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  • Meles Meles

    “In the real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning.” F. Scott Fitzgerald. (Attr.).  To be honest I read that in a Snoopy cartoon in the 80s, back when I thought the Daily Mail practised ethical journalism.  And in the interests of veracity, it is only 02:50. I am surprised…

  • As you were

    Some more pictures, which have long rested in the family archive.   George Stephen, 1887 – 1962, Latterly Police Inspector,  Falkirk & Stirling Constabulary.           Betty Smith and Jean Miller, both Dip. Ed.      

  • Same, old

    Well, we did a hell of a lot of very difficult things in 2015 and it looks like the on-going trend is not to be bucked by any arbitrary, year-end, “out with the old, in with the new,” nonsense.  Some pictures below, before and above to document the sharing out of treasured memories, sisters will…

  • Sorority

  • Circulation

    There’s a word to think about, circulation figures governed my life when I worked for Menzies.  Movement of any kind in the transport sense is a huge issue for us just now and my husband had that full throttle last night as he attempted to get to Glasgow from The Bay,  and in the sense…

  • 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…