March 4th, 2010

February 14th, 2010

And onto Part 2 of our Christmas Away. We went to Jordan on an organised trip with Explore. It was Colin’s parents idea and what a marvelous idea it was – scorching weather, fabulous company, delicious food, donkeys, camels and overall an amazing destination. Here are some highlights from the trip – not your usual set of holiday snaps, but then I’m not your usual kind of person…

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February 12th, 2010

This is a belated post as I’ve had a horrible start to 2010 and only just picking up the pieces and getting back to my normal routine. It feels odd that I haven’t blogged for so long, but I’ve been ill and so has my computer – I got the dreaded blue screen of death – luckily I found a local IT company who miraculously not only saved all my data and emails which I thought I’d lost, they also brought the computer back to life and made it shiny and new again.

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October 19th, 2009

Colin is now the same age as me [I'm 6 months ahead of him] and his birthday was a great day.

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October 16th, 2009

Colin’s birthday is fast approaching and one thing I wanted to make him this year was a pair of Joy Division oven gloves. Let me elaborate…

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October 10th, 2009

A while back I wrote a post about Colin creating a new piece of work for the Cupar Arts Festival based on the pioneering balloon flight by the 18th century Italian balloonist Vincenzo Lunardi. I also wrote about our first experience of hot air ballooning here. Well the past few months have been very hectic and traumatic and tiring and stressful but also amazing.

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October 6th, 2009

I spent a really lovely weekend in Derby visiting my wee bro Nickerless at his pub Bar One. The last time I was down was when the pub opened and this weekend they were holding a party as the pub was going to be 2! I can’t beleive two years have passed since I was last down! I wish it didn’t take so long to get there by train or car or else I’d be down a lot more often.

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October 1st, 2009

I went to the park with the dog the other day and it was really windy – I got hit on the head by several conkers and so decided to collect a load. They were just falling to the ground and bursting out of their shells – so lovely to watch!

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September 30th, 2009

I’m listing this item on my blog so folk on the Fife based freecycle network can see what’s on offer. This is a piece of furniture we inherited with the house when we bought it. I’ve been using it for the past year as a table for my sewing machine, but have just re-organised my studio and decided that I don’t have room for it anymore. I’m going to miss the drawers as I filled them to the brim with fabric, wool, thred and all my sewing paraphenalia – not sure where that’s going to go now.

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September 25th, 2009

Yesterday I set off towards Edinburgh very early in the morning as I had an appointment at the Royal Infirmary at 9am. I was ushered into a small cubicle and asked to change into a hospital gown and then led into the x-ray department and into a small room. There was a large monitor with Milo/Evie displayed in the centre of the screen. I was introduced to the nurses and then the x-ray lady came through and explained the procedure in full detail.

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