A couple of weekends ago, I got a call from my fabulous mate Janet, inviting me to climb Arthur’s Seat seat with her. Well as you all know, it’s been on my list of things to do since The Blindness Of Familiarity, and so without any hesitation (well, maybe a little bit, it’s one massive-looking piece of volcano-plug), I took her up on her invitation. Read more

I’ve been meaning to blog about this for ages… I was walking to work a few weeks ago (as I do almost every day now) and my legs found themselves taking a different path to work. It was a gorgeous sunny day, and for once it felt like I didn’t need 16 thousand layers on to stay warm.

I had my camera with me by chance that day and took lots of happy snaps on my way to work, and when I found them on my camera today, I thought I’d take you on a little walk with me on the route that I now take every day. Normally I cross the Meadows, a lovely big garden with broad stretches of grass and tree lined paths criscrossing it, and on a clear day you can see The Craigs and Arthurs Seat. That morning the sun was shining brightly, and for once there was not a hint of haze or fog or frost in the air:
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Someone posted this on my favorite forum. You get to write Bush’s speech for him, but it’s actually harder to make him sound like an ass here than in real life.

Go to work people! Post back here with your results!!

I don’t remember if I mentioned it while I was in China, but I used to get sick there. A lot. I reckon I got a cold or flu once a month or so. Sometimes they’d just roll one into the other. Tonsilitis, laryngitis, faringitis. I had the works. However the upshot of that was that it bolstered my immune system to the point where I’ve barely gotten sick since I moved back to Australia. 18 months with hardly a sniffle (thinking back, perhaps I got tonsilitis once, but it could have been before I left for China). My theory has been that because most of the flu bugs come out of Asia, I got them all before the rest of the west, and thusly managed to stay ahead of the flus that hit folk on this side of the former iron curtain for the past 18 months. Read more