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On Thursday, I at last got my cardiology checkup. So it was off to Dumfries for the afternoon. Finding a parking space in the hospital car park was the first bit of stress. Finally, after circleing it for a couple of times, B dropped me at the main entrance and went off to carry on […]

…..another year older, a new one just begun… Anyway, I hope you all had a pleasant and peaceful holiday. For me, it’s back to work – well, I never really stopped, thats what it’s like, working from home – and I’m getting on with some of the backlog of Elfin Diary work, Astrological Association Diary […]

Yes, OK, I’ve not been posting for a while. Been busy – we’re making a start on the 2006 Elfin Diary, would you believe? And I have to get some astrological reports out. And get the January issue of Transit together. Aaarghh! But I took yesterday off for Yule. We had a gathering and feast […]

Saw the doctor yesterday, for my now-regular monthly checkup. I don’t think I’ve mentioned that in the last two months I have acquired diagnoses for angina, high blood pressure and an underactive thyroid. All that’s on top of my existing arthritis. Whoo hoo…. I now don’t feel so guilty about not doing the gardening. Yesterday, […]

… Gavin’s cremation was today. Really, one of us here, one of his neighbours, should have been there. But, nobody seemed too enthusiastic. Well, Carol was working, Graham is also working; don’t know about the others yet. We did think of going. But it is miles away, at Ayr, and we can’t really afford the […]

Our neighbour Gavin died on Friday. He had been ill for several months, with what was eventually diagnosed as cancer of the osoephegus. He’d been away in hospital for about two months, and died so suddenly and unexpectedly that his family were unable to get to his bedside in time. We didn’t know him well […]

I was up at dawn this morning – before dawn, in fact. We had a power cut here last night; it came back on just after four this morning. I’d forgotten to turn off our printers and they made a heck of a racket powering up. So I got up to turn them off, along […]

Just had an email from Roy Gillett of the Astrological association, about Transit: At Saturday’s meeting we will be discuss ways of making it available to more and more members. I’m not at all sure I like the sound of that. Though I can’t say exactly why. There have been rumblings amongst the ancient bearded […]

Had a pretty good Samhain gathering last night, around a blazing bonfire here at the Steadings. Not much ritual, but a fair bit of talking, and drinking and eating. Made our wishes over the flames…. It was dry, pity it was cloudy – the few times the Moon showed, She was a wonderful sight. Meant […]