Yesterday I discovered Christmas decorations growing over our back fence – holly. Holly is a native shrub in […]
Category Archive: Journal
I love Saturdays. I feel so strong and energetic right now and the weekend is my time to […]
Elizabeth was invited to a birthday party today at Laser Tag which is by the beach. We don’t […]
Ben’s mother often makes panforte during the Christmas period and it’s one of the yummiest things I’ve ever […]
I love our Saturday bike rides to Highland Dance for Elizabeth followed by lunch at Newton Dee. My […]
Elizabeth has been off school sick this week and not wanting to make her walk to school each […]
For several years now I’ve been working on a family tree at My Heritage. Recently I discovered another […]
I helped organise an air pollution event in Aberdeen yesterday. This was a joint initiative of the Aberdeen […]
I’m so proud of this boy who was voted House Captain by his peers! Well done, Daniel. You […]
The AWPR still hasn’t opened. It has been beset by delays and no-one knows when it will open […]
Earlier this year I was reading the kids a children’s book on Scottish history. In it was a […]
A friend recently pointed out this 1973 essay on cars – The social ideology of the motorcar. It’s […]
It was parent-teacher interviews at school last night and I’m so proud of the kids. They’re just amazing […]
I woke up this morning excited to start my day. As Ben would say, “Don’t worry, you’ll get […]
We’ve published a page on Sustainability at my company and I’m very chuffed about it: https://www.awardforce.com/sustainability This is […]
We finished our weekend in malt whisky country with a trip to the Glenfiddich distillery in Dufftown. Before […]
It’s not often we get to see snow and autumn colours simultaneously but that’s exactly what we got […]
The Glenlivet whisky distillery is about 1.5 hours north-west of Aberdeen in a beautiful, rural pocket of the […]
We went to the allotment today and the kids harvested a couple of beetroots. The allotment is giving […]
We had a fantastic day today. I’m on holiday and this morning I handed over one of the […]
