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What the Glasgow bin lorry tragedy might tell us

December 22, 2014 By Ellen

Costly beyond imagining, but there must be a lesson in there. There has to be.  This morning I was feeling properly meh, my big Boys are away and the Panther of News is working this Christmas. I’m having a self-pity party with a Santa hat on it.  At lunch-time I had an appointment at a tattoo […]

Filed Under: accident, bin lorry, Christmas, city, crash, George Square, glasgow, shock, shopping, tattoo, tragedy

270/365 Seasons of mists and brandy liqueurs….

September 27, 2013 By Ellen

Dear Co-op, I like you, I really do. That’s why I visit often. Frequently, I’m found pondering what’s for tea or finding the one thing I’ve run out of in your sell stocked aisles. You’re handy and there’s parking. I love your loyalty card and the fact you send me a dividend every year – in fact, […]

Filed Under: Autumn, Christmas, Co-op, shopping

256/365 What’s on your fridge door?

September 13, 2013 By Ellen

I keep getting caught out by these dark evenings. Just when I’m thinking that I might go to capture the ploughed fields looking like corduroy or the first reds and oranges of the season, I peer out and it’s dark. And then I remember I never bothered to learn how to do half way decent […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, fridge, lottery, photo, recession, shopping, sourdough, tree

214/365 What’s going on in the veg aisles?

August 2, 2013 By Ellen

    There’s been a revolution in Morrisons. Previously there were shelves and faux market stall striped awnings to hold the carrots and cabbage. Then something happened. The bags of lettuce and racks of bananas had to bunch up (see what I did there?) to make room for the vegetables from outer space… Or somewhere. […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, sho, shopping

My life in chocolate

July 23, 2013 By Ellen

It started with the buttons. I suppose it does for most of us. Those delicious melt-in-the-mouth discs. Only they don’t really melt in the mouth, they melt everywhere else.  Boy Three shows how to let a Button melt Boy Three replaces his chocolate button eyes with, well, chocolate button eyes They might seem innocent enough, […]

Filed Under: Asda, Cadbury., Cbias, Chocolate, shopping

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