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…
I spent a bit of time today digging random holes, and I am looking forward to more digging in the future! Although, whilst the holes…
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…
Yesterday’s walk in the Pentland Hills was a history (and geocaching) trek in search of a WWII crash site and memorial on Hare Hill. It’s…
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…
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…
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…
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…
As hard as it seems to believe, I have been isolating at home for seven months now. Yes: seven months. And whilst I had been…
Today marks six months (half a year!) of my COVID19 isolation. It seems like pure madness that I have been (mostly) isolating for so long,…
I visited The Real World today so that I could attend a hospital appointment for a routine check-up on my kidneys, Bob and Dave. The…
Today marks five months since I began my COVID19 isolation at my countryside cottage. During Month One and Month Two, my isolation was just that: Isolating (but I coped)! Month…