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 […]
Entries Tagged as 'Scotland'
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 […]
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 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 […]
Tags: Cars·Electric Cars·Scotland
March 2026
April 3rd, 2026 · Comments Off on March 2026 · Life, Politics
After a January that seemed to go on for ever, suddenly we are a quarter of the way through the year already, and it has been an eventful month, full of big decisions. Jayne and I had a little holiday up in Scotland and inbetween visiting museums in Glasgow and doing a circuit of Loch […]
Tags: Scotland
North of the border
March 16th, 2026 · Comments Off on North of the border · Life
We were going to visit Rome for a spring break, but I gave Jayne the choice of Rome or Scotland and she chose Scotland, and was very excited about it. There were two main reasons for this. The first is that we have been thinking about moving up there and it would give us a […]
Flying visit
July 8th, 2016 · Comments Off on Flying visit · Life
I had a day trip to Scotland today to go to a meeting in Glasgow, which made it quite a long day, although not quite as long as that day trip to Hengelo earlier in the year. I have still ended up with a carbon footprint of clown-shoe dimensions though. It should have been easy. […]
The Scottish referendum result: a correction
October 2nd, 2014 · Comments Off on The Scottish referendum result: a correction · Politics
I missed all the fun of the Scotish referendum the other week because I was away on holiday, which for me means no internet news sites, no newspapers, no Facebook, no TV news, no Twitter, not even any RSS feeds. I did actually find out the result on the Saturday afterwards when I suddenly remembered […]
Tags: Scotland
Daytripping
April 26th, 2012 · 3 Comments · Life, Work
Wednesday was a bit of a long day. I found myself booked on a one-day course that was 100% mandatory In Glasgow And I decided to do it as a day trip. My four colleagues went up Tuesday afternoon, but I figured that since I live right next to the airport it was feasible to […]
