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Photo Memory of the Week
Coming Up This Week: A Monday/Tuesday Holiday
In honour of Canada Day 2025, here's a two-part video from 2022.
Posted: 2025 Jun 28
Poetry of the Week
The Only Poem
- Leonard CohenThis is the only poem
I can read
I am the only one
can write itPosted: Jun 28
Category Archives: Rambles
Drop. Snap. Repeat.
I am under no illusions: finding the airport bus at Edinburgh International Airport doesn’t rate as an impressive adventure-travel story. Continue reading
Travelling Since 16 Hours
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
Cheap and Good; Good and Cheap
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
The View From Ten Thousand Feet
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
Love Never Fails
The over-abundance of tacky Valentine’s Day gifts leads to musings about the true nature of love. Continue reading
Try It – You’ll Like It
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
A Tale of Two Russel(l)s
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
Cardinal Alert
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
Cleaned Out
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
Posted in Thinking Broadly, Through the Calendar
Tagged Christmas, Critical Thinking, New Years
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