Off to Peebles last weekend to see my parents – and go to part of Peebles’ second ever autumn food fair. Not quite the highlight of the social calendar that the spring book fair is, but a good enough excuse to go and support a local event. What I hadn’t quite bargained on was that …
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Black gold
Sometimes it seems I’m at my happiest when heading from A to B, with space to think up titles for blog posts, or the like. After much deliberation for this one, I settled on black gold. Would it be a hard-hitting commentary on oil over-dependence? Not really. An oblique Asterix book reference? Closer territory, though …
There’s no such thing as a free…
…Post-it note? But of course there is. A free pen. A free cotton bag. A free jute carbon neutral bag. In fact, a free policy booklet that you hadn’t planned on reading in the first place. Despite Scotland’s happy insistence on state schooling for the majority of its pupils, there’s clearly no such thing as …
All things bright and beautiful
Shock and amazement – sunshine two days running! Pretty much sun all day today! Any time now someone’ll suggest it’s a Scottish summer (apart from the normal three-days-in-May kind of summer we come to hope for). At any rate, it allowed for a bit of gardening yesterday, aided by my parents. With all the rain …
They call me baby driver
Not yet out and about, but the plan is to be out and about, as I’ve finally bitten the bullet and booked refresher driving lessons. Been looking at driving school websites, and for all that they say about refresher lessons, most of them don’t seem to be thinking of someone who’s basically been avoiding driving …