EAGLETON NOTES

We are almost a year into Covid being a common part of our lives. How the world has changed in that period.  The original lockdown was, for ...

The days seem to be flying past at an alarming rate. Saturday was another pleasant enough day and I carried on working outside doing mainte...

This is what my last post was really intended to be about. Much more mundane and requiring no thought whatsoever. My 'average day' ...

What a joy it was to wake up this morning. What a joy it was to wake up this morning and discover that I still had a broadband connecti...

On a day in March 2004 Gaz and I had planned to climb The Clisham: the highest mountain in the Outer Hebrides, at 799 metres (2,621 ft) the...

It rained the day before The Wedding.  The Scottish Highlands saw some of their worst floods the day after and yesterday.  The Day started ...

I know most of you will have seen this view before but I thought that, after yesterday's dreich photo, I would show the view from my ki...

I have so many posts in draft and so many from ages ago that topicality will certainly not be the point when I press the 'publish' ...

After our visit to the Cinque Terre which I described in the last post we set off along the Riviera Highway through Italy and France for An...

My son, Gaz, and his girlfriend are supposed to be going to Hong Kong tomorrow on their way to Auckland where they are due to arrive the da...

I may well have posted these photos before.  Then again I may not have done so.  Unfortunately memory is not one of my strong points.  In fa...

Today Gaz and I had coffee at the Woodlands Centre and then set off for a walk to the River Creed in the Lews Castle Grounds where the Cent...