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Island Blog 107 A Change in Time
Well here we are on a Friday again and it seems like yesterday is was last Friday. I know that as we get older we find time passing more quickly, but even young and sprightly things tell me they...
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Island Blog 132
We never talk about shrimps up here. In fact, I don’t believe I’ve ever heard that word used anywhere in Scotland. Up here, across the tempestuous border, we talk about prawns, and they are quite...
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Island Blog 138 The X Factor
Talking today with my whale-watching son, we discussed, as we cleared out his garage and carted dross to the local tip, music and originality. He told me that there is nothing really original,...
View ArticleIsland Blog – Other Days and Puddles
I know I always sound positive, but I don’t always ‘feel’ this. I make the decision to be hit with shit and then to choose my next action. If someone, anyone, asks me how I am, I say… ….I. Am. Good. I...
View ArticleIsland Blog – A Crescendo of Growth
I can see it coming. The new shoots pushing through cold ground, like babies being born. One minute, safe, warm and dark, and suddenly thrust into the light, sharp, blinding. Flipped by the wind (or...
View ArticleIsland Blog – Anything I Want and Magic
Out walking this morning, something came to me. It made me laugh out loud, which thoroughly startled the air around me, sent little birds bursting up like fireworks and caused two doe-eyed rabbits to...
View ArticleIsland Blog – Friend, Ships and Wide Open
If I was to ask you – how many true friends do you have – might you have pause for thought? Let me help you out with a definition or two….. A true friend is always wide open. They may not be able, at...
View ArticleIsland Blog – Memory Thinks and Flying Colours
As I light the candles in my lovely sitting room, I remember how oft I have done this over the years, and not just here but everywhere I have settled. My home is a sharing place. I remember the faces...
View ArticleIsland Blog – After the Rain, Relation Ships and a Blackbird.
This weekend my daughter came with her girls. I know they all love it here, the freedom, the wild swimming, the spontaneous Let’s Do it thingy. Even I did that. Boots at the ready. My daughter knew...
View ArticleIsland Blog – Potluck and Possibilities
As the island opens up to visitors and there’s a load of thronging going on where not so long ago there were long stretches of nothing and nobody we didn’t know by heart, there is a natural...
View ArticleIsland Blog – Thinks and Daddy Longlegs
I have too many of them. Thinks, not Daddy Longlegs. I wonder how the name was gifted. I often wonder that. Was it something to do with the One Who Discovered? If this discovery had been made by a...
View ArticleIsland Blog – A 3 Frock Day
The wind is up and my wheelies are dancing. Only yesterday I freed them from their storm restraint, a rope affixed around their bellies and secured to my fence with chandler’s hook thingies that would...
View ArticleIsland Blog – The Quisling
There is an event coming, let’s say, and we are excited, a big birthday, a birthing, a leaving from longtime in hospital when nobody was sure that leaving thing would ever happen: perhaps an outing to...
View ArticleIsland Blog – Roots
The first time I set foot on this island and I knew I was home, not because of his story but because of my story, yet to reveal itself to me. How very far we can wander in this life, our roots keeping...
View ArticleIsland Blog – The House is Singing
The noise is spectacular! Five roofers gadding about, a mile high and as if the land beneath their feet was as flat as the tundra. They have performed this task before, methinks, so confidently do they...
View ArticleIsland Blog – It Is Enough
I am awake, early, before the sun is fully up, and I have slept enough. This day is my last in Africa and there is much to do. First off, I must needs park the panics, those fussy itchy thoughts as...
View ArticleIsland Blog – Homecoming
Oh I did not want to come home! The heat, the sunshine (dodging it a lot) at upwards of 30 degrees from sun up, the red sand, the bush, the Africa of Africa, the music, rhythm, even the mosquitos, all...
View ArticleIsland Blog – Thanks to a Horsefly
I’m here, back home and in the wealth of warmth. Well, warm, eventually, as the mornings can be sharp and bitey, requiring jumpers and leg coverings and a very good attitude to the shivers that...
View ArticleIsland Blog – We Got This
And, then, today. Children, including Little Boots, to school for nine (the older girls), and a new nursery for LB. A new nursery, strange people, other kids, unknown space and all, but she was in like...
View ArticleIsland Blog – Happy Days
Well, now I can say that I have had an MRI scan, instead of just hearing about others being pushed into a tube, ear plugs and defenders attached, and with much encouragement to remain completely still...
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