We went to the Royal Garden Party at Holyrood earlier in the summer and had a very pleasant afternoon in the sun. Yes, the sun shone, a rare event this year. We didn’t chat with the Queen but did pass the time with some friends we bumped into. I didn’t eat the cucumber sandwiches but [...]
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Royal connections
Published August 25th, 2008 in Boys, Communication, East Lothian and Edinburgh. 3 CommentsTutors - help!
Published June 27th, 2008 in Boys, East Lothian, Edinburgh, SQA and School. 0 CommentsSchool’s out. It’s the last day of term. Yay!
But there’s a small problem, and I know I’m probably too late to post this. Everyone’s suddenly on holiday but we need to find a tutor for English Higher for next term. Can anyone in the East Lothian/Edinburgh area point me in the direction of anyone? So [...]
A thick, luxurious, cream coloured envelope stamped Buckingham Palace arrived in the post today. It’s an invite for GPD and myself to the Royal Garden Party at Holyrood Palace at the beginning of July. Why me? I’ve no idea. I shall make enquiries. I suspect, though, that Her Majesty must surely have encountered this blog in [...]
4916 chocolate brownies
Published May 27th, 2008 in Chocolate, Edinburgh, Running and ovarian cancer. 7 CommentsPhoto credit: Pille Nami-Nami
This post is an unashamed copy of Pig in the Kitchen. Hope you don’t mind, Pig; sincere form of flattery, as they say. But you might be able to adapt the recipe to your own needs.
And no, I haven’t eaten that many chocolate brownies this week. 4916 was my finishing position in the Great [...]
The Glass Menagerie
Published April 17th, 2008 in Boys, Edinburgh, Family and Standard Grades. 0 CommentsMy birthday is in January and this year, in celebration of my advancing years, we thought we’d go and play at being grown ups for an evening. So we went to the theatre - and it’s not even the Festival! Yes, we had to remind ourselves that there is theatre in Edinburgh outside the Festival. I used to [...]
So it’s done. “Done” may be stretching the truth a little - “started” might be a better description. The Great Edinburgh Run (5th May this year) has my entry fee and I’ve set up a fundraising page on JustGiving. All I have to do now is go and do it. Easy, eh?
I’ve decided to raise [...]
A secret handshake?
Published August 9th, 2007 in Blogging, Boys, Edinburgh, Islands and broken ankle. 6 CommentsLittlemummy, Mother at Large and Guineapigmum met up for coffee today at Victor Hugo’s. Perhaps there should be a special handshake for the secret - or very public - world of bloggers. It was fun to meet the faces behind some of the blogs I read and yes, we do have names as do our [...]
I’ve just been having a chat with Mother at Large over on her blog, where she suggested a Bloggers Fest to add to all the Fringe fun. This is not so much a bloggers’ fest, nor even an Edinburgh Coffee Morning, more a blogging mums’ coffee break. The Guineapiglets are playing tennis at The Meadows [...]
Another of those pleasant, restful weekends with lots of time in the garden? I wish! Instead we spent Saturday morning cheering our youngest round the Meadows on the Junior Great Edinburgh Run and I spent Sunday morning pounding (or should that be plodding?) the streets of Edinburgh on the grown up version. My run was [...]
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