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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…

  • 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…

  • Whether dependent

    First up a film –  Paul’s mum found this and I warn you, if you have not been to Scotland for some time look away now, because it will make you cry.   In a good way, and remember our cities are still full of litter and badly designed traffic systems, just like yours. Scotrail ground…

  • Al-Gharb

    Somewhat uncharacteristically we jetted off to warmer climes last weekend.    John & Yvonne are spending winter in Portugal and we thought we had better go and see them.  Never having been to the Algarve we were very excited, and once installed it felt like walking out of a black and white film into a…

  • Auld Lang Syne

    We twa hae paidl’t in the burn, From morning sun till dine; But seas between us braid hae roar’d Sin auld lang syne. That is my favourite verse from Burns’ poem, a masterpiece which is still being sung around the world as I type.  I have just been looking at comments on Facebook and I…

  • Happy Hogmanay

    ..is what Callum shouted to us this afternoon as we were leaving.  Couldn’t put it better.

  • Christmas Eve Eve

    Yesterday I could not log in, so I sent this out, but with a different picture. Grand day yesterday with old chums Diana, Caroline, Nigel, Emily & Julia. Lots of scones. A Poem There’s something up with banthewasp My website does not know me It’s quoting Errors, turns its back And says I’m not a…

  • Winter

    Glorious day here on Sunday, which happily meant a walk on the beach in Aberdour.  Hooray for that and for other  better news.  

  • Triskaidekaphobia

    …which will be blindingly clear if you have watched the Dr Who 50th anniversary episode. So, I was talking about the Kelpies and did I not find this beautiful picture on the Twitters, chap in Tullibody is a keen photographer, as evidenced. Elsewhere, we played another gig for the Mincers last night.   On the…

  • Statuesque

    Back to Northumberland we tootled, this time to Slaley Hall, to swoon once more at the autumn colours, and spend a lot of time talking.  Noted redwing and song thrush feeding voraciously in the rowan tree outside our bedroom window. On the Wednesday we went our separate ways, Paul to a star camp in Galloway…