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K and I are alone enjoying five minutes of mellowness before K rushes off to shower and I rouse A and the whole treadmill starts again (speaking of which I should hook up the treadmill). I’m not as depressed as I thought I’d be (yet). Today seems new and shiny and different. I have things… Continue reading First Day Back

So, Kev’s gone back to work. Angus is at school. Gregor’s still in bed. And I have my brain to myself. I have really enjoyed Kev being here all the time. I wonder if that is sufficient motivation for me to write that best-seller? And is that ever the proper motivation? Well, maybe not for… Continue reading Motivation

Obama? I’m glad he won. I’d love to see him become president, although I think it might kill him (he seems too nice and too principled. And also half-black. Now that I think about it, it might literally kill him. I don’t know that this country of gun-toters has moved past assassination as a form… Continue reading On the Caucuses

Zencuppa posted this meme and although it’s so US-based as to not necessarily apply to me, I’m trying it anyway. I have been struck by how much more affluent the people I’ve met here seem compared to most people I knew growing up in the UK. This might help me see if that idea holds… Continue reading Affluence Meme

The Colonial is holding a benefit on Burns’ Night (my town recently embraced the Celtic way, after a kilt shop moved to town and alerted everyone to the fact that Scots know how to party. We don’t look like it, but believe me, we do!). It features a local distillery expert, the proprietor of the… Continue reading Whiskey, Cheese and Chocolate

One of my favourite authors has shuffled off, at the age of 82, hopefully to better things. George MacDonald Fraser is probably most famous for writing the wonderful Flashman novels (set in the heyday of the British Empire. Satirical, historical, hysterical). But he was just a great writer, writing everything from serious but engaging history,… Continue reading George MacDonald Fraser RIP

January the first, eh? A day for resolutions. It’s not hard to come up with a few: write every day, lose weight, pray more, sing more. I think those are good places to start. And I have plans: 100Words.net to start me writing more, Weight Watchers to help with the weight (and I know it… Continue reading 100 Words Redux