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Scottish Meanderings

by Marg

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And not in a good way! And that keeping going with the one entry a month is going well so far isn't it?? Most of January was spent mainly trying to catch up with basic stuff - I did get to anot...


January 26, 2024

December And Bits

I've been trying to get this entry written for weeks now so I'm determined to make some headway with it this evening! December is always such a stressful month because I can't pace in the same w...


December 29, 2023

November Natterings

Happy New Year everybody first of all! I hope it's a good one for all of us but if it's not, at least we have a safe space to come and write about it! November started off with a visit from my ...


October 30, 2023

October Occurrences

I was watching the film 'One Hour Photo' the other night and Robin Williams as Sy Parrish in one of the voiceovers says "And if these pictures have anything important to say to future generations...


October 30, 2023

September Scatterings

I'm going to have to write differently soon 'cause I'm running out of alliterations for the months! :) So I turned 65 in September - and somehow 65 sounds a lot older than 64😳 I had a lovely bi...


September 30, 2023

August Offerings

I'm beginning to get annoyed that I'm having to go back and write about stuff that happened a whole month or more ago - thank goodness for photos on my phone because half the time I can't even re...


August 15, 2023

Jolly July

Well no it wasn't very jolly but the flies are all gone I'm glad to report. July saw us on the Big Hop Trail - a series of 40 colourful sculpted hares in locations across the north and north-eas...


July 31, 2023

June Sunshine

Which seems to be a very distant memory right now as it pours with rain outside and has been all day! I've been struggling quite a bit these last few weeks - I'm only active for a few hours in t...


July 02, 2023

May Family Get Together

July already - where is this year going! At least we've had some decent days weatherwise but not the very hot temps some places have been having as we always get a nice cool breeze here from bei...


May 28, 2023

April Showers

Not really much to report this month - April continued to be very rough so there's been very little done apart from the basics and sometimes these have fallen by the wayside as well so everything...


April 12, 2023

March Murmurings

God I've had a really rough month this last month with this withdrawal and it's really getting me down. Sleep is all over the place - either I don't sleep at all or I have a sedated sleep for 11...


March 12, 2023

February Fun

Trying not to listen to the negative voice in my head telling me we're half way through March and I'm already not doing well with my once a month entries this year. I did another cut of Mirtazap...


February 08, 2023

January Japes

Right let's see if I can make better progress this year. We started the month off with a trip to town to see the pantomime 'Cinderella'. We still had snow on the ground and the kids had come fr...


January 27, 2023

December at last

I seem to be constantly chasing my tail these days and never getting out of the bit - I'm determined to keep the 'one entry a month' goal going though so here's December's jollies. It seems weir...


December 30, 2022

A Pictorial November

I can't stand the thought of not managing to complete the year with an entry for each month so I'm determined to get November's entry in today at least then I might cheat and do a short entry for...


September 29, 2022

September Sorties

It's wild weather outside today - 'dreich' as my Dad would have said - a good Scottish word for dreary, bleak, dull or gloomy - it's pouring, the wind's howling, my ancient fence is hanging on li...


August 30, 2022

August Adventures

A bit late to the party this month due in part to me having a couple of unexpected appointments on the 31st when I'd set aside time to write this and then being Ms. Stupid on Thursday afternoon b...


At the moment I have to say it doesn't feel like a breakthrough - I had a rotten night’s sleep last night and feel a bit sick today so I’m not in the best of moods☹️ And my ancient monitor is fin...


June 30, 2022

June Japes

Here I am sliding in at the last minute as usual! No different in health this month - still lots of bad days and very few periods of feeling better. I'm grateful for them when they come though....


May 30, 2022

May Meanderings

I can't believe we're almost half way through the year already - where does the time go?? Healthwise, this month has been much the same as last - ups and downs - lots of frustration but occasion...


March 31, 2022

March Meanderings

So wish I had better news from my end in this month's update but it's just the same - worse if that's possible. Still just ploughing through the days, forcing myself to do stuff just to particip...


So the laugh of the month is the fact that, after shelling out to get my side of my neighbour's hedges trimmed in my last entry, she went and got them dug up 3 weeks later! Could have saved myse...


Problem is, the guy in charge of the sweet April showers in Scotland appears to have forgotten to have switched them off! I got my second vaccination on the 26th and had a similar reaction to th...


It all started with Four posting a video of religious fraternities dancing to Jerusalema which had gone viral - initially in Ireland I believe but then all sorts of workgroups and other groups go...


I’m getting a haircut in a month’s time! Never did I think I would be starting a diary entry with that as the excitement of the month :) Although the question really is whether I'm going to last ...


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Ramblings of a female sixty something living on the (very cold) north-east coast of Scotland.