Used

Reading time: 4 mins This may come as a surprise to some of you but, believe it or not, I’m not really that into fashion. I know, you’d never tell from looking at me, right?!! It’s not that I don’t understand fashion and the part it plays in society but personally I veer more towards practical clothing, even if…

Everything changes

Reading time: 4 mins We human beings are a strange and complicated lot in many ways, none more so than when something alters in our worldview. I know that change is viewed by a lot of people as a bad thing yet it seems that, when it is thrust upon us, we adapt to it far more easily than…

Rabbie

Reading time: 2 mins For many years my Dad performed at Burns Suppers; singing, reciting poems, or delivering various parts of the usual speeches, including the โ€˜infamousโ€™ Toast to the Lassies. Latterly he became involved with Dumbarton Burns Club holding various positions on the committee, and whenever Burns Night rolls around my thoughts immediately roll back to memories of…

Good advice

Reading time: < 1 min Stop trying to define yourself with negative labels โ€œLabeling yourself is not only self-defeating, it is irrational. Your self cannot be equated with any one thing you do. Your life is a complex and ever-changing flow of thoughts, emotions, and actions. To put it another way, you are more like a river than a statue.โ€…

NOT more to life than this

Reading time: 3 mins At present, I really only have three topics of conversation. 1. The dogs.2. The baby.3. Cycling. And no, they aren’t in a specific order. Of course, there is more to life than those three things (apparently?) – those on my Instagram can attest that I’m still treating myself well with delicious foodstuffs if nothing else…

Sad comforts

Reading time: 2 mins I’ve always admired poets, admired with envy as I gaze upon their words, the way they flow, the imagery they conjure, the emotions captured and delivered with subtle grace and ingenuity. Hell even just getting a few paragraphs that follow some form of cadence is a miracle to me. Oh yes, I’ve tried my hand…