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Ticking and tocking
“The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.” ― Leonard Cohen Have to admit there is a lot of truth in that, many people seem to take lack of sleep as a badge of honour and I have probably been guilty of that too. The truth for me…
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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…
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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…
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Braw Day
So, here we were in Aberdour today, on a bike ride (him) a long walk (me), and attending the opening of the new Harbour Art Gallery, down by the harbour, as one may guess. Sunshine, people outside in shorts and dresses, shaking their heads in disbelief as the mirk is pulled away, as if by…
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Long Time Gone
Yes, it’s been ages since I posted here, we have been busy again of late. I will post a wee selection of pictures below. So, let me review matters since the start of September. We have been on a terrific cruise round the Baltic capitals, to Stockholm, Tallinn, St. Petersburg and Kalundborg in Denmark. Stockholm…
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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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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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Shaken not shtirred*
FINALLY, around six months after I hung up a Nyger seed feeder, we saw goldfinches in the front garden today. These jaunty wee chaps are a joy to look at; their collective noun, as you will know, is a charm of goldfinches, and once or twice I have been privileged enough to see such a…
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A Rose by any other name
Vane Farm has been re-named. It is now Loch Leven Nature Reserve. I don’t recall being consulted about this, either as a long term member of the RSPB or a frequent flier, but I was probably investigating a scone at the time. I haven’t decided which I prefer yet, and since it was called Vane…
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Normal service…
..is being resumed as soon as possible, if you do not know then let me advise that this site was hacked, massive thanks to Alison for alerting us. Paul has been very busy working on it since then and the message as always people is back up, back up, back up. In other news, we’ve…