a thing, and you might want to finish your breakfast first. I make it my business to visit and evaluate ladies’ loos the world over. Current most interesting – the ones in the St. Petersburg food market. Tip topper most, our own, with calming colour scheme, decent selection of reading material, digital radio*, Ecover…
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Scottish Serenade
Pretty short on updates, spent my birthday weekend at Blair Atholl with After 8 Mince, the groupies, Yard of Ale, On the Wagon, Dalgety Bay Folk Club and some very hard working hotel staff. Then a whizz up to the Highland Wildlife Park to see the red pandas, the wolverine, the capercaillie (finally) and the…
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A Walk in the Park
Pollok park in Glasgow to be precise, where Paul and I went to join a five mile sponsored walk in aid of Parkinson’s UK last Sunday. If you have missed my mumbled appeals for sponsorship you can still support us by clicking on this link. We’d never been here before so we went across to…
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If there was a word to describe the swiftness of the past few weeks it would be right here
We have been out and about, to Rambottom no less, in Lancashire, to celebrate the Silver Wedding of our friends Catherine and Philip Burgess. As ever, it was grand to see old chums and we are filled with the urge to do more of the same. Hotel had a pool, which was a bonus, and…