Snowy day today. I think I brought it back from visiting my Mum in Yorkshire.


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Because I am so lame, one of my secret pleasures in life is polishing my collection of silver. Especially the really grubby stuff. I really should get out more! I must have inherited the trait from my father as I remember him spending hours in our freezing ultilty room polishing medals and such.


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A couple of weeks ago, the boy and I snuck off to Glasgow for a couple of nights to combat the January blues. Wine on the train, luxurious naps, huge breakfasts of smoked salmon & scrambled eggs, fruit, muesli, toast & jam, a swim and a spell in the jacuzzi, primark purchases, sitting amidst Tim Stead furniture eating the most beautiful prawn and ( Read more... )

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I've been writing lots of lists lately. To do lists, to buy lists, lists of travel destinations, lists of new year's resolutions and lists of the qualities and experiences I want to have for me to become the person I want to be. I tend to go into rigorous list-making mode when I'm feeling a bit impotent and lost - nothing like it for focusing the ( Read more... )

Feelin strange at the moment. I feel both deadened and like a coiled spring just now and I really can't stand spending 45 hours a week sat at this stupid desk much longer. I'm not short of inspiration, for things I'd like to do, see, learn. But I just don't have time, and I hate the fact that I'm wasting my hours in a lameass job, trying to ( Read more... )

The new decade was heralded in flames - evidencing still further, Edinburgh's obsession with fire. I wholly approve.

Just before Hogmanay, a torchlight procession led by vikings snaked through the city and up to Carlton Hill.

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This is the cutest thing I have EVER seen. Makes me want to die of cute. Cute death fo sho.

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Stunning - do watch.

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