Autumn, the time for new beginnings. New school terms, ok here in Scotland that happened last month but bear with me. A new title for my blog, nothing huge, but more what I'm doing right now, Edinburgh's the furthest I've travelled since December 2019. And I'm really not a positive enough person to always write…Read more Wave goodbye, stay hello
Blogging
Think of a number
One hundred and seventy two days ago I completed my first piece of 'writing homework'. Ninety nine days have passed since my last post. In this time I've watched 4 Finnish and 1 Norwegian crime dramas. I had forty six days during Lent when I didn't eat cake, chocolate, or biscuits. There have been far…Read more Think of a number
Playing with imaginary friends
I never did as a child. Have imaginary friends that is. If I'm honest I found it an odd thing to understand. But lately I spend each afternoon "playing" with my imaginary friends. Gilly, Jamie, Jeannie, Bee, Malcolm those are their names. "I'm real, play with me instead" I control their lives, their thoughts. And…Read more Playing with imaginary friends
The days getting longer
It's over a month since my last post, so much for good intentions. I'd planned on a post per week, obviously that hasn't happened, but have stuck to my to some other resolutions. It's Lent again so I've waved goodbye to cake, biscuits, and chocolates, three weeks down, three to go. I haven't been as…Read more The days getting longer
Paris
One of my favourite Tv programmes of the moment is "Call my Agent!", set in a Parisian talent agency, it's our French fix now that we've finished Spiral . I've written about these programmes before, twice in the case of Spiral. But watching Call my Agent! has provoked my itchy feet. I've missed travelling. When…Read more Paris
Contemplating weighty matters on my daily walk
Joking! It was more a free form meander. My walk on the other hand followed a path I've taken before. I started off by wondering how my sister was, she slipped on ice yesterday and fractured her wrist. And that started me picturing the road where she'd slipped. And thinking, when was I there last?…Read more Contemplating weighty matters on my daily walk
New year, new challenge
Well here we are three hundred plus days since the first big restrictions and twenty four into our latest lockdown. Days are falling into a pattern again , walk, lunch chores, read/craft/admin, supper, tv. Mondays are for quizzing, Tuesday is movie night, last week The Godfather which MrS had never seen, this week Mank, Mondays…Read more New year, new challenge
Television
Today a friend posted on FB that they hadn't watched TV for 39 (I think that was the number) weeks. If I were to guess I'd say that was around the start of our first lockdown. My friend posted this fact with a certain amount of pride and it got me thinking. Well more accurately,…Read more Television
Ringing in the changes
Almost a month ago I wrote a post about one memorable Hogmanay. Yesterday I got thinking about more of them, and started planning this post*. And then today I listened to reports of quieter celebrations around the world, and the cancellation of Edinburgh's "traditional" Hogamanay festival. Now I'm no spring chicken but I'm not *that*…Read more Ringing in the changes
Another happy coincidence?
One of my FB groups has a daily theme, on Monday it was "1989, your memories". My head filled with this song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V7SINjz96E it had been released two years earlier*, but became the soundtrack of my late '89. It's Hogmanay 1989. In my mind it's wet, but that doesn't matter. On the M8, it's dark,…Read more Another happy coincidence?
