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The mild easing of lockdown- allowing cross Scotallnd travel and 6 to meet outdoors – has brought us our first visitors here (to the garden) at Glen Rosa [yes, the house has a name]. Oddly enough I’ve actually been to the “Glen” Rosa, it’s on Arran (there may be others I suppose), and it wasContinue reading “It’s a Dog’s Life (19)”

Some of you will be aware that I had a minor stroke two years ago. I have been very fortunate in my full recovery and return to my normal(?) life. At the time, I received, not only huge help from friends and family, but really first class care from the medical services, and a veryContinue reading “It’s a Dogs Life (18)”

“He is Risen!” – The traditional Christian theologist’s Easter greeting on meeting a fellow theologist on Easter Sunday, to which one should of course reply “He is risen indeed!” – The capital letter and the exclamaition both have to be sounded. This was my opening text received on Sunday morning, from a colleague, who whileContinue reading “It’s an (Easter) Dog’s Life (17)”

Featuring conversation with British Gaas in Saath Afrika (usually requiring 1 hour plus on hold to get through), and conversations with alternative energy supplier– whose name means “a very long period of time indeed” (refering to the waiting time to speak to their fractional better UK? based call centres),and email and text communication < >Continue reading “It’s a Dog Life (16)”

The story about British Gas…. (go make a cup of tea, its a long one) Moving house in the middle of lockdown is NOT reccomended. Quite apart from the missing support- moral, or otherwise of ones friends and family – and the opportunity to reclaim the many favours owed for previous flittings – there areContinue reading “It’s a Dogs Life (15)”

Well I got my first Covid vaccination as a special birthday gift. (It just happened to fall the day prior). Hooray! Of course it wasn’t at all straightforwards, just getting to the centre turned out to be an exercise in (to quote from Mr Prachet’s Unseen University) “Cruel and Unusual Geography”. Who knew that Sat-navContinue reading “It’s a Dogs Life (14)”

Given the above number; this should really be a tale of some ghastly mishap and subsequent escape from death with nothing more than an extremely inconvenient injury, (…like the time I got hit by the car, went over the roof, and had not a single mark on me… except the the spot where I’d bittenContinue reading “It’s a Dog Life (13)”

Mostly my “dogs life” is intended to come over in an self deprecatory and dryly ironic tone (I hope?). When life actually becomes a real trial, it is not always easy to sustain the humourous outlook (ironic or otherwise), although in many ways it becomes more important, as it’s the humour (however dry) that canContinue reading “It’s A Dogs Life (12)”

I’m a big fan of Christmas, not until December mind you. I won’t even mention the “C” holiday before that. It’s “Bah humbug!” all the way till Dec 1, then I become the Spirit of Christmas -Present (as opposed to past/future). “Ho ho ho!” (I have the beard and the belly). I’d like to sayContinue reading “It’s a Dogs Life (10)”

Boxes, my house is filled with boxes! Sady not the present kind with little bows, and tags reading to Dad from Santa… I recall that I asked if anyone was doing anything musical (at all) during Lockdown? Apparantly not, going by the absence of replies. I did however have one brief inspiration myself. I shareContinue reading “It’s a Dogs Life (9)”