It’s not much of a choice is it? Hopefully neither, in my own case, but it makes for a good title. The reason for mentioning this is a collection of mugs in a little shop which has just opened up on Canongate (lower reaches of the Royal Mile), with a cafe and a selection of …
Category archives: Reading
Cadge a gadget
I didn’t cadge one, officer, I paid for it fair and square. I just wanted a title for the post… Moving on from bargains to gadgets – you wonder how much brain activity lights up when you find a truly exciting gadget. Even though it may be said that men are keen on gadgets and tools, …
Some rom of my own
Ages since I last wrote a blog post…but hopefully that’s about to change. I am now the proud owner of my very own laptop…Many thanks to Dan who took my list of what I wanted it to do, read up for me, made recommendations, and even collected it today. The title is an attempted play …
Write here, write now
I’d love to say that I’ve done lots of writing this summer, after all my ‘I must write’ blog posts, but I have made a little start. I now have a notebook for writing. Some of it is just funny things that I see or come across, in the hope that they may form the …
Elementary, my dear
I feel a little retro in a much earlier sense. I’m finally reading some Sherlock Holmes stories, and yes, they are cracking! No, you can’t guess really what is happening, because Holmes does get to comment on things that you only hear about in the next paragraph, rather than Conan Doyle giving people more clues …