“What I did on my Summer Holidays”

For a light diversion, here is with what my son (in the black shirt) and his friend Brendan amuse themselves.  I must admit that this is being posted as an experiment to see how to insert video into my blog.  So, the title today is twofold:  I learned to do something new, and my son [...]

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Luddite

I can’t remember if it was in a post or in a sidebar, but a while back I mentioned to that I might be interested in investigating those podcast thingies.  Always eager to clue me in (I think I’m his “mentor an older woman” project), Kyle gave me some terrific suggestions and tips on what [...]

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Signs from the Trip

(drop over the wall head- 80 feet down to rocks and water)
and my personal favourite,

Later!

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St. Andrews and Home

If my pilgrimage on this trip was fibre, Mike’s was St. Andrew’s. So, our last stop before packing up to come home was the Royal and Ancient town of St. Andrew’s. Another castle, another ruined cathedral, and a look at the Old Course. (For those of you who think I am now [...]

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North to Skye

Because we didn’t want to subject ourselves to a Bus Tour, we rented a car in Glasgow.  We thought, Hey, we’ll pick up the car, hit the highway away from the crush of the in-town traffic and catch on to this driving on the other side of the road. 3 problems:
1. Highway? [...]

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Where was I?

Oh, yeah. We had just left Edinburgh, and headed by train to Glasgow. The highlights of that part of the trip had to be:
1. the Glasgow School of Art. I am a very uneducated fan of Charles Rennie MacIntosh (I may even have spelled his name incorrectly, but you get my general [...]

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Roller coaster

This last two weeks has been pretty strange. I have been dealing with all the feelings associated with a good friend losing her daughter, and right in the middle of all that, my older son called from Calgary to tell me that he popped the question, and sometime next spring/summer I am going to [...]

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Home again

We’re back from our big trip- got back last Saturday- but I haven’t posted before now because of a few circumstances.
We had a great trip. The time change coming home took more getting used to than I thought, as it’s been a week and I’m just now starting to feel like I’m sleeping enough. [...]

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