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Dreich!  It's always dreich at Christmas.  The cards may show lots of snow scenes, snowmen, and winter joy, but in the real world Decemb...

Pulling aside the filthy curtains I espied the day.  An occasional workman, you could tell by his outfit and his bag with sandwich lunch, a ...

Thursday and I am wishing the week was over! All this single malt drinking, all this Christmas cake eating, all this 'eat it before the ...

                                                                  Ship-on-stormy-seas-ivan-konstantinovich-aivazovsky This ship sums up the...

I had a Twitter debate last night with a man who considered life was better back in the past.  That is, he looked back to the early 50s, a t...

I have done some preliminary online searching, too early to actually buy things, and also accidentally ordered some books for myself.  These...

I have sat here all day trying to think of something to write. Nothing has come. The lack of stimulus, caused by not getting around, is tell...

  Well, I'm glad that's over. I have spent much of the past few days attempting to work out what day it is.  Either that or deciding...

  Greeted this morning by glimpses of vaguely pink tinted, yellow sunlight, attempting to break through the cloud cover.  This looked destin...

At this time of year there are lots of tinsel covered cards doing the rounds.  The religious ones tend to feature a baby in a wooden crib, c...

After last night I spent a short time cleaning up, returning things to a normal state of chaos and dust. I woke at 6am again, dozed until 7 ...

My opinion is that it is very cold. It has been very cold for a few days but last night, though the temp offered was no worse than before, i...

  Several of my attractive young neices and great neices went to an event in Edinburgh today concerning Christmas.  Naturally, I offered thi...

A quiet week, a week in which I decided to start Xmas shopping.  I like to have everything ready and off by December 1st, and so on the last...

  This is me today. Total wipeout.  Not able to stay awake all day.  Even a lunchtime snooze is not enough to lift this tiredness.  I suspec...

  The problem with having Christmas Day on Saturday is that many folk think Sunday is a Monday.  I am convinced some folks were half way to ...

   A local Tavern   Yes it's the winter solstice once again.  The time of year to celebrate the end of Autumn and the beginning of Winte...

 

Being the kind and generous person I am, and having been reminded that I am supposed to be 'thrifty' as a Scot, then I am happy to s...