Walking without Purpose
I had something of a revelation this past weekend. I mentioned in yesterday’s post that my oldest friend came to stay for a few days. During one of our many nostalgic chats over the weekend we ended up...
View ArticleWhere I Live
Lovely Michelle at The American Resident has just started a new linky called Where You Live, and this week’s prompt was ‘If I visited you for a day, where would you take me? One place. And why.’ How...
View ArticleBBC Edinburgh Fringe Poetry Slam 2013
For the last two years, DorkyDad has hosted the BBC Edinburgh Fringe Poetry Slam. It’s an exciting thing – four nights of heats, with six poets competing in each one, and the winner from each night...
View ArticleA Happy Harris Holiday
Imagine, for a moment, that you are a four-year-old boy. Imagine that your favourite things to do are playing with your cars and trucks, spending time with your family, and running around outside to...
View ArticleEdinburgh
So we are back from Edinburgh – the final stop on the whirlwind world tour that we’ve been making before the big move. It was an easy, sweet and comfortable week, which we spent surrounded by many of...
View ArticleThere is going to be a wedding
There is going to be a wedding. This July, back on the island where I was born, my oldest, closest childhood friend will exchange Miss for Mrs, although in true Scottish fashion she already shares a...
View ArticleAn Isle of Harris Holiday: In Photos
Howdy-doodle. We are back from a lovely ten days in Scotland. Two 35 hour journeys in less than a fortnight has not left me at my most eloquent, so I will save the write-up for another day, but I...
View ArticleThe One with the Referendum
Och. I was doing so well too. You have no idea how hard I’ve tried to be good about this. How often I’ve sat on my hands, and not commented, or liked or retweeted or shared or argued or said a single...
View ArticleTravels Part 1: Hobart to Harris
No matter how many times you’ve done it, there’s still something miraculous and disconcerting about strapping yourself into a metal tube and flying across the world. Airlines go to great lengths to...
View ArticleTravels Part 2: Edinburgh
It was time to leave Harris for the second part of our trip: a week in Edinburgh, followed by a few days in Helsinki, and then the long, long journey home. We’d said our goodbyes, stuffed things back...
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