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A lovely afternoon in Pollok Park
Thank you for the kind comments on my St. Columba’s Day post. It is bedtime and I ought not to be blogging, but I just couldn’t resist showing you what a gorgeous afternoon it was today here in...
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Summer solstice, and Father’s Day
We had a lovely week in April, and a lovely week earlier this month (by lovely, I mean temperatures reaching the low 70sF / 22C – nice and warm for here). But the past week has been very chilly,...
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July!
Happy July, everyone! Today we are finally having a summer’s day, with warm sunshine. Yesterday it was warm and cloudy. The Dafter has been going through a hard patch of being even more ill than...
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Knowing how to live each season
My title is a loose translation of a comment Annie left on my last post: “il faut savoir vivre chaque saison”. She was referring to gardening, but these words apply to so much more in life. The...
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Sunshine shawl
First of all, thank you to everyone for your very kind comments about my last post! They meant a lot to me. And now for more knitting, and weather chat. Our summer has continued to be cool, even for...
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Lots on the go!
Somehow it’s been ten days since I last posted. Life has been full with one thing and another. My internet life has been slowed down by computer problems, which are largely sorted now (knock on...
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Floral blow-out!
We are not long back from a fantastic week on the Isle of Harris. The Dafter was able to come with us, as well as Gay, and we all had a great time. I will show you some photos once I get them – and...
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Holiday on Harris, part 1
This was our first trip back to Harris after an absence of four years (the Dafter fell ill with ME/CFS just after we went in August 2011). Prior to that we had been every year since 1996. In the...
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August with Katharine Stewart
Gosh life has been busy lately! Which – when I think back to the endless days of the Dafter being bedbound and so terribly ill – is great. School started on the 13th of August here in Glasgow, and I...
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Holiday on Harris, part 2
Thank you to everyone for your kind comments. This past week has been very full. The Dafter has continued to have ups and downs, but the ups include being able to study for, and pass, two tests....
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June blooms
Hello again and thank you so much for your lovely comments on “Crossing the Finish Line”. It is just marvellous to have that particular cloud of uncertainty and stress lifted from us. For the Dafter,...
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June surprises
I have often reflected that life is indeed full of surprises, many of them good. The result of the recent vote, however, was not a good surprise for our family. I will just say that many on both...
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A day trip to Holy Isle, off the Isle of Arran
I had another fantastic adventure last weekend! Regular readers might recall that two years ago our family had a marvellous holiday on the Isle of Arran. This past winter a friend of mine happened to...
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Nearing the end of July, already
How time flies! I can’t believe it’s almost the end of July. This summer has been fairly hard work for the Dafter, and thus for me, but it’s been a good summer. Once she got past her exams and the...
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