Had a good few days away visiting the family in Lancashire. Came back in time to beat the snow, but bought back a lurgy. Don’t know if it was a very bad cold or mild flu, but it kept me low for a couple of days after and has left me with a bad(ish) cough. […]
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Used my bus pass for the first time yesterday. A week ago, we pranged the car – not seriously, no damage done to us – and it has been taken away for inspection. Until the insurance company decides what to do, we are carless. So it was off on the bus I went hey-ho. I […]
Finally got my new camera – not the proper DSLR model I had hoped for (couldn’t manage to save up enough for that) but a decent enough compact digital. It was supposed to arrive a week ago but got lost in a Glasgow warehouse and arrived only yesterday. So far I’ve few complaints about it […]
….I really do have to get myself organised. I need to keep three websites regularly updated, and I’m falling behind with that; last week I bought myself a WordPress theme design book so that I can improve my web design skills, but I’ve not even looked at it yet; I’m trying to figure out how […]
So today me & B went off to Glasgow to get our month’s supply of recycled veg cooking oil that fuels our car. Our supplier, Dave, has just moved to to a new place, a rented house on a scheme. Driving around the place was a reminder of one of the many reasons we have […]
Blaahhhhh. After six hours of absolutely sound, deep sleep, got woken this morning by a headache. Within the hour, it it had grown into M I G R AI N E. The iron-band-around-the skull type, with added nausea and balance problems (an odd feeling that my feet were higher than my head, even when I […]
I’m coming off my beta-blocker for an experimental period. I’ve been on various types – for my tachycardia – for the last five or six years and none have suited me too well. Several gave me insomnia, nightmares and seriously disturbed sleep; a couple made me so dozy and apathetic that I found myself regularly […]
We have a library bus come round here, every three weeks – a big converted bus full of books that tours around the outlying rural communities. Sure, we can go to the libraries at Castle Douglas and Dumfries, and often do, but it’s important to keep such local services alive (and it’s great having a […]
Sid Rawle, the so-called “King of the Hippies” passed away, on 31st August. I knew Sid in the 70s/80s. I would run into him at free festivals, then I spent a summer living at Tipi Valley, the community that he helped to found. He told me that his mother had been a Romany girl, his […]
Have spent the whole day designing! Decided this morning that the Elfin Diary site needed a spruce-up before the shop site opens and next year’s Diaries go on sale. Didn’t ask Caroline about it, and haven’t heard what she thinks of it. But even if she hates it and tells me to put it back […]