Category Archives: Rambles

Bits and pieces provoked by moving through space, history, and the calendar.

Drop. Snap. Repeat.

Posted on 03 October 2012 by Isabel Gibson

I am under no illusions: finding the airport bus at Edinburgh International Airport doesn’t rate as an impressive adventure-travel story. Continue reading →

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Travelling Since 16 Hours

Posted on 30 September 2012 by Isabel Gibson

We have been travelling since 16 hours. We don’t want to eat. We don’t want to drink. We don’t want anything. Continue reading →

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Cheap and Good; Good and Cheap

Posted on 28 September 2012 by Isabel Gibson

One of a miscellany of short observations from a trip to Scotland. £280. I look again. Yes, that’s what it says. £280. In the last 24 hours I have slept, oh, about 4 hours max. My first meal of this … Continue reading →

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The View From Ten Thousand Feet

Posted on 23 September 2012 by Isabel Gibson

After hours of intermittent dozing in a space so cramped you couldn’t put convicts in it without provoking human rights complaints, my point of view is a tad jaundiced. All I want is to be once again in a place where throwing garbage on the floor is socially unacceptable. Continue reading →

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Love Never Fails

Posted on 12 February 2012 by Isabel Gibson

The over-abundance of tacky Valentine’s Day gifts leads to musings about the true nature of love. Continue reading →

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Try It – You’ll Like It

Posted on 05 January 2012 by Isabel Gibson

  Trying new foods? Forget that! How about trying some old foods again, for the first time? Being the 12th and last of a miscellany of short posts to mark the 12 days of Christmas.   In late November, just … Continue reading →

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A Tale of Two Russel(l)s

Posted on 04 January 2012 by Isabel Gibson

Being the 11th in a miscellany of short posts to mark the 12 days of Christmas. Moving with all the assurance of successful middle age, he walks to the front of the church and sits in the first pew. The … Continue reading →

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Cardinal Alert

Posted on 03 January 2012 by Isabel Gibson

Being the 10th in a miscellany of short posts to mark the 12 days of Christmas. A peripheral-vision flash of red catches the centre of my attention. One of the cardinals living somewhere in the adjacent linear park flits into … Continue reading →

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Cleaned Out

Posted on 02 January 2012 by Isabel Gibson

Being the 9th in a miscellany of short posts to mark the 12 days of Christmas. For those of us with the tidiness gene/impulse/obsession, this is a great time of year, when we can indulge in socially sanctioned tidying. Better … Continue reading →

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