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I have to thank the lovely Sue (Blog Mum) for my gorgeous makeover. I'm happy to fiddle about with html and hack existing code, but I could never have made my blog look the way it looks today Of cou…
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Taexalia has posted a new entry on: Taexalia wild.life
RT @wildfreckle Red Kite chicks hatch in Aberdeenshire http://bit.ly/s21KR # Having post mountain immobility syndrome but for around 2 minutes nobody in Britain was higher than Mum and I with their f…
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Painting the ceiling # Ride hard x @NewTattoo in reply to NewTattoo # The White speckled look is the new black. # @misssym but you just got back from Canada! in reply to misssym # Just joined a twibe.…
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Amazingly my legs still work. # I love my phone and all the cute noises. On public transport I’m aware I’m the only one who does. Seems silent mode is unique to my phone… # It isn…
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My Mum and Dad have been known to do the odd bit of walking in their time. Their pursuit of height has seen them conquer more than one hundred Munros, as well as many other smaller hills and winding p…
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If we had known what we know now, the sound-proofing project would have been done in week one and before we bought furniture or unpacked any boxes. Watching new plaster dry is as stimulating and progr…
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I have wanted to visit Sandwood Bay for quite a while. In March 2008 we found ourselves at the top of the track in an unexpected and un-planned stop but the lateness of the hour meant we could not und…
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We have blue sky, sunshine, I’ve opened a window and it isn’t baltic… dare I hope? Typically I am stuck inside re-claiming the bedroom # When Sorry isn’t enough… Claimin…
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I am sitting on the patio, or is it the terrace ? For the first time since we moved the forces of weather and my own choice to abandon work and home creation pressures have converged to give me an aft…
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8am sound-proofing phase two begins. Chaos reigns. But it will cure 2am party wall bangers next door intruding on my life # Pieces of an upstairs partition wall just travelled out my front door. It so…
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A letter to my 16 year-old self, inspired by Sue Bailey and Stephen Fry… Dear Sixteen, I find myself struggling to begin this letter since there are so many moments that will come to you that…
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@theknickermafia ironic from the party who brought us the first woman PM. in reply to theknickermafia # @theknickermafia just read it. There is always an excuse when it comes to equal pay. Know this p…
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I found this little bundle of potential whilst I was digging out a small corner of the garden. I found two, but this is the one I took the photo of before I tucked it carefully back into the earth. It…
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iTweeting test… # RT @Natures_Voice: More on magpies from our newsblog - http://tinyurl.com/d2qyro can’t believe people want to cull a species! # Sunscreen. Don’t leave home without…
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Now that I have an actual washing green with actual washing poles and actual washing lines (ones that do not come with the probability of being accosted by a lecherous drunk) I have the pleasure of ha…
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I have discovered that owning land, no matter how small a plot of land it is, is not as simple as just signing the missives (how is that for a bit of link love?), stabbing a flag pole bird feeder in…
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Three weeks have flown by since we crossed that bridge when we came to it, in fact we came to more bridges than we anticipated, both literally and figuratively - the literal bridge, the Forth Road B…
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I was reading this article about the potential increase in costs, or perhaps the potential failure, of the Edinburgh Trams Project and I was struck by a few of the details… Now before I go on…
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This is a test post as I try out Wordpress from my new iPhone… Technology moment or what? Here is a photo of the view from my desk - everything is new around here… Slowly emerging from a…
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TWEET!!! # How crap are Royal Mail? How crap are Virgin Media? How weird is the void? Resorted to dial-up… how crap is dial-up? New house ace though! # @richardbranson I tell you it is a bloo…
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TWEET!!! # How crap are Royal Mail? How crap are Virgin Media? How weird is the void? Resorted to dial-up… how crap is dial-up? New house ace though! # @richardbranson I tell you it is a bloo…
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Despite the chaos of moving house, the boxes that are everywhere and the circular journey of things as they are moved from one place to another as we try to set up house…. I managed to sneak a…
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Movement is the word I chose as my theme for 2009, and movement is what I have been up to for the last couple of weeks - moving house involves nothing but movement from place to place and from dawn…
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