If you make it so
This weekend I turned 35. I spent it with my brother - the first birthday with my brother. Despite growing up with a little sister (hi AJ) and having joint parties and sometimes presents (her birthday is 2 days before mine) spending my birthday with the little bro was something special. I never felt connected to my mother or or it – my adoption – on my birthday. It’s hard…
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getting some culture on, with added pig masks
It is not often that you will find me off the sofa mid week. Monday to Friday I find life pretty exhausting, bones and brain aching and body desiring nothing more than pizza and a box set. However, this week a catch up with a friend turned into an impromptu culture trip to the Edinburgh College of Art’s 2013 degree show. Now a long long…
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Camping on the Croft at Comrie
Car packed, tent ready, this weekend we finally got to visit Comrie Croft in Perthshire. It’s been on my to-do list since we missed out on last year’s camping trip. Whether you want to stay in their hostel or a Swedish kåtas, or to camp in a sunny field, or like us under the trees with a fire for company, Comrie Croft ticks all the…
Read More...I’m not cool, and nobody would want me that way
I started this blog just after B and I met. Right before that I turned 30 years old. Now I am about to turn 35 and this blog has served as not just a record of our relationship, but of my 30s. 5 years, 755 posts later… here I am, still going. However, a couple of the comments on my last post (thanks Sara-Louise) really…
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Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it
After nearly 4 months of marriage, the number of times I am being asked “how’s married life?” are drying up and the number of times I am being asked “haven’t you given up drinking yet?” are increasing dramatically. This question is of course polite social code for “are you knocked up yet?” decisions, decisions, decisions The answer is “no” and well, “if I was I…
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