3 Beautiful Things – Scottish Edition

I’m at my parents house:
1. Catching up with my mum over whisky and water from the stream as we walk up the hills behind the house
2. Lobster, mussels and asparagus for dinner cooked by mum (we always have lobster when I come home – it’s a tradition…)
3. Lunch at the Ailean Craggan – the drive [...]

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It’s Still Broken…

I called the manufacturer today and managed to speak to someone sensible.
“Yes, I understand, it stopped working after only a few days. Not a problem, we will call your mother and arrange for a replacement to be delivered direct to her address and to pick up the faulty unit. I’m sorry she had so many [...]

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3BTs – WFH, weekend away and new baby…

1). Working from home when the sun is shining. The patio doors are open so I can here the birds singing, my music is playing in the background and I am getting through more here.
2). Planning for a weekend away. What I need, what I’ll do and how I will spend my time.
3). My neighbour’s [...]

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“It’s Broken, What Do I Do Now?”

Oh dear…
Mum has managed, somehow, to break her iPod dock. It’s not getting power to the display or to play the iPod. She’s heartbroken. Her woes were conveyed down the the phone much exasperation at what do do now…and what could I do to fix it. (I live about 500 miles away from my parents!). [...]

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Weekend Walking

The weekend has come and gone again. This weekend was about friends, food, fun and getting out to play with the new toys.
Saturday was good fun. Friends over in the afternoon for a barbeque (and football on the TV, some kind of cup match, I think!), little babies, bigger babies and sleepy friends.  We ate, [...]

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It’s the Weekend!

The end of the week. The weekend. Fun. Rest. Relaxation. Most importantly…a break from work.
At lunch today I went to the golf range with one of the guys and had a bit of a laugh. Imagine…long’ish hair, not tied back, jeans, golf shoes and a bag of clubs… It was interesting. One of the things [...]

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3 Beautiful Things – sheets, strawberries, and diversity

1.   Crisp, white, cotton sheets – freshly laundered. Nothing like them after a bath for an early night…
2.   English strawberries, eaten on their own, as they were meant to be
3.   Mixed groups of friends chatting at a party – diverse interests, personalities and backgrounds

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Better Late Than Never!

So, it arrived. Mum’s ‘iPod thing’ as she’s taken to calling it…
And, she’s delighted. I asked her if she wanted me to bring my external disk (with my music on) so that I could change the song listing and she said…’I’ve only played the first 100 songs so far’. It seems my mum thinks she [...]

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Biking…

Or rather the lack of it.
I managed to get out after work a couple of times recently. The sun was shining and the evenings, well, not quite balmy, but a darn sight warmer than this /last week. It rained all weekend…and it’s raining today. What this means to the inner biker…? That the country park [...]

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Recycling…

You know what it’s like, you’ve collected your things together, loaded the car and you feel good that you’re making the positive move to recycle paper, card, glass, foil, plastic, cans and even clothes.  But, you get to the local site to find it overflowing! Why is that?
 Our council tax has increased in recent years [...]

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