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    Surrogate Birthday

    I had a combo Halloween/Birthday celebration today for my birthday on Wed.  Funny that when I was a child I always had a combo party – but it was with Guy Fawkes night…

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    Mega Maze

    As I mentioned – we went to the Mega Maze at Cairnies’ for their Halloween spectacular. It was very scary.  Deeply, scary but not really for the right reasons.  It was all beautifully…

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    Halloween coming

    Not only is it Halloween, but four days later it will be my big birthday.  I won’t say how old I am but I was born in 1966. When I was a child…

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    Very windy today

    There was another one of these “named storms” today.  Personally I tend to think that these are an excuse for people making a fuss about things that they would have taken in their…

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    It’s coming, it’s coming…

    I was in Caulders this morning.  I like this shop and I enjoyed my “Roll and Square Sausage” and my flat white. But, my god, they have their Christmas stuff up.  It isn’t…

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    An Oddball whisky

    R has been having a go at buying whisky from an auctioneer.  This is apparently a “thing” these days where you bid on individual bottles and crates of the (in my opinion fairly…

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    Conkers

    When I was a child (1970s) conkers (note for foreigners – nuts of the horse chestnut tree) were a highly valued commodity – in fact we used to risk severe adult retribution by…

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    In his new home

    This is Luke the crocodile in his new home. You can see that my Mum is just as silly and soppy as I am. We even have a little shrine to the Gruffalo.

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    A further crocodile incident

    I made a further addition to the crocodile family – Luke who is destined for my mother’s home in Rhu. But before he left the three of them ganged up on our little…

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    Ladies who take tea

    R describes my occasional outings with other like minded female friends as “The ladies who lunch”.  Today we had afternoon tea, so we must be “The ladies who take tea” (obviously no verb…