Could this be me?
Postscript:
It’s me, it’s most definitely me. Does anyone fancy helping me make the application video?
Post postscript:
Seriously, now - yes, I’m being serious - is there a class anywhere in East Lothian that could take time out of the curriculum between now and the end of February to make a 60 second video [...]
Archive for the 'Out & about' Category
Dreams of paradise
Published January 12th, 2009 in Blogging, Out & about, Travel and Working at home. 3 CommentsThe Auchenstary Aspirants
Published January 9th, 2009 in Diving, Family, Friends, Islands, Miscellaneous stuff, Out & about and Travel. 6 CommentsI’ve been tagged by Lynne to tell you seven things. I’m not sure there’s much you don’t know about me, as I’ve already dumped a large proportion of my life into these blog pages. However, prompted by some old photographs I came across the other day, here goes (and apologies if you’re heard most of [...]
The days of Christmas
Published January 7th, 2009 in Celebrations, Chocolate, East Lothian, Family, Holidays, Out & about and Running. 8 CommentsOn the first day of Christmas my 3 boys gave to me…
…a basketful of dirty laundry.
So that would be GP1, GP2 and GPD.
It became a basketful or more after I collected 3 wet towels from one bedroom floor and 4 from another then went into the bathroom and threw a wobbly at the pile of [...]
Tri-ing hard
Published September 27th, 2008 in East Lothian, Ireland, Out & about, Running and Triathlon. 2 CommentsIt was Friday morning. The end of a glorious September week of sunshine, calm seas and early morning mists. At about the time that you were all settling down to your desks with that first cup of coffee or struggling with the first class at the end of a long week, I abandoned my duties [...]
Ocean Youth Trust
Published March 19th, 2008 in Boys, Ocean Youth Trust, Out & about and School. 2 CommentsI’m not a great believer in the children missing school for any reason. They really have to be close to death before they can stay home sick and it takes a family wedding to get them the last day of term off. But they’re both taking a week out in April to go with the [...]
Relax, it’s the weekend…
Published March 11th, 2008 in Chocolate, Friends, Girls' weekends, Lake District and Out & about. 2 CommentsIt was Monday morning, yesterday now. I woke up knowing exactly where my legs were. As the morning wore on I learned to identify every individual leg muscle. The big ones at the front - the quads. And yes, there were the hamstrings. And the calf muscles, especially the one just above the titanium-reinforced ankle. [...]
In praise of…
Published January 13th, 2008 in Family, Friends, Holidays, In praise of and Out & about. 2 Comments…London buses. With apologies to The Guardian. Lest I become permanently marked as a moaner and ranter, I thought it was time to write something positive. And I always enjoy the “In Praise of…” piece on the Guardian Leader page - an antidote to the ranting and complaining of so much media. I would like to write [...]
High days and Holy days
Published January 9th, 2008 in Blogging, Celebrations, Family, Holidays, Out & about, School, Standard Grades and ovarian cancer. 13 CommentsThis is going to be a very selfish, mean-spirited, churlish, curmudgeonly, whingeing and Grumpy Old Woman sort of post. There. You’ve been warned. For more enlightened, friendly, positive, cheerful reading you could try some of the links on my blogroll instead. Iota’s started posting again about life in the States and she’s always entertaining and currently much more [...]
Life goes on
Published December 12th, 2007 in Blogging, Boys, Miscellaneous stuff, Out & about, School, Working at home, ovarian cancer and sport. 9 CommentsIn fact, it goes on at such a pace there doesn’t seem to be time to write blog posts. And that’s with no significant work to do for a week or so. Bliss! Christmas shopping and meeting fellow bloggers without feeling that there’s something else I should be doing. Make the most of it. It won’t [...]
Time for coffee?
Published December 4th, 2007 in Blogging, Miscellaneous stuff and Out & about. 3 CommentsI know everyone else is working, or living somewhere more exotic than Edinburgh, but my desk is clear for the first time in years. So Mother at Large and I are meeting for coffee tomorrow at the Cafe Grande in Bruntsfield. 1030 if anyone else can organise a skive. I’m hoping we’ll be able to wander up [...]
Whacky science
Published November 8th, 2007 in Atlantis, Diving, Miscellaneous stuff and Out & about. 0 CommentsI’ve just read Salmon fishing in the Yemen which should, I think, be compulsory reading for all scientific civil servants. It was certainly compulsive reading, and very funny, with its descriptions of a whacky project to establish a North Atlantic salmon run in the Yemen desert, the inevitable political machinations that arose and the talk of big [...]
Life in the raw
Published October 24th, 2007 in East Lothian, Miscellaneous stuff and Out & about. 0 CommentsIf I had taken a camera with me yesterday, I could have shown you one of our beautiful East Lothian beaches - blue sky, golden sand, glittering sea. Today, now my sister has gone home, I went for a dose of Vitamin D along the path behind the house to the woods. I should have had [...]
Winter arrived in Perthshire last week or it felt like winter as the air temperature plummeted with a high pressure system bringing sun and winds from the north. Fortunately there was no rain to speak of and the water temperature lags behind the air, so spending several hours a day snorkelling around freshwater lochs was not as [...]
Conflicts
Published September 21st, 2007 in Children, Diving, Out & about, Wales and Working at home. 1 CommentI’m off into the wilds of Perthshire for a week or so, looking for Slender Naiads - no, not water nymphs but a rare species of plant that grows in some of the freshwater lochs up there. After that, I’m off to Wales, weather and engineers permitting, to dive on the only Welsh maerl bed, conveniently [...]
It may or may not be an urban myth that the Eskimos have a huge number of words for snow. After a week walking the sands of the Dyfi estuary in mid Wales, I am sure that the Welsh should have at least as many words for sand. Fine sand, medium sand, coarse sand - this [...]
I went on a skive masquerading as my own CPD last Tuesday - diving at St Abbs, ostensibly to break my duck and get in the water for the first time this year. In fact, to meet Jane who was over from Belfast for a few days. It was a lovely day and we had [...]
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