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Welcome To Night Vale – a strange night in Glasgow

September 17, 2015 By Ellen

Sober on a Wednesday night I was in Glasgow’s Old Fruitmarket with, among others, adults with animal heads, very overgrown scouts and my eldest son. It’s nearly Boy One’s 16th birthday and one of the things he wanted was to see the Welcome To Night Vale live show. And so we did. He rolled his […]

Filed Under: family, review, Uncategorized

Yes, and… let’s go to Edinburgh for the night

August 31, 2015 By Ellen

Edinburgh in August. Ugh! Crowds, idiots on unicycles and shouty antipodean jugglers. Why would you even bother? It’s a little bit like that if you’re trying to get somewhere around the centre of the city. Luckily for me, though, I don’t have to. It’s one of those viewpoints that speaks of world-weary got-the-t-shirt experience, rather […]

Filed Under: blogging, boys, family, review, Uncategorized Tagged With: August, boys, children, comedy, Edinburgh, humour, Improv, Maydays, Premier Inn, Scotland, Something happened in my life, summer, surprises, weekend

Is hot yoga something to sweat about?

August 7, 2015 By Ellen

Try anything except incest and morris dancing. Isn’t that how it goes? It was in this spirit that I was to be found on a Thursday evening dripping in sweat in a room overcrowded by underdressed and bendy people. Yes. Trying hard to avoid looking up the leg of the shorts of the chap in […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned, review, Uncategorized Tagged With: Bikram, Fionaoutdoors, Something happened in my life, yoga

Exam result day – managing the stress…

August 4, 2015 By Ellen

Not the children’s stress, of course. Mine. All day Facebook was bulging with proud parents telling everyone exactly how well their offspring had done. Which is great. Marvellous, in fact. I’m delighted for them. And, then it was time for the photo of shiny-haired teenagers jumping for joy. You know the one. Well you should, […]

Filed Under: boys, family, Uncategorized Tagged With: boys, children, Exam, in the world, My Life, parenting, qualification, results., School, something happened in my world

Reasons to love Scottish Weather

July 19, 2015 By Ellen

  You might have noticed there’s been some weather in Scotland these past few days. Wet and windy, who’d have thought it? It’s not like that happens every year, after all. No. Wait a minute? It does. It’s one of the very things about living North of the Border. You know? Four seasons in one […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: in the world, Something happened in my life

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