2008 - Painting With Shadows

About Blogging Anniversaries and Celebrations Reflections

What? Another year gone?

. Here we are at the end of 2008, marked, as every year, by Savannah’s birthday (Happy Birthday, Sugar). As well as the usual births, dea...Read More

Guest blogging Weight loss

Damage Limitation

. I hope everyone has survived Feastmas more or less intact! I've been asked to Guest Blog over at MizFit . I guess it must have been ...Read More

Anniversaries and Celebrations Viva La Photoshop

Happy Festivities

. Whatever religion, nationality, species or level of cynicism, I hope you manage at least a few smiles this festive season. If you click ...Read More

Family Man Viva La Photoshop

Baby Cormac

. On Sunday we drove up to see the latest addition to the family, young Cormac. Needless to say I filled the entire memory card with photo...Read More

Appearance Viva La Photoshop Who am I?

Intimate Portraits

. What I love about portrait photography is it’s like having a dressing up box, only with facial expressions rather than costumes. I love ...Read More

Anniversaries and Celebrations Family Man

Grandad III

. This is it folks, I am now a Grandad three times over. On Monday 15th, at 4.45pm, my grandson, Cormac, was born, weighing in at a respec...Read More

Anniversaries and Celebrations Family Man If there is a God I'm doomed Religion

Happy Midwinter Celebrations*

. Santa, reindeer, stockings, trees with lights and baubles, acquisition of material goods to be had under said tree, turkeys, honey-roast ...Read More

Family Man Reflections

TV – choice, choice and more choice

. Around the middle of next year, this corner of Scotland is having the analogue TV broadcasting transmitter switched off. Subsequently we ...Read More

CFS / ME Mental and Physical Health Trying to make sense of my existence in the universe

Brain Fu.n..c...t....i.....o......n........

. Parts of my brain no longer seem to function to anything like the degree they used to. It’s a worrying trend. In some areas it’s differ...Read More

CFS / ME Mental and Physical Health

Wired for sleep

. “Would you like a cup of tea of coffee?” “Won’t that affect the sleep study?” “Not really, we only have decaffeinated here.” The nurse...Read More

CFS / ME Family Man Mental and Physical Health Trying to make sense of my existence in the universe

Travelling at the speed of life

. Mid afternoon: I’m slouched on the sofa drifting in and out of consciousness. Noises from outside and around the house merging and separ...Read More

Family Man Food

Siblings, photography and cake

. My stepdaughter, Holly, has been down visiting us this past week. She was 4 when I first met her; she’ll be 23 next birthday. I thought ...Read More

Down's Syndrome Guest blogging

Down Syndrome Barbie

. What could be more natural than a girl having a doll she can dress up and accessorise and dream of becoming? Or is Barbie a very narrow, ...Read More

Philosophy Trying to make sense of my existence in the universe Who am I?

Me vs The World

. “Has it ever occurred to you,” my mother used to ask, “that perhaps, just perhaps, if the rest of the world disagrees with you it might n...Read More

Mental and Physical Health

Avoiding Expert Advice

. I’ve just been reading “Professional Photographer” magazine (UK). I was hoping to get hints, tips and insights into improving my photogra...Read More

An embarrassing illness

. I can picture clearly my father yelling it was impossible to stop the car and my mother telling me to wind the window down and stick my h...Read More

Barrack Obama and the normalcy of difference

. Is the election of Barrack Obama good for just race relations in the US, or are there wider implications for the acceptance of difference...Read More

Messiahing is someone else's job

. One thing this ongoing Fatigue has finally driven home is I can let go of my Messiah Complex . When I can’t maintain righteous anger fo...Read More

Anniversaries and Celebrations Family Man

Hallowe’en

. For decades, at this time of year I’ve battled away with carving turnips into basic lanterns. And while the turnip flesh gets recycled i...Read More

Anniversaries and Celebrations Family Man

The Ultimate Answer to...

. It has been said 42 is the answer to the ultimate question of Life, The Universe and Everything. However, as my son Rogan pointed out th...Read More

Travel Viva La Photoshop

Shipwrecked

. This past week has been spent on the Isle of Mull, off the West Coast of Scotland. People we know have taken over a hotel in Tobermory a...Read More

Product reviews

. Sometimes my opinion as a blogger is sought after. Sometimes I’ve been asked to blog about a particular event or cause. Sometimes I’ve ...Read More

About Blogging Artists Family Man

Homeless…

. Rogan is 13 years old and really needs his own room. It’s been a toss-up between my study or Maggie’s art studio , and as she’s made mone...Read More

About Blogging Down's Syndrome Guest blogging

Filtering Friends, 5MFSN and DS Awareness Month

. October is in fact Down's Syndrome Awareness Month . I thought I'd better mention it to make sure you're aware. So, there you...Read More

Conversation snippets Haemochromatosis Mental and Physical Health

Ultrasound Scan

. “Is it a boy or a girl?” “Sigh…” “I guess everyone says that, eh?” “Everyone, yes.” “Can I get a photo of the ultrasound scan to take...Read More

Consenting ingredients

. If I had made black pudding out of my own spare blood, would vegetarians be able to object to trying it? Strictly speaking, no animals...Read More

Hole in my shoe

. I have a hole in my shoe. Not a big one that lets in the water and makes my socks wet, just a small one in the heel where it has worn th...Read More

Appearance Trying to make sense of my existence in the universe Who am I?

If the face fits, wear it...

. In my last post, when I put up a wedding day picture, quite apart from the not unexpected remarks about my hairstyle, both Pat and Mary ...Read More

Anniversaries and Celebrations Appearance

Lace Wedding Anniversary

. Today Maggie and I celebrate being married for 13 years. I've written before about how Maggie and I met, and why we decided to wed n...Read More

Food Haemochromatosis Mental and Physical Health

Blood Disposal

. That’s the 4th pint of blood removed from my veins in the past few weeks, and unlike previous times , this time I gushed – the entire bag...Read More

Echelon system now probably monitoring all my activities Trying to make sense of my existence in the universe

Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

. It seems the older we get, the more upset we become when things aren’t quite the same. The smallest of things can cause the greatest outp...Read More

Food Mental and Physical Health

Bramble Crumble: Before and After

. What? You seriously thought I could think of getting my camera out to take a photo while a Bramble Crumble was right in front of me, w...Read More

Down's Syndrome Guest blogging

5MFSN - is Sarah Palin One of Us?

. I've been guest blogging over on 5 Minutes for Special Needs again, this time dabbling in American Politics and whether parents of ch...Read More

About Blogging Epiphany

What Happened To The Greatest Blog Post Ever Written?

. I lied. .Read More

About Blogging Epiphany

Coming soon...

. I have the greatest blog post ever written lined up. It will answer the most fundamental questions about existence, and help to truly m...Read More

Miscellaneous Video

The End of the World is Nigh

. On September 10th, CERN will being an experiment to recreate some of the conditions created at the point of the Big Bang using The Large ...Read More

Finally relented

. As I sit here in not one, but two fleeces, the smell of dusty heating is beginning to pervade the house. It is the distinct aroma that oc...Read More

About Blogging Family Man Fatherhood Food

Seasonal adjustment

. It's that time of year again. Out with the children at the weekend to pick and fill our first tub (see Rogan's post for more i...Read More

Family Man Fatherhood

Responsible person?

. On a recent form I had to fill out for Meg it asked for: " Name of parent or responsible person " I was so relieved they gav...Read More

Conversation snippets Food Local

Backendish

. “It’s gey backendish,” said Maggie recently. “?” I enquired. “Very backendish: the back end of Summer.” “Not the back end of a pantomi...Read More

Mental and Physical Health Who am I?

Navel Gazing

. The problem with breaking is no matter how much glue, sticky tape and patches you use, the intact original has gone forever. The choice ...Read More

Food Mental and Physical Health Weight loss

I know I shouldn't have, but...

. After the disappointment of yesterday , I gorged myself on far too much chocolate last night. And felt considerably better for it. Toda...Read More

CFS / ME Haemochromatosis Mental and Physical Health

Chronically Fu... er, Pissed Off

. I went to see the blood specialist in Dumfries this afternoon. What I was hoping to hear: That I have a recognised condition, where n...Read More

Echelon system now probably monitoring all my activities Philosophy Reflections

Boycott!

. I’ve decided to boycott any films I’m unlikely to find educational, enlightening, amusing or entertaining. And I’m seriously thinking ab...Read More

About Blogging Anniversaries and Celebrations

3rd Blogging Anniversary

. 14 different profile pics More than 390 posts Over 55,000 visits In excess of a thousand afternoon naps What have I actually achieved in ...Read More

Down's Syndrome Guest blogging

Should I be here?

. I've been guest blogging over on 5 Minutes for Special Needs again. This time I've written a post called Should I be here? . Do p...Read More

Conversation snippets Haemochromatosis Mental and Physical Health

Genotype Compound Heterozygote

. You want to vivisect me??? “No, no, no, no, no. Venesect you, Mr Ayres. VENEsect. It’s a phlebotomy.” I’m rather attached to my phlebs....Read More

Artists Family Man Viva La Photoshop

Meg’s Kitchen Exhibition

. Ever since Maggie opened her studio to the public back in May at the Spring Fling Open Studio Event , Meg has wanted her own exhibition. ...Read More

Eustacia Bancroft wants to be my friend

. Eustacia Bancroft contacted me on Facebook. Eustacia Bancroft wants to be my friend. Eustacia Bancroft is very pretty, with red hair, p...Read More

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