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How to get the most of going to see the optometrist
It was our yearly visit to the optometrist this week, so we declared it a Day Out. This, then is how to get the most out of going to get your eyes tested. Choose an optician you know well and … Continue reading
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Tagged campervan, Day Out, Friends, Inveraray, Optician, Optometrist, photography, Tarbert
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Twitter the movie
Thanks to Lesley for blogging this. The trouble is I am still not sure that I get it.
Linlithgow Palace
Visited Linlithgow Palace over the weekend. The main impetus for this was that Grandie #3 has been acting as a Palace Guide during the summer holidays. (She is the one in red.) This was her last weekend of the summer, … Continue reading
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Tagged Historic Scotland, History, Lifelong learning, Linlithgow Palace, Scotland
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Retail therapy
Aha! Have found the answer to the political blues. Am off for some retail therapy at an antiques and painting centre. Only browsing, but lunch out on the way all being well. Have a good Friday.
Stress and incapacity
Occasionally I feel like giving vent to feelings of anger and frustration in this blog. To be honest, I don’t do it very often, mainly because I am the kind of person who sees things from all sorts of angles. … Continue reading
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Tagged budget cuts, incapacity, local authority, society, stress, vulnerable adults
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Visitors
Sons #1 and #4 visited with their families and overlapped for a good bit of yesterday. Hectic and enjoyable and thoroughly unmissable. The video camera added to the fun with my inexpert hit and miss version of filming and #1’s … Continue reading
Sunday Best
God……… are you there? Or here…….or where? Will you listen to my soul….. or help me find a heart? Lord….. of this day, of my life…. Help me to let go and love and accept and include all your creatures … Continue reading
Wildlife news and philosophy
It has been one of those days for wildlife………. not the wild partying kind of days of yore, but for seeing and getting news of the birds and creatures around us here. First of all I drew the curtains to … Continue reading
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Tagged deer, mink, philosophy, pied wagtail, pine martens, Sparrowhawk, wildlife
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Women again
Have a look here – for a way to combat injustice and prejudice towards women in the church. Thanks to The Vernacular Curate.
Settling in
Coming back to real life after our sojourn on the smallholding has been more difficult than I expected. First of all some problems with technology and then problems with myself. Think it must have been a bug, as they say. … Continue reading