I’ve spent the last couple of days planning for a new community garden in Roslin with other volunteers. I’ve visited a nearby community garden, helped…
Today is not my birthday. But it does mark the day that I am older. Oh, sure, every day is a day that we are…
Life has changed so much in the last 16 months, but life has also been very static. Yes, everything has changed, and nothing has changed,…
Now that I am fully vaccinated and the COVID19 situation in Scotland seems to be improving, I am beginning to take baby steps back into…
It has been four years since I started taking tolvaptan for my kidneys and I thought it was time for another update – especially as…
I received my second dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID19 vaccine late last week and am now fully vaccinated against COVID19. After more than a year of…
Welcome to Mental Health Awareness Week! This year’s theme is “Nature as Therapy” and is a theme I can really get behind. I mean, I…
I met a man when I was out walking the other day and the encounter provided me with so much to ponder about life –…
After more than a year of various COVID19 restrictions, including fairly strict lockdown measures for the last three months, we are starting to “open up”…
Today marks one year since the UK’s COVID19 lockdown measures became “law” – three days after the “stay home” orders were announced. Since then, the…
Twelve months of (mostly) isolation. Wow! I still can’t figure out how that happened, given that at the end of Month Two we were still…
Regular readers will know that I have been (mostly) isolating since 13 March 2020. This is because I am on the shielding list due to…
Today is my 47th birthday and to celebrate, I ran 47 furlongs! Which I know seems weird, but I like to have a bit of…
It has now been eleven months since my COVID19 isolation began. Eleven months! That is just crazy. But then again, life during a deadly global…
Today marks ten months of isolation for me. And I cannot believe that I am still writing these monthly reflections! Yet here I am, as…
A new year means new goals! For 2021, my primary goals are all about holding myself accountable (to myself), creating and maintaining the balance between…
It’s time for another year in review. And what a year 2020 has delivered for the review! As I reflect on my 2019 review and…
Nine months and one day ago, I was making my way home from a work trip to England. That trip was ended early as offices…
This is it, people! This is the last month of the year, and the last month available to me to hit my 2020 running goals.…
I have been meaning to get my UK driver’s licence for several years but never quite got around to putting a plan into action. That…