I am wondering if that is the noise that a Russian crook makes when he’s helping himself to the credit in my bank account. I went on line to pay a bill the other night to find our account looking rather more pink than it should at this time of the month. Closer inspection revealed cash [...]
Archive for October, 2008
It is almost a year since a friend of mine, a fellow member of the local triathlon club, died from a brain tumour which she had battled for several years with remarkable good spirit. I found I couldn’t write about this at the time as it was not long since I had started chemotherapy myself [...]
Onwards and upwards
Published October 15th, 2008 in Boys, Highers, School and Standard Grades. 4 CommentsStandard Grades seemed so simple. Were they ever an issue? Did I ever worry that GP1 might not be working hard enough? Surely not. The fact that GP2 is sitting his SGs this year is really just incidental. Because, dear reader, we have Highers looming. I have written very little about GP1 and his meandering [...]
A bloggy good idea
Published October 10th, 2008 in Blogging, Marine biology, Scotland and Working at home. 4 CommentsI don’t often post about the work I do, having been jumped on from an enormously great height early on in my blogging career. Yesterday I was in Inverness presenting some work I’ve been involved in to the relevant SNH staff; this post isn’t about that work, before anyone gets excited, but is about some discussions [...]
The guilt complex
Published October 3rd, 2008 in Family, Housekeeping and Working at home. 11 CommentsWe’re the type of household that gets sacked by cleaners. You’d think that, working from home, I’d have all the time in the world to keep the house immaculate. When the children were babies, people used to comment about how lovely it must be to sit and work at home whilst the darlings played happily by themselves, slept [...]
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