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  • Vanitas, vanitas, omnia vanitas

    Right.  It’s been a while.*  Need to add the password for this blog to my iPad so that I can post from wherever. Gorgeous day yesterday, we went to Vane Farm, looked around the refurbished cafe, not finished yet but we enjoyed a tasty lunch.  Then we climbed Vane Hill.  Once at the summit, and…

  • Phew

    We’ve been fortunate enough to see three nieces, two sisters, one nephew, one nephew in law, one aunt and one great nephew today, amongst others.   Plus two chameleons.

  • Manic Monday

    ….but lovely hugs from my nieces Fiona and Kerry.  Of such stuff is a golden day made.

  • Blitzed

    ..emm, a bit tired to think of a snappy title for the post, but otherwise well.  And there’s so much on the go!  I have shattered a shibboleth by booking a seat to see Madonna at Murrayfield in July.  I’ve discussed the Elton gig in Falkirk with  Margaret  (not going, too pricey and no longer…

  • Biz biz biz

    .. busy So, we went away for the weekend, amidst loads of other stuff and keeping in touch with family, but we had a couple of lovely days in Blairgowrie.  We stayed at the Altamount House, which hosted Marika and Rob’s wedding in 1999, thirteen years ago.   It was at a wedding subsequent to that…

  • Extensions

    It occurs to me, while I’m sitting here poring over the net, and the mail, and the other nonsense (okay, Facebook) that I neglected to mention one huge resurgence in my life.   Pilates was suspended for a few months, due to technical issues, until one day, during some very dark times at work, a…

  • Doldrums

    Well documented swathes of time can hang heavy in January, usually because of the continued short days and long nights.  (Other reasons are available). Should finally see the Cooks today, it’s been far too long. I have just checked my facts about the Doldrums, which I understood to be an area of the ocean (Atlantic…

  • They think it’s all over ….

    Happy Christmas/Boxing Day/Yuletide all. Been all over Central Scotland to family, and of course those further away are very much in our thoughts. We were supposed to share Christmas Day with the Cooks and Frasers, but poor Callum has got chicken pox just now and we all felt it best to give him space and…

  • Suite sweet

    Oops, not been here for a whiley, well, I had my appraisal to write up which consumed a lot of evening and weekend time. After 8 Mince had a very good gig at St Peter in Chains church in Inverkeithing; the audience was tremendously supportive  from the beginning,  and it was just one of those…

  • De nada

    As usual, on holiday now and wondering if it’s really such a good idea, should still be there, doing stuff.  God knows the list is long enough. New car tomorrow!  Blessed and much loved SK##, which has driven us on so many large, medium and small adventures, is growing old, so with a heavy heart…