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Dougie
Apr 71 min read
And now, here is the news from BBC Scotland ...
Half a century and more, the signal keeps calling
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Dougie
Mar 316 min read
Give me the child until he is seven ...
In the immortal words of John Lennon ... love is all we need.
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Dougie
Nov 10, 20232 min read
Here we go again
Traveling on Australia's 20th Century train service between the nation's capital and Sydney then on to Glasgow with Spike Deane
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douglasherd5
Apr 7, 20230 min read
Good. Friday.
Pausing for a break from writing (not working).
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Dougie
Jan 6, 20231 min read
Week one done. Time to relax.
Gifts that never stop giving ... Christmas cake, a mug of tea and reading The Guardian.
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Dougie
Jan 2, 20233 min read
Her Majesty awaits ...
New Year's resolution #1. Do not drive the car into a ditch.
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Dougie
Jan 1, 20231 min read
Happy New Year
New Year's Day. Dooralong, NSW. After the rain.
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Dougie
Dec 31, 20221 min read
Happy Hogmanay
Driving home to Spike's parents for New Year.
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Dougie
Nov 27, 20222 min read
Sometimes work must wait
Down time. Sunday in Spike Deane's garden. Work can wait. We'll shake some different tree tomorrow.
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Dougie
Jun 15, 20221 min read
Ditch the ego. Just write.
You get up early on a day when the breeze has dropped and it's twenty-seven or twenty-eight degrees by breakfast. And your brother asks...
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Dougie
Jun 2, 20223 min read
Let Glasgow Flourish
We visited Betty again today for three hours. By the time we said our goodbyes my mother was tired. It was time for us to go. Betty was...
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Dougie
Jun 1, 20226 min read
From the sublime to the ridiculous
Today we visited the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum; Glasgow's finest and my favourite for all kinds of reasons (not all of them to...
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Dougie
May 26, 20225 min read
Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside ...
Sometimes the simplest delights of a long holiday are found in the most unexpected places. This morning that turned out to be adjacent...
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