Month: June 2009
Needing some shopping today, we caught the bus into Dumfries. We had three hours in the town before catching the bus back – what we actually needed to…
Didn’t have the TV on at all for most of yesterday. Got very bad-tempered at having my usual news programmes hijacked by the Global Jackothon (even Al-Jazeera was…
….not a lot. I’d had a really tiring couple of days. Friday I bussed into town to get some shopping, banking and bill-paying done, and managed to miss…
Still without a car, and likely to remain so for some time. So I’m getting in lots of walking. So long as I keep it to a sensible…
My iPod arrived today – wo0t!! It took me a while to figure out the touchpad controls, and I’m still trying to find out how to turn the…
…Sara Maitland’s The Book of Silence – an autobiographical essay on her search for, and meditations on, silence. I can agree with much of what she writes –…
…and we hardly knew ye…. Despite Buttercup being a low-slung Fiat, B would drive it along the most incredibly rough, rocky forest trails. On almost every trip, rocks…