I am struck by my current blogging (in)activity. In the past I have had occasional interludes but nothing compared to the current downturn in activity. Mind you, neither have I had to endure a deluge of enquiries about my relative silence nor a glut of demands that I post again.
I suppose that, in part, this [...]
It’s pouring with rain outside.
Today was relatively routine – down to the barbers for a trim and then into town for a wander about although the only thing I bought was a sandwich for lunch. It was quite pleasant this afternoon and I spent a lot of it outside with an oil stone and some [...]
Further to my last, I was not only contented but also mellow this evening. This afternoon I bought a length of chain, some hooks and some tea-light lanterns. The chain was fixed between two of the uprights of the pergola and the tealight lanterns, complete with tea-lights, hung off it.
After a pleasant barbecue I stayed [...]
I am a contented man
We have had our aged and decrepit old paved patio replaced by decking with a pergola above. The pergola is bare at the moment but tonight, as I write, I am sitting outside with some tealights burning in the decorative lanterns on the table next to me.
Also on the table is [...]
A year and a half ago on my old blog I wrote the following:
25 January 2009
I’ve just had the oddest flashback. I was sitting on the settee reading science fiction and on the cd I had Camel’s Snow Goose playing. Camel are a band which lodge affectionately in my memory as being the first band [...]
…I was enjoying a quiet malt whisky to celebrate the birth of our first child Lindsay. Twenty one years later I am enjoying a quiet malt whisky to celebrate more than two decades of having her in my life.
Happy Birthday Lindsay, from a proud dad.
The journey home was long but attractive. We wanted to avoid any traffic problems arising from T in the Park adjacent to the A9 and the Scottish Open Golf at Loch Lomond so we planned a route which went down by way of Glen Carron, Plockton, Kintail, Fort William, Glencoe, Crianlarich, Stirling and Edinburgh.
Typically for [...]
4 July 2010 (at breakfast)
As the rain thuds persistently on the roof of the conservatory attached to our holiday cottage I can gaze out over the sea loch outside the window and appreciate once more the joys of the Scottish summer.
The trip up yesterday was leisurely and, for the most part, sunny and warm. Like [...]
And so it is the night before hols and this computer is shortly to be switched off and put away for a week or so. I do not intend to be anywhere near the internet while we’re away. Any blogging or diary entries for the next few days will be written in longhand in a [...]
I thought that I’d add another post before June ends, especially because I’m now on holiday and will be away next week. Not that you’ll notice because I haven’t been here much in the past two or three weeks anyway.
I’ll be up north in Sutherland where the mobile phone signal fades in and out. Of [...]
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