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Writing this in 2020, I am divorced with one daughter and three grandchildren - two girls and a boy all under 7. I’m really lucky to live only half an hour away from them :) In 2010 I went into a particularly nasty perimenopause and was left with extreme fatigue which was eventually diagnosed 6 years later as chronic fatigue. In 2015 and 2017 I was seriously ill after very bad reactions and severe withdrawal from 2 different prescribed drugs. Life now is making the best of the ‘new normal’!
'How can I tell what I think until I see what I say?'
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In Which I Had a Bit Of A Breakthrough in Scottish Meanderings
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 Japes in Scottish Meanderings
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 Meanderings in Scottish 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 Meanderings in Scottish 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...
Jerusalema Family Style :) in Scottish Meanderings
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...
In Like a Lion, Out Like A Lamb in Scottish Meanderings
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 ...
For Want Of A Wiper in Scottish Meanderings
OMG it was sooooo nice to see the sun this week for a change! Sun and snowdrops - what could be better? I caught the last of the rays walking through a park in town this afternoon and the place...
Memories & Summer of 2020 in Scottish Meanderings
I almost thought I wasn’t going to get anything written in here this month because I had some really strange lurgy thing for weeks on end which mainly took the form of constant low grade nausea, ...
Trouble At t'Mill in Scottish Meanderings
I'm waaaaay behind on entries and have been ever since NoJoMo - my bookmarks regularly got up to 5 pages at that point and I thought after Christmas I would just spend extra time and catch up but...
School's A Lot Different These Days - Thank Goodness! in Scottish Meanderings
Is there anything more joyous than watching a child learn to read? I still find it amazing when Lily nonchalantly picks out which book she wants to read at bedtime - I don’t mean the one I’m awa...
And The Beat Goes on in Scottish Meanderings
I can't believe we're at the end of October already - despite the events of this year it does seem to have flashed past very quickly. Or maybe I'm just at that time of life! COVID Our numbers a...
Mother/Daughter Angst in Scottish Meanderings
I need to offload what’s happened between Nikki and I this month but I’m finding it really hard to do. So I think I might generalise to give the gist and maybe expand in my next entry depending ...
A Survey Doing The Rounds (with pics) in Scottish Meanderings
There's been a death in the family - the first of my generation - and it's rattled me - and Nikki pissed me off bigtime yesterday so I'm doing this survey instead. Might write about the other tw...
The One With All The Hugs! in Scottish Meanderings
Maybe don't read if you haven't hugged your grandchildren in a long time :) Things are slowly getting back to a new normal here as restrictions ease up in Scotland. Every week brings a little mo...
Yesterday and Today in Scottish Meanderings
Tuesday Yesterday you spoke to me pitifully. It's time. Yesterday you struggled to eat, walk, drink, sleep, sit, everything. And I knew. Yesterday I had to take you to the place you hate the mos...
A lovely tribute in Scottish Meanderings
Just wanted to share this. Heather is one of the daughters of my best friend - she’s a nurse and she posted this this morning. Isn’t that such a lovely thing to do for her? The funny thin...
Monthly Babble And A Survey in Scottish Meanderings
Who'd have thought we'd have reason to use these posters once again?? (and notice the price tag on it!) I'd heard rumours there was maybe going to be an easing of restrictions in the next week...
When You’re Trying Your Hardest To Be A YouTuber ...... in Scottish Meanderings
...... but your pesky little sister just keeps ...... I suspect she was responsible for that premature cutting out at the end as well. And don’t worry - Lily’s not doing anything with the vid...
Another New Addition and Illness in Scottish Meanderings
Baby Number 17 has been born in the family - Evangeline Grace Brown - born on the 16th February. (I’m very happy to see her first name has been shortened to Eva already). Look at this head of h...
2019 Year Survey in Scottish Meanderings
I really wanted to do the Decade entry because it’s been a pretty awful one all told but I think it would also help me get things in perspective. However it would take a lot of organisation, tim...
A Challenge for The Men (and Ladies) in Scottish Meanderings
I was out at Nikki’s last night and we finished our normal game of Scrabble earlier than usual - around 11.20 p.m. Normally it’s nearer midnight or 1 a.m. So we did something we haven’t done fo...
In Lieu Of A Proper Entry in Scottish Meanderings
I'm trying to keep up with all the Christmas preparations and the extra entries generated by NaNoJoMo - and failing miserably - so I went and added two new diarists to my list cos that’ll help!! ...
This, On The Other Hand, Is Very Definitely Fair! in Scottish Meanderings
There’s a Guardian Angel in my life. And his name is Karl. In summary: I was receiving a benefit called Employment Support Allowance - ESA (assistance for those who can’t work for one reason o...
