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‘Twas a Bank Holiday in Scotland yesterday, which just means we get a free day off work so we headed off into the highlands up to Braemar, favourite Scottish spot of our beloved Royal family who, thankfully, were nowhere to be seen!
Incredibly for the UK in general, Scotland in particular and definitely for a Bank [...]

Ouch, terrible pun sorry. The last few days have been spent doing an 1100 mile circuit of the UK heading back down to Northamptonshire where we used to live, to see our ex-neighbours and (current!) friends Andrew & Caroline.
Although the traveling was OK, the weather was generally awful, with strong, cold winds and driving [...]

Nostalgia ahoy! The Retroist.
Thanks to the glory of Stumble I’ve just found this blog, where if you’re of a certain age & geeky persuasion (ahem) you’re sure to find something to suit - Old Atari adverts? Yep. A clip from “North & South Book II”? He’s right, what did happen to the idea of the [...]

I remember reading some advice a while back that said you should never apologise for not posting regularly, or even mention that you hadn’t. So on that note…..
I have been up to little apart from workand then going out on weekends, so that does unfortunately leave little time for blogging. I used to do this [...]

Another week has gone by already - where’d it go?
Last weekend the one and only Henry Rollins came to Aberdeen for the ‘first time in 47 years’ as he put it. (Happy birthday on the 13th, Hank )  If you’ve never heard his spoken word stuff it comes highly recommended.
Basically this 47 year old [...]

Is it nearly Wednesday already?
We’ve been having some interesting weather this week, heavy snow that didn’t settle, lashing rain, sun & a hard frost and now back to rain and gales again. Fortunately when we headed for Scolty Hill on Sunday it was a day of blue skies and white frosts:

Here’s Pat [...]

Ooh look, it’s 2008. Yay. Woo.
Anyway, how was Christmas for yourself?
Too much food? Check.
Never want to see chocolate again? Check (Well, until the weekend anyway).
Gone back to work and can barely remember what you should be doing, or what people’s names are? I’m there…..
The boys had fun anyway, with altogether far too many presents, sweets [...]

I’ll be mostly eating…..

My favourite
Thanks to all of you gluttons for punishment who still make the thankless trek to this little corner of the internet - it’s always good to see you.
Hope you all have a good Christmas wherever you are, and that you get everything you want, or deserve whichever [...]

Who would have thought that our little boys could be 6 years old?

Seems like only yesterday I was holding Tom after they wrestled him free of his mum’s belly (he grabbed on to the edge as he came out) whilst attempting to wipe the amniotic fluid off my leg…… aah, what memories.
Tom got a Dinosaur [...]

I did last week when I told you about my new job - November the 8th marked one year in the life of this humble blog!
From my first post:
I doubt that this blog will be updated daily as some creative people can, but I will try for at least weekly, and promise to kill the [...]