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        Happy New Year          From an old Grouse.              Life will go on, live it carefully           All the best to you and yours ...

    Hogmanay, as you know, is not New Year! Hogmanay is the day before the New Year, it remains Hogmanay until midnight on the 31st and at t...

  This 'impressionist' capture of the moon (by 'impressionist' I mean 'blurred.') Is the only photo today.  Apart fr...

Amazing as it is, I am bored. Yes, I may have 12 books to read but I am not in the book reading mood.  I wish to go outside and wander in th...

  A Monday holiday as Boxing Day was Saturday.  The mist has hung around all day, though some sun appeared.  Dankness now reigns.  The thin ...

    Rising late into a subdued world it did not take me long to realise that in spite of a crammed freezer, in spite of a full fridge, in ...

While they were in Bethlehem, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths a...

The dreichness lessened for a while today tempting me to cross the park to seek what dim sunshine was available.  Leaping in and out of the ...

    Dreich Day indeed. It poured this morning, encouraaging grass to grow and weeds to sprout.  Suddenly, in spite of the weather forecast, ...

  I've never had a freezer like this before, packed to the gunnels (whatever they are) with meat!  The ageing freezer has been full but ...

BBC   At last the 'shortest day!' Naturally it is wet, chilly, dank, dreich and not improving the well-being of those venturing out ...

  I managed to finish a book!  No, not one of the colouring in ones, an actual book. During 'Lock Down' I expected to read all the b...

All this festivity began when a 14 year old lassie received a visit from Gabriel, the angel. Informed she would carry the Christ child...

New European Today saw the last PMQs of the year.  I ignored it.  The report however indicates that whatever the question Boris ignored it a...

  We have an electrician somewhere in the building.  He is 'finishing off' what he started some weeks ago.  'Finishing off' ...

    It was to be an 'Oven Ready Deal.'  There would be 'sovereignty,' we would trade freely with the world, 'our' fi...

A friend, I do have them, in a far distant land, shares cheap Christmas tokens with me each year.  One year I received a pencil with a knot ...