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Island Blog 83 Travelling
Most of the time life is predictable to a degree. Not a huge degree, out of choice, for me, but there is something calming about a routine, until it becomes boring which is quite a different feeling...
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Island Blog 132
We never talk about shrimps up here. In fact, I don’t believe I’ve ever heard that word used anywhere in Scotland. Up here, across the tempestuous border, we talk about prawns, and they are quite...
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Island Blog 142 Back to the Sea
I have come to a conclusion. One I might have come to long ago but didn’t, not least because I couldn’t really explain it, should anyone ask for my ‘workings’. Workings are what art teachers demand...
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Today the photography volunteers have been given the name of their project. Minimalism. I watch them wander around the reserve, deep in thought, eyes looking down, eyes looking up, looking out,...
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Last night the gale began. It roared like a lion and punched at the walls of the house. I heard bits of masonry fall onto the conservatory roof which is plastic, and I winced from beneath the warm...
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I realise something and every something is something. For over a year I have been completely involved with myself and my situation. Although it is understandable, it is also, at times, questionable. I...
View ArticleIsland Blog – Wave away
I write, now, from a distance. It reminds me that memories are hot just once and that they quickly cool. It takes conscious effort to warm them up again, to pull them back into touch. I’m busy doing...
View ArticleIsland Blog – On Golden
This day it is warmer, even warm. I awaken into the morning, light already, the wind light and the sky bright. No flat grey this morning and no cold wind and I am thankful. It has felt for a while now...
View ArticleIsland Blog – About That Gasp
As I wander today beneath leafy boughs lowered by all the flipping rain, I look up to a bright blue sky. Not an ‘often’ thing here, not nowadays. Now that we have collectively and successfully stood...
View ArticleIsland Blog – The River and the Flow
It’s all about rivers here, these African days of heavy rain, unheard of they say, even those who have lived here since childhood. Times are a-changing and that’s for sure. I wonder how the river life...
View ArticleIsland Blog. – Present, Alone and Safe
Oh how I love my home, the warm, cozy, safe happiness of these four stone walls surrounding me and my wee dog. Since himself upped and died, I have not felt safe here, concerned about loneliness and...
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