Non-fiction

Happy Christmas y'all

Happy Christmas Y’all The magic of Christmas is a concept that can elude the sophisticated. Life sometimes conditions those of us, “on the shady side...
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Shaking a Leg

Feel like I’m stiffening up on a daily basis. The thought of doing yoga in the cold mornings just makes me want to sit down with a nice cup of tea...
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Foggie Festive Fayre

Saturday was the Foggie Farmer’s Market. Not just a market this time, a Festive Village, behind the square in McRobert Park. Being inland,...

Consistency in Lists of Numbers

A measure of probability distribution for consistency in large lists of numbers is explained. If there are discrepancies it would be a sign of...
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Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Christmas (ii)

In spite of her cold, mum had rallied over Christmas and had been much more her old self. The warnings were never far away, though... The rest of...
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Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Christmas (i)

Another excerpt from my book about my time as mum's full-time carer during her last months of life. She confounded medical expectations by not only...
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A Pink and Lilac Day

Thursday’s walk wasn’t a pleasant one at first. The windfarm path, which is walled by giant gorse, has very few gaps revealing the surrounding...
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Fib

Am enjoying lighting the breakfast advent candle, at least this way I have some idea of what day it is. In theory. My mother was all taken with St...
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Bus Pass [and BPL, Don't] Go to Billycock Hill [but neither did the Famous Five]

Being a research-whisperer, and what with the wonders of the interweb, BPL discovered that Billycock Hill was in fact, an enormous ice-covered hill...
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The Feels

Have been feeling Christmassy since that dreamy agate day in St Andrews. Travelled home a day early as the forecast changed from 2 degrees to -7. The...