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Comfort break – 100 words

March 21, 2023 By Ellen

Comfort break Toilets are ONLY for the use of customers it says over there on the wall between the hand-knitted stag’s head and the Tuesday pub quiz notice. Outside heather and pine and the long, long road make a mood board of purple skies and moisture. There’s a hunched cottage and light glinting from railtracks […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, family, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, cafe, creative writing, North Coast 500, Scotland

Indyref again

July 2, 2022 By Ellen

For me, it isn’t about whether Scotland is better off independent. The haze on a blue-grey day where mountains meet water will still catch my heart. Heather will still be purple in late summer, and men will still pretend to know more than they do about whisky. And that’s just fine. What fills me with […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned Tagged With: 100 words, indyref, Referendum, Scotland, sturgeon, union

Self isolation: Day one, things I’ve learned

March 17, 2020 By Ellen

It’s funny how the significant moments happen without fanfare, rather than to the big hulloo you think they deserve. Working from home this lunchtime when Boy Two came in from school looking clammy and pale. He flopped onto the spare bed and said: “Urgh.” He was shivery and warm, achy, coughing and tired.  Oh, shit. […]

Filed Under: boys, family, other things I have learned, review, Uncategorized Tagged With: boys, children, coronavirus, Covid 19, family, in my life, in the world, My Life, parenting, School, Scotland, self-isolation, virus, WFH

Scottish summertime health warning

June 25, 2019 By Ellen

School’s out. The sun’s out. The sky is blue. Birds are singing. Scotland’s tabloid journalists are rushing to tell us which exotic place it’s hotter than. (I just asked the Panther and it’s Morocco apparently. The streets are athrong with citizens enjoying the warm – like being on holiday, only you have to go to […]

Filed Under: My Life, The World, Uncategorized Tagged With: health, humour, My Life, Scotland, summer, The World

Things we learned from a brief trip to Aviemore

June 25, 2019 By Ellen

The weekend before last saw Boy Three and I off on a micro adventure and it was educational. Time is not a fixed thing. Once you start thinking about time as a linear, measurable thing, that’s when the trouble starts. You think it’s all neatly split up into seconds, days and minutes. Then, suddenly, you […]

Filed Under: boys, family, other things I have learned Tagged With: adventure, Aviemore, boys, Corbett, health, hot tub, in the world, inspiredbydave, Lagganlia, microadventure, Osprey, Scotland, women

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