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We Are Where We Are, and All is Well
Today was a blue-green yellow day. The north wind whipped itself back to Svalbard and had left us in deep hush. I have a favourite writing exercise;...
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No Regrets!
I was in my favourite shop TKMaxx, and I saw a beautiful, fabulous, strong looking all leather bag, in the men’s section upstairs. I looked at it...
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Trans.
About five years ago, my daughter bought me a dressing gown, I never shop from this shop. I wasn’t sure what to expect. The dressing gown was...
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We're All Just Trying to Connect
One of my many life lessons has been around 'Boundaries’. When you are boundaryless, you don’t know it. You may deduce that you are on the planet to...
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Does Not Play Well with Others
The Vinery is a community hub, based in the refurbished Victorian vinery (slanted glasshouse) previously part of the Duff House walled garden. The...
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Favourites
Aries Man (AM): What’s your favourite sandwich? Cancerian Woman (ME): It depends. AM: What do you mean it depends? It can’t depend. There’s one...
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You Have to be in the Mood for a Sound Bath
Winter Solstice 2019, I went to a gong sound bath in the Cowdray Hall in Aberdeen. Pardon the pun, but it was rank. Not just musically, but partly...
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Nervous.
My friend Louisa wanted to take me out to afternoon tea. I had never been out to an afternoon tea before. I have seen them on telly, and have seen...
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"Who Could be Selling Fish at this Hour?"
When feeling a bit blue or discombobulated, I usually find that a double bill of Bob Hope movies helps to bring back some perspective. Especially...
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"Sounds Like They're Saying Words"
It is several years since I last drove the road to Aberdeen at 4.30am. Since then, many farmers appear to have cashed in on the great wind turbine...
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