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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

‘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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...