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Things we learned from a brief trip to Aviemore

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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 […]

On getting dressed in the dark, sexual confusion and hair washing – things I’ve learned lately

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It’s a huge relief, I must say, to have let myself off the hook and returned to little trivial blog posts like this – but with a structure. You should try it. I could include that as a learning, couldn’t I? Make some rules for yourself, then keep them. But, actually, that’s not really healthy, […]

Things I learned from an all-inclusive holiday

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You know that really annoying advert about ‘going mahoosive’ on an all-inclusive? Yeah. I went on one though I failed to discover what mahoosive is or how to do it, I did learn a few things. This year, Boys One and Two were off with their father leaving Boy Three, The Panther and I to […]

Go Ape Aberfoyle: Hanging around in the trees

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“Go Ape,” the signs urge all the way through sleepy Aberfoyle on a slightly damp Sunday morning. It’s hard to imagine the crimplened coach passengers (the only others on the main road at the time) going even a very little bit monkey.    Pondering this we – Boys One, Two and I, arrived at beautiful […]

St Peter’s Seminary, Cardross – Doors Open Day

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Saturday morning saw us on the other side of the river at St Peter’s Seminary in Cardross. It’s a modern ruin – architecturally interesting but falling to bits. It’s about to be rescued so this Doors Open Day was the last chance to see it in its ‘raw’ state. The big boys and I had […]