It was confirmed an hour or so ago that today’s attack at Glasgow airport was an extension of the planned attacks that were foiled in London earlier in the week. Willie Rae, who is Stratchclyde Police’s Chief Constable, confirmed in a statement that the incidents were linked although wouldn’t go as far as to say [...]
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David, it appears, has reached an age where he wants to know everything and I mean everything! The other day he wanted to know how Iona was born, this morning he wanted to know why coal is black, other days he’s wanted to know why the sky is blue, the reason for wind, all sorts [...]
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Firstly, and most importantly (I’m feeling a little selfish today), we’ve had some good news for a change…actually it’s great news.
New readers may not be aware that we’ve been trying very hard to find a builder to fix our lintel since last September. Many brave builders have been and seen and have been frightened away [...]
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This morning David was playing with his wooden animals. They fit inside each other like Russian Dolls. The penguin has a puffin inside of it and so looks a bit like a mummy and baby penguin…to the uneducated that is!
David says to me:
“Look mummy, the baby penguin is coming out of it’s mummy’s tummy!”
He’s terribly [...]
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I’ll prefix this by saying I’ve never really been a religious person. I can’t say that I’ve ever given much weight to any of the theories that are banded about regarding where we came from and what we’re doing here. I understand that the good book of whatever religion you choose to follow has a [...]
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It’s been noted (by me mostly) that this blog starts in the middle of a story and makes reference to the start of that story without actually giving the details that would help people understand why. As the blog has developed it’s become clear to me that the start of the story is more than [...]
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David and I have been poorly for the past couple of days. The night before last he woke up several times asking for help to blow his nose. Of course, I duly attended to his nose because that’s the contract I signed when I became a mum…thou shalt blow the child’s nose at 5am, regardless [...]
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Ah the good old BBC. I was struggling for something to write about today until I came across this…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6766657.stm
I’ll detail the gist of the story here because it’s funny.
A sewer and road collapsed in County Durham due to a bra and knickers getting stuck in a nine inch pipe. The offending items had been flushed [...]
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So, tonight I came home to find that the neighbours had come back…I expect the police caught up with them on Saturday then. Since I was in my car and they seemed to be busy we didn’t talk…they looked at me, I looked at them, nothing to note there. I went into the house and [...]
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The things that I aspire to are simple things and I guess this might make me pretty boring to some people, for example the thing I want most right now is a house where I can shower in the morning rather than wasting my evenings away in the bath. Others may wish to aspire to [...]
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