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Impending Birthday
I never want to be this cool. Had a lovely day yesterday in the office, my desk had been decorated for my impending birthday, there were cards, gifts and a few tears. Having organised and taken part in so many presentations over the years, it’s weird to be on the receiving end, but it was…
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Gig
Played an interesting night in South Queensferry scout hut yesterday, if you can call a beautifully kitted out hall, with extra tent drying facility, on the shore of the river, in the middle of a marina, a hut. The girls thrashed the blokes in the quiz, and the audience, if noisy, were most appreciative, which…
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Human Rights
Go here to read the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Scots.
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Street View
So, Dalgety Bay – too posh to be on Google Street View, eh? Never mind, I have spent many happy hours already, looking up and down various avenues, boulevards, gaits, axes and err, streets. What does puzzle me is how they managed to find so many sunny days in Edinburgh.
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Nick
As you will know, our nephew Nick is on his travels just now, he has just spent some time on a detour to miss Cyclone Hamish down the east coast of Australia. I was quite disgusted to have to dig fairly deep into the news to find out anything about it, had it been in…
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Giant Stag
The giant stag sculpture is now outside Murrayfield stadium, painted blue and white. I tried to film it from the train but it didn’t come out very well, which is probably no bad thing as there is major incompatibility between this ancient web builder software* and any mpg files. (Yes Sooz, I know you gave…
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Peace
If only I’d known it was so easy to achieve.
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Beadnell
Just back from Beadnell, Northumbria, where we met up with everyone from the Discovery holiday. It was just excellent to be able to pick up from where we left off, after bidding our farewells in the Discovery Lounge back in August 08. (DL was the scene of our many quiz triumphs, btw.) Rosemary put us…
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Nick
Nick is now in Cairns, Australia.
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Coins
Can’t believe it’s nearly March and no sign of the new £2 coins in my loose change. At this rate I’m going to have to buy them from the Mint.