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Butterflies, speaking Scots and the pouch of doom

February 3, 2010 By Ellen

Things I’ve learned from my children today. Butterflies taste with their feet. Boy Two sneaked into bed with me at stupid o’clock this morning. “Mum I’m going to tell you something you don’t already know.” I quite often ask the boys to tell me something I don’t know in an attempt to get them talking. […]

STV competition comes to a close

December 3, 2009 By Ellen

It’s the last week of the STV Write Factor competition. I’ve now written nine opinion pieces and now it’s up to the judges. The winner gets a six month contract to write a column.I have enjoyed myself. It’s been a total treat to get away from “proper” journalism and write about what I think on […]

Write factor final week

December 2, 2009 By Ellen

Is it hotting up? I hope so. Here’s my second last offering.

Drink – Scotland’s sacred cow

November 16, 2009 By Ellen

So the Write Factor competition over at the STV website trundles on. Today I wrote about Scotland and its attitude to drink and drinking. It’s always struck me as a bit strange that the nation is so very fond of – and good at – one of the very things that is killing it from […]

Funicular peculiar – a very red-faced moment.

May 12, 2008 By Ellen

We were looking for the fun in Funicular. The last time I spent a weekend in Aviemore, there was a big ugly concrete building full of go-carts and theme pubs. It was so long ago, it was in the time when winters meant snow and snowboarding wasn’t invented. Sigh. But this time we’d whooshed and […]

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