I feel like I am getting properly settled in Scotland now. Jayne has now been up here a couple of months, and has started working, so everything feels more normal, and we are getting into a bit of a routine. Can it really only be about 6 months since we came up on holiday and […]
Entries Tagged as 'Life'
The last lap
September 29th, 2026 · No Comments · Life
Today was my birthday, and I reached the age that the Beatles were singing about on the Sgt Pepper album. Yes I am now 40 (in hexadecimal). My current plan is to retire when I hit 65 so this is now my last year of working, at least my last year of working full-time. I […]
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August 2026
September 2nd, 2026 · No Comments · Life
August was a very busy, eventful and momentous month, and very different to July. In July I was mostly in Scotland on my own. At the weekends I was really bashing my bus pass and going into Kilmarnock and Glasgow at weekends. In August I did not visit Glasgow at all – not the city […]
July 2026
August 3rd, 2026 · Comments Off on July 2026 · Life
July was a strange sort of month and quite lonely for me really. I have been up in Scotland while Jayne was in Crawley working out her notice. In some ways I had the better end of the deal because I was in a fully-furnished house (well, no sofa yet but enough furniture for one […]
June 2026
July 3rd, 2026 · Comments Off on June 2026 · Life
June is the month when I think it is fair to say that I really moved to Scotland. We are still in the process of moving bit-by-bit, but in June I spent most of the time in Scotland, while Jayne was mostly in England. She has been unhappy because she just wants to get moved, […]
May 2026
June 2nd, 2026 · Comments Off on May 2026 · Life
May was a mixture of being busy and of spending a lot of time doing not much at all. A lot of the busyness was to do with driving. After going up to Scotland to pick up the keys to our new place at the end of April I drove back down and immediately we […]
Zobitour
May 3rd, 2026 · Comments Off on Zobitour · Life, Music
I can’t believe that I wrote my little monthly summary of April 2026 and missed out the major event of going up to that London to see Les Négresses Vertes! I saw LNV a few times in London back in the day, but the last time must be more than 30 years ago. I knew […]
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April 2026
May 2nd, 2026 · Comments Off on April 2026 · Life
April was quite an expensive month. I finally got round to getting Jayne and I new phones, I bought myself a car, and we bought a house! The house is a big deal, obviously, and I will probably go into all that in a separate post. The rest of the month was pretty much business […]
New Phone Who Dis?
April 12th, 2026 · Comments Off on New Phone Who Dis? · Life, Technology
I may have noted how it feels like the more trivial a purchase is, the more time I spend agonising over it. In the last month I bought a car and a house. In both cases I got the first one I saw. In contrast I have spent a month or so dithering about getting […]
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New Wheels
April 12th, 2026 · Comments Off on New Wheels · Life
I make no secret of the fact that I do not enjoy driving and avoid it as far as possible. I maybe drive a car once a month on average and will usually walk, ride the bike or take a bus before I resort to driving. I do have a car, but Jayne uses it […]
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