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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…
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Blood Makes Noise
Anyone who knows me, knows that encroaching deafness is one of my issues. Amongst other things it means that big gigs are out of the question since I cannot afford to lose any more sensitivity in my left ear. However, as documented, we recently went to hear Suzanne Vega in Glasgow and this song was…
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the ravel’d sleeve of care
Is anyone else finding it really difficult to sleep just now? And when I do, I have lollapalooza dreams. But how lovely to wake to a sunny day for once, with a gentle breeze. Admittedly this was at 04:18 but it is still fine now at 10:00 exactly. A moment’s silence for the dead blue…
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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.
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Ruby Saturday
Yesterday we were invited to Elspeth & Colin’s Ruby Wedding celebration, the venue for which was dad’s flat in Stirling, yes again, I think he may start to charge us soon. We drove through in frankly atrocious conditions, a trench of intense rain cloud was hanging over the central belt, and it honestly felt…
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Darkness stalks the earth
There is nothing I can say about the current dismal weather that will make one whit of difference, so I shan’t bother. Instead, we have been out and about; last weekend our intrepid traveller friend Rieko visited from Tokyo via London, and we went to see jousting at Linlithgow (noisy), the Falkirk Wheel (round), Brit…
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Haiku
Some days are golden. Some are golden, also long. Some are gently both. Oh come on people, that’s been up for days and no-one has pointed out the deliberate mistake.
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Space travel
Enjoying the first cup of tea of the day but not enjoying trying to work out if any of my direct debit payments are going to fail. I do not comment on work issues here, so see me for rant. Instead, the DB Astro mob went to Dunfermline yesterday for the gala day. There was…
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The b(e)at goes on
As indeed does the rain. Luckily it held off last weekend when we attended Ciara’s first communion and confirmation, and allowed us a very brief but interesting picnic in the Kirkgate park, Kinross. There was an exhibition there hosted by various local wildlife and history interst groups and if we’d known there was going…
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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. …