In this life

Thursday seems to be my blogging evening, since I don’t have any classes on Friday mornings and therefore have no urgent marking to do the n...

Monday was an Edinburgh holiday and the Husband and I decided to go for a little day trip. Not far: just to Fife, which is over the River F...

Earlier in the week, I decided to invite my Aunt Jean for a meal at the weekend. She’s a widow in her eighties, though she has quite an acti...

Well, as you possibly expected, we didn’t crash and we got home safely. I was glad we went. The bride’s mum and I have been friends since sh...

We're off to Bristol tomorrow at some horribly early hour, and thence to Bath, where the daughter of my best friend from school - from t...

This time, I resisted the temptation to look at my blog after writing it, until this afternoon, so as not to skew the stats counter, but th...

Daughter 1 has got me a stats counter. I can’t claim that the world as a whole is clamouring to read my wise words – in fact, really not man...

I tried to add this to the picture of the shredded tickets, but it wouldn't work. So here goes - two blogs within two minutes. I should ...

I tried to add these pictures to the blog about my daughter and her shredded tickets - she took photos to amuse her friends in emails - but ...

Just for a change, here are a couple of photos of my sitting room. You can see that my beloved garden is really quite small, with the back ...

Well, this is the garden, and where do I have to spend my days? In a rather dark office, proofreading correspondence courses, answering the...

Well, pride comes before a fall: Gina tells me that she and her husband ripped out lots of agapanthuses in their garden because they grow l...

The holiday went very well, thank you Els. It was quite energetic – all that tennis and badminton (once a day each), though I wouldn’t want...

There are few people more gloomy than a teacher in the last week of her holidays. It’s bad enough when you’re a pupil, but at least (as I re...

We’re off on holiday for a week, as from tomorrow. We’re going with the extended family to two lodges in the grounds of Crieff Hydro (see ab...

My two daughters are very different from each other, though they get on very well. Daughter 1 is dreamy and rather disorganised. Or at least...

My husband and I have just returned from a few days on the island of Bute, which is off the west coast of Scotland. We'd never been the...

The city from Arthur's Seat (a hill). It's sunny and warm today, as it was yesterday. Don't know the temperature, but it must be...

At last I got round to taking Daughter 1's wedding dress to the dry cleaner's last week, and collected it yesterday. It's not th...

Many thanks to Dietgirl, Lainey, Anne and Gina for their kind words in comments about my previous, somewhat hissy-fit blog. They made me fe...