Graffiti
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Saturday, 19 January 2013
Sky blue pink 16/365
Wednesday 16th January
Sky blue pink morning
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Sky blue pink morning
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Middle Reading Room 15/365
Tuesday 15th January
Middle Reading Room
Teviot House
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Middle Reading Room
Teviot House
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Trees and blue sky 14/365
Some blue sky and trees at Kings Buildings
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12/365
Last minute cup of tea and piano playing (music on iPad)
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Union of Genius Soup Cafe 10/365
Thursday 10th January
Lunch at Union of Genius Soup Cafe
Dinner at Howies
Music at The Traverse
Lunch at Union of Genius Soup Cafe
Dinner at Howies
Music at The Traverse
Wednesday, 9 January 2013
Buccleuch Place 9/365
Buccleuch Place this morning - a little bit of sunshine
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Tuesday, 8 January 2013
Old College 8/365 photo of the day
Old College
University of Edinburgh
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University of Edinburgh
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Monday, 7 January 2013
Saturday, 5 January 2013
Thursday, 3 January 2013
Wednesday, 2 January 2013
Banana Art
This is so typical of T2 (my son, now 19) - not that he is writing on fruit particularly as this is a common occurrence, but that he does it in neat writing and either an obscure sentence or in Latin etc. Obviously he gets told off for writing on fruit as no-one wants to eat it with his added graffiti but it is somehow not as bad than if he had scribbled randomly or written something rude or silly. Therefore the telling off is not done with any great conviction on my part as I (secretly) think it looks quite good and there is absolutely no point telling a teenager off for something that is not important or dangerous....
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Sunday, 30 September 2012
Conkers
In Cambridge yesterday with T1 (my eldest son) we were walking along into the city centre and we passed some conker trees. There were loads of conkers on the tree and on the ground. I immediately started picking some up and thinking wow, loads of conkers and no small boys with sticks!
T1 looked on, slightly bemused then said 'I'm not playing conkers with you, you know', 'why not' I said. 'Because I'm not a small boy and because there is no skill in playing conkers'.
He's right, probably, although I'm glad that I remember being really excited when young about collecting conkers. T1 then said 'I suppose there was nothing else to do in the 70s' which again was true. However he did then reminisce about how we used to collect conkers when he was little and how he had a little plastic wheelbarrow with lots of conkers in it :)
I said that we used to count them for numeracy skills. He looked at me disdainfully.....
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T1 looked on, slightly bemused then said 'I'm not playing conkers with you, you know', 'why not' I said. 'Because I'm not a small boy and because there is no skill in playing conkers'.
He's right, probably, although I'm glad that I remember being really excited when young about collecting conkers. T1 then said 'I suppose there was nothing else to do in the 70s' which again was true. However he did then reminisce about how we used to collect conkers when he was little and how he had a little plastic wheelbarrow with lots of conkers in it :)
I said that we used to count them for numeracy skills. He looked at me disdainfully.....
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Empty Nest - disrupted and alternative
Today should have been the first day of my 'empty nest'. Both of my sons have successfully gone off to university. This is an achievement that I have been aiming for and working towards for the last 21 years. Well, maybe not the exact goal of university but the aim that 21 years after your first child is born and 18.5 years after the second then they would both be able to live away from home if they wanted to.
So far so good but the only thing is that I have left home too, to go and work at Edinburgh University. So the empty nest still exists at home but I'm not in it all the time.
It has meant that lots of things have changed and I'm not sure how it's going to work out. At the moment everyone is good, apart from the cat is disgruntled as she has had to go to live at my Mum's and just come home some weekends.
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So far so good but the only thing is that I have left home too, to go and work at Edinburgh University. So the empty nest still exists at home but I'm not in it all the time.
It has meant that lots of things have changed and I'm not sure how it's going to work out. At the moment everyone is good, apart from the cat is disgruntled as she has had to go to live at my Mum's and just come home some weekends.
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