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Category: Family

  • FRB

    You will have seen that the Forth Road Bridge is closed until 2016.  Our collective heart goes out to the folks denied rapid access to the Kingdom.  We’ll let you back in when it’s open again.  Picture below for Ali , I cannot for the life of me manage to rotate it up the right way.…

  • Meditation

    I suppose I should really be putting something in here about recent events, but the fact that my – our – dad was not of the social media generation makes me reluctant.  I never really tried to explain Facebook to him and I think he would probably have been faintly horrified at the wannabe celebrity…

  • Dunroamin

    I have looked back at the most recent pages of btw and it seems that I keep apologising for not making regular updates.  I shan’t do that this time, therefore. Instead, some pictures.  We went, ironically as things turn out, to Bo’ness for the first time, and dropped in at the Motor Museum.  It has…

  • Next stop

    As most of my life is lived on board a train just now, some shots below from a wee half day out to Kirkcaldy, to view this most excellent work:- The Great Tapestry of Scotland There are some thoughts of my band After 8 Mince as well, we sing a lot of songs about trains,…

  • Lotus

    Some random thoughts after the first decent night’s sleep in many weeks, mainly brought about by a coming together or synchronicity* of events – I looked up concrescence** or concomitant but it’s more a timey-wimey thing.   Thusly: we put the winter duvet back on and stopped pretending that it was enough to have the summer…

  • Long Gone

    Poor old BTW suffers hugely from neglect some times, but like a small puppy is always stupidly glad to see me.  So, there are issues requiring attention everywhere we look just now, and I got up at 05:45 today so that I could weed the back garden.  Needless to say it is now 06:53 and…

  • Happy birthday Dad

    Aye well, if you know us then you’ll know why it’s been so busy out there and so quiet on here.   A lovely afternoon yesterday though, father’s day and Dad’s 99th birthday. Clematis are in for Mum – she tried for many years to grow a jackmanii against the rose trellis in Cambusbarron, and dad…

  • Downtime Abbey

    Well, it’s been unusually quiet here in Camp Chandler, Paul has had the cold from hell for the past 2 – 3 weeks and we didn’t manage to join the chums in Blairgowrie for the annual Folk Club getaway weekend, which was very disappointing but sometimes you just have to acknowledge when it would be…

  • Continuity

    Thanks to everyone who managed to come to see us on Friday,  we had a lovely afternoon and if anyone is feeling aggrieved due to lack of chocolate cakes, please pop over right now, any time, day or night, no need to dress up, although wearing clothes in some format would be appreciated.  Happy Easter…

  • Addendum

    With the frankly wonderful Lars Juel Kjeldsen, who steered us to a clear view of totality.