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Well I have to say; It was great to be playing with the guys again even if only in a studio. I do practise on my own, but, it just doesn’t hit the same spot. Yes, we, (well me) were a bit rusty, but I think we surprised ourselves by nailing some old numbers andContinue reading “The all new – It’s a Dog’s Life Today”

Three years ago!? How in the name of all that’s holy can that have been three years ago? I don’t know whether to be more surprised that it’s already three years, or that it’s only three years! It seems like a different lifetime, (before my stroke, before Covid, before Lockdown, before I moved…), yet there’sContinue reading “It’s a Dog’s Life Today – 3D”

Well, rather to my surprise, yesterday did turn out to be the productive day. The rain abated just long enough for me to do the critical outside work – connecting the garden toilet to the main sewer pipe . Not a pleasant job, nor with out some risk, but the planning and preparation paid off.Continue reading “It’s a Dog’s Life Today- Strikes Back!”

Well I dodged a bullet yesterday. After several phone calls with no result, I pulled the bike out, did the tyres, the chain, the gears, sorted my gloves, water, a map, snacks, and got underway. Ten minutes down the road I get a call back and , after a little too and fro, abandon theContinue reading “The Revenge of It’s a Dog’s Life Today”

Well after last nights late finish – maybe 11/ 11:30 ? I’m on my third coffee and staring with some satisfaction at the (as yet) unrecycled beer can, and the heap (3) of plastic trays that chippies come in, scattered all over the ….bin. I don’t have a plan for today. I’ve been kind ofContinue reading “It’s a Dog’s Life Today V (This time it’s personal!)”

Well that’s them away. In a very typically Scottish environment, I stood blinded by the April sun as I was scraping the ice off the windows amid the odd flury of snow. God speed… With my awesome “packing a vehicle” skill (one of my real superpowers), they all fit without any parts sticking out theContinue reading “It’s a Dogs Life Today Strikes Back!”

I got my pickaxe/mattock (not the same thing). A dinky one handed one, suitable for the task, and immediately uncovered a (sewage?) pipe. Thus work is paused. Carefully unraveling the lengthy strings of old garden lights, occupies a completely unreasonable amount of time, untill it occurs to me that – I’m not even going toContinue reading “It’s a Dog’s Life Today Returns”

It’s early, I was really hoping today would be the “long lie in day” but a run of 5 o’clock rises for day shift seems to have set in as a pattern, Tomorrow when I do need to be up, I’m sure I’ll be sound….. A vaguely weekly Dog’s life lets me digest and considerContinue reading “It’s A Dog’s Life Today too?”

I’m on holiday. Several days away from the coalface of public transport and accuracy, and as it happens, my wife, and slightly to my surprise, both boys, are going to visit her many relatives in the islands. I will be remaining here at Kilmarnock HQ with a lengthy task list, items of entertainment and personalContinue reading “It’s a Dog’s Life, Today”

I grew up in a house where the TV was the boss. We usually ate to the accompanyment of the News and “Nationwide”, and woe betide anyone who spoke through the weather. (Which was invariably; “possibly a bit of everything, with some rain” – that’s Scotland for you.) We had a VCR from my teenageContinue reading “It’s a Dog’s Life 67”