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Commonwealth Games: being part of it

July 23, 2014 By Ellen

You’ve probably noticed. There’s something going on in Glasgow this week. It’s a little bit like an artist’s impression of some improbably marvellous futuristic city that has come to life. Clean streets and squares throng with smiling groups togged out in matching track suits like off-duty astronauts. There’s a sense of united purpose and anticipation […]

234/365 One of the best views in the world

August 22, 2013 By Ellen

But these pictures don’t really do it justice. I’m clearly going to have to read the instructions and work out how to do a panorama. Where is it? Oh. If you drive – cycle, or otherwise propel yourself – over the hill from Kilmacolm to Greenock you get this view. All of a sudden after driving […]

196/365 what do you do with the school stuff?

July 15, 2013 By Ellen

My boys are brilliant. Of course I would say that, wouldn’t I? But their teachers agree, when I see them at parents’ night and, then, if I wasn’t convinced by all that, piles, and piles, and piles of stuff comes home with them at the end of term. There are the works of art […]

120/365 Glasgow 2014: Volunteering for a good time…

April 30, 2013 By Ellen

Do you know what you’re going to be doing at the end of July and beginning of August next year? Generally more than a year ahead, I don’t have a clue. Only this year, I have a plan… whether it comes to fruition is now out of my hands. Let me explain. Today I had an interview… […]

The Richard and Judy photo

September 2, 2012 By Ellen

On the sofa with Richard and Judy There are some things you don’t want to inflict on your imagination, ever. Jeremy Clarkson as Christian 50 Shades, Geri Halliwell and Russell Grant doing yoga, or Richard and Judy in any form of intimate act.But then, weirdly, when presented with one of those images you just can’t […]

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