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Charli

Mar 29, 20163 min read

Highways and By-ways

The plan had been to leave St Just at 0600 this morning, so I duly set the alarm for 0500 – and what shock to the system that was! Being...

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Charli

Mar 28, 20163 min read

St Michael’s Mount and Mud

St Just seems to have been by-passed by Storm Katy, or perhaps I just slept so well that I wasn’t really aware of the high winds that...

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Charli

Mar 27, 20162 min read

Wild Garlic

The clocks went forward last night. Hello SPRING! I remembered the clock change through my slightly alcohol fuelled and hazy trip to the...

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Charli

Mar 26, 20162 min read

Collective Nouns

We – He and I- have spent a lovely evening with my sister, M, niece, B and David. The sun came out as we arrived in St Just, in spite of...

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Charli

Mar 25, 20162 min read

City Centre – Sleeps 4!

I bought a flat in Cannonmills 9 yrs ago with the settlement from the end of my first marriage. I have had a wide variety of guests and...

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Charli

Mar 24, 20162 min read

Stones in My Shoes

I walk a lot. I like walking and have probably spent hundreds of pounds (thousands?) over many years on shoes boots and other suitable –...

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Charli

Mar 23, 20162 min read

Run

This morning I had the luxury of being unencumbered by Jack. He had a day off so I was able to run unhindered. He texted later to say...

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Charli

Mar 22, 20162 min read

Spiders

‘Ok Ladies and stretching over for a minute and a half, here we go…AAARGH’, that was the sound that greeted our ears as Lucy, our...

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Charli

Mar 21, 20162 min read

Break Out

I can’t believe it, I wailed to J the other evening during our Face Time chat, I’m 50 and I have spots on my nose and chin. I am lucky,...

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Charli

Mar 20, 20163 min read

Therapy

Like many of us, my brain struggles to switch off at times, and this is why I find writing so therapeutic. These blogs give me a channel...

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Charli

Mar 19, 20162 min read

Penguins, Puffins and Gannets.

Spring heralds the return of many a favourite seabird to our shoreline and nearby islands. The Bass Rock has been often been cited as an...

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Charli

Mar 18, 20162 min read

Radio

I love listening to music on the radio. Mostly Radio 2 it has to be said, but I do like a bit of Planet Rock of a Sunday morning. And if...

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Charli

Mar 17, 20162 min read

Up Above the Clouds

Extraordinary to think that Braemar was one of the warmest places in the UK today when temperatures here barely rose above 7’. Not only...

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Charli

Mar 16, 20162 min read

Diffusion

Diffusion -the spreading of something more widely. I was participating in a course this evening on Disability Inclusion Coaching, run by...

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Charli

Mar 15, 20162 min read

Boots

Yesterday morning as I was finishing my walk I noticed a very small pair of pink Ugg-type boots had been placed on the Children’s Golf...

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Charli

Mar 14, 20162 min read

There’s Always the Sun

There’s always the sun, The Stranglers. This was the song that greeted me yesterday and in spite of a cloudy, ineffectual sort of a...

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Charli

Mar 13, 20162 min read

Revelations

Without thinking I suggested that He and I went for a drink at the Nether Abbey on his way back from work. The glass of red Venta del...

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Charli

Mar 12, 20162 min read

Retail Therapy

I’m happy to admit that I can set myself a few rules goals and targets that only sometimes make me happy and sometimes hinder my social...

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Charli

Mar 12, 20162 min read

Happy Coincidences

Technically I started this blog before midnight – somewhere on the M8 heading East just before Livingston. Having been held up in...

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Charli

Mar 10, 20162 min read

Plant Life

I am itching to get back into the garden having given it a good clear out on Sunday. The pots at the back door were waterlogged, the...

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