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Category: Family

  • MRI

    Thanks to everyone who phoned tonight, or texted,  and to Elspeth & Colin for taking me to Dundee and waiting patiently.  Now I just have to sook up the courage to rip this bandage off my arm. Sleep Sleep tonight And may your dreams Be realized If the thunder cloud Passes rain So let it…

  • Downtime

    Paul & I recently managed to synch our calendars so that we had a long weekend together.  First stop was Perth, where we were introduced to Miss Alexandra Carmichael by proud mum Annelie.  Dad Craig was not too well, hopefully better now and we’ll see him next time.   Alan Alpenfelt was also there; thanks…

  • Midweek

    Nothing could have made me happier tonight, after yet another long day, than to hear my big sister playing the piano tune Rosemary down the phone.

  • A pageant, of birds too.

    When I tried to upload pictures from our weekend in Beadnell I failed spectacularly, so here I am, having another shot at it.  Whilst I do this HM the Queen is doing a stalwart job standing up for over three hours on the trot, in the rain, watching the Jubilee pageant on the River Thames. …

  • Out, out, damned Spotty Dog

    Sometimes, and I know you will find this hard to believe, I can’t think of anything to say. No flurry of verbiage rushes unbidden to the tongue.  No tales, badly told, of chums’ misdeeds or misfortunes are haphazardly heaped on the hapless listener (ok, enough of that).  In truth and in short, I have had…

  • Farne away

    So, home again after an epic weekend in Beadnell, Northumberland, seeing our chums from Discovery 2008.  It was magnificent to pick up from where we left off in 2011, there are not many people with whom one may do this and it’s a true joy. This year we stayed again at the Towers, and sallied…

  • Sesquipedalian

    It’s difficult to know where to begin when posting, either there’s so much going on that nothing short of a 100,000 word dissertation will do, or there’s ……………nothing, tumbleweed, the sound of one hand clapping, a tree falling in the forest when no-one listens and that darn cat in the box. It is a truth…

  • Per ardua ad astra…

    …or at least via the A917. Yesterday the DB Astronomy Club was asked to host a star party in the grounds of the rather posh Fairmont Hotel near St Andrews.  It was rumoured that a local business man was flying in his dinner guests by helicopter from his private lighthouse (where do you land a…

  • Gang Forth

    Lovely lunch at the Wee Restaurant in North Queensferry today, with Rosemary. Having lived here for over thirteen years, and shared our lives with chums, we have many reasons for feeling ambivalent about the Forth Bridges, which I will not go into here.  But I took some pictures of the FB, resplendent in her fresh…

  • Normal service…

    ..is being resumed as soon as possible, if you do not know then let me advise that this site was hacked, massive thanks to Alison for alerting us.  Paul has been very busy working on it since then and the message as always people is back up, back up, back up. In other news, we’ve…