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Scottish Meanderings

by Marg

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March 29, 2014

Feeling The Luuuurve

I was away to write about the course I’ve been on run by the Scottish Recovery Consortium charity and thought some folk on here won’t know about the whole codeine thing so I’d better do an explan...


March 25, 2014

The Codeine Story

This is a bit of backstory to the reason I'm doing the Scottish Recovery Consortium course. Way back when I was around 14/15 or thereabouts I took a product called Feminax, containing paracetamo...


March 22, 2014

Fun Stuff, Clever Stuff

This is a sculpture erected as a tribute to Nelson Mandela. It’s supposed to represent prison bars to represent the time he spent in prison. Only from a certain distance away does the other cle...


March 08, 2014

Best Laid Plans ........

Well if ever there was a case for a Kindle I think this is it! Library books finished, I raked in the bookcase for something decent to read and found Monica Dickens’ autobiography ‘An Open Book’...


March 01, 2014

Living the i life

I have finally dragged myself into the 21st century by becoming the owner of a blue iphone 5C. I’m also awaiting an ipad Air which is hopefully winging its way from Amazon to my humble abode soo...


February 21, 2014

A Good Day Is Welcomed

Yesterday was an almost perfect day. Did something brilliant happen? Did I get good news? A windfall perhaps? Did someone I love tell me they thought I was the best thing since sliced bread? N...


February 17, 2014

Printing An Entry

Has anyone tried printing out an entry yet? When the original panic re Open Diary started last year I took time and printed out all my entries plus notes so that I would have a hard copy of my ...


February 13, 2014

Humph!

Daughters are hard work as anyone who has one knows. Mine disappointed me yesterday. Where I work there are these kick-ass gates which we have to padlock before leaving. They're the kind in 2 ...


February 08, 2014

Trying Pics

Okay I’m going to have a go at uploading some pics to see how I get on. Lily all dressed up for Burns night last month complete with cute kilt (of course). Thinking she was too quiet one day Nik...


January 30, 2014

Another OD Defection

Well here I am. And very grateful to the 2 ODers who sent me Facebook messages letting me know of the imminent demise of OD which, although not entirely unexpected, still came as a shock. I woul...


Book Description

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