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Never so apt a title as when I’m on right-through-the-night shifts, and the sun is blazing and it’s hot (in May! In Scotland!- two years ago there was still snow!*) when I’m trying to sleep. There are additional hazards; as the good weather inevitably encourages the “top down” drivers to play their music at volumeContinue reading “It’s Dog’s Life…”

Well, I waited because I was having a scan for “Retinal myopathy” (sandard check for all new Diabetes diagnoses) yesterday afternoon, and that seemed like the kind of event that would have some upset or mishap to report. In fact it went smoothly without incident, – I even (bonus result) managed to acquire a pairContinue reading “It’s a Dog’s Life…”

Nightshift can be a surprising source of inspiration. Inevitably there are times where the burden of work dries up, and long empty hours can pass slowly, only broken by the radio, and the ocassional false emergency (taxi equivalent of a wrong number). Other times a lively conversation can spring up on unlikely topics (once –Continue reading “It’s a Dog’s Life…”

Sometimes I get a hold of a very silly idea, and it won’t let me go; Maybe it’s a film script, maybe a book, maybe something vaguely like this really took place. Opening scene; a car parks hurriedly outside a large and brightly lit building entrance (a hospital?), It’s probably night time and definitely raining.Continue reading “It’s a Dog’s LIfe…”

Despite the incessant rain, Ben completed his 22 mile kiltwalk. Alone. Not that there were not hundreds (nae thousands) of other participants, but with neither mum nor dad able to join, and no pals in the event, I figure it would be much harder work to sustain resolve without someone to jolly you along, orContinue reading “It’s a Dogs Life…”

I join the queue with my single item – but, as the shopper in front of me is all but checked out with her overflowing trolley, there should be no real delay… “That’ll be £101.40 please” – ” Oh! that’s too much. I don’t have enough to cover that. I’ll have to transfer some money.”Continue reading “It’s a Dog’s Life…”

I was asked (or invited, might be better) to assist with the building of a Yurt. It was actually more of a rebuilding. I had visited it, in a previous construction, but it came to grief in some extreme weather, and has been waiting months for a replacement part to arrive from Mongolia (I jestContinue reading “It’s a Dogs Life…”

I was going to write about the joy of catching up with friends at a recent – significant- birthday party, where many well kent faces were to be seen. However, a select group of readers will be disappointed if I do not elaborate on a Luckydog moment from the preparations. [ People do insist thatContinue reading “It’s a Dog’s Life….”

This is not the post you were, looking for. You can go about your business, move along… My younger son (Ben), is proposing to take a gap year before university (possibly to give him time to decide). Inspired by a talk in school, he has signed up for Project Trust, which is a Scottish basedContinue reading “It’s a Dog’s Life…”

British Summer Time…. and the rain beats incessantly on the window. I should be labouring in the garden, sawing, building, (happily now done with the digging- for the time being), but my resolve dissipates in the face of the unending wet, and anyway the timber I need to use up (a slowly diminishing pile) isContinue reading “It’s a Dog’s Life…”