It is, apparently, Fairtrade fortnight. And we are, apparently, a Fairtrade region. What this means is that Boy One has come home from school with a very pretty, but entirely pointless, balancing dragon fly for me. He spent the change from his dinner money on it.Meanwhile, Boy Two has been on the stall at his school. […]
56/365 library lady
55/365 50p short of a shield
54/365 Monopoly but not as you know it.
Without Monopoly, London would have felt like an alien place. Really. Pall Mall and the Strand, Knightsbridge and all those stations. Their names are so familiar because of the game.Of course there have been lots of varieties – Disney, Star Wars and those created around different cities – but they have always been more or less […]
53/365 My kind of training
I took another step towards 10K success today… hence the photo taken from the window table at Tattie’s Bistro in Glasgow’s Otago Street, of course. Over meltingly wonderful cheesy mushrooms on toast, Deb and I discussed the progress of our training. Very good, thank you. And beside me, on the floor, in a bag, in a box, […]