Merry Christmas!

There are so many things I have been wanting to write about but I have been a Christmas misery this year.  For the first time in my life I had to work Christmas day.  I LOVE Christmas. But this year the run up to it just kept on reminding me that I would spend the …

Autumn Days

The clocks have skipped back over to Greenwich Mean Time. This weekend, before the nights began closing in in earnest and after a night of hammering rain, the clearest calmest last evening of sunshine impelled me and The Boy to get out to watch the light on the sea. I haven't been very eager to get …

Jai is for Jeillyfash

I've had a bit of a technological disaster of late.  My faithful computron, bought in 2008, finally went to the gadget graveyard.  It was on its second hard drive and hobbling along, wheezing, while it tried to keep up with the flashy decorations on websites these days and the emotional blackmail from sad google robot. …

Walking round in circles

Here is a post begun almost a year ago when, unbeknownst to me, I was about to leave Warwickshire and move to the distinctly greyer environment of Aberdeen city.  I tried to come back to this blog to write about the new experiences of moving to Scotland (the day after the referendum on leaving the …