The 2007 logs are out in the daylight for the summer ahead. Hooray ! The 2006 logs dried out really well last summer and were a pleasure to burn; they kept us nice and warm all through the winter ( Read more... )

Hello there, my updates on LJ have become increasingly sparse over the last few months ... so, apologies for that. I have an embarassing admission to make - I am a bebo-convert and have been spending a bit more time there than here. I feel ... somehow dirty ... please forgive me ( Read more... )

Since I last posted about my physio course, we've had two more essays to do, and a second placement. I scored a 5 and a 6 for the essays, and a disappointing 4 out of 6 for the placement. I didn't really get along with my supervisor ... she was a bit strange. Just my opinion. So, I'm averaging 5 out of 6 for the course overall. I'll settle for ( Read more... )

Hello, how are you ?

Before my surgery I loved cycling so much. When I couldn't ride anymore I wanted to stay in touch with my old cycling club and it sounds corny, but "put something back into the sport". So I help out at races - I stand around in a yellow jacket holding a red flag, looking like a prat and saying "hello" or "well done" to all the riders that ( Read more... )

Ok, so I'm crap. I haven't been here for an ice age, so for anyone who cares, I apologise ( Read more... )

Not much time to update today ... not much time to update any day recently as the work rate continues to be 'full-on'. I have to say something though, as some nice things have happened or are about to happen. First of all, puddock and I went to one of the many lovely parks in Aberdeen this morning (Hazlehead park) to the childrens zoo (cue predictable ( Read more... )

I forgot to mention sooner that a couple of weeks ago puddock and I finally built a woodstore for all our firewood to go in. All that wood I post'ed about last October had been in the garage over the winter and it was going a bit mouldy at the ends. I wanted to get it out as soon as possible, but the weather wasn't playing ball until the clocks changed ( Read more... )

... actually not the whole thing, but all the chocolates inside it. It belonged to puddock and was a present of long standing tradition from her Mum last December. Since she found out she was milk intolerant between the last calendar and this, it remained un-eaten ... until now ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I last updated, and since then I've been alternating between moments of complete panic where I think I'm losing the plot, to times when I feel like I'm coasting in 1st gear. Sometimes, these two extremes are separated by only a couple of hours, so it must be down to errors of perception ... one way or the other. Question ( Read more... )