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The curse of the east coast mainline strikes again
Taking the train between Edinburgh Waverley and London King's Cross has been one of my favourite journeys since my first trip in the late...
Dougie
Jun 5, 20225 min read


In the immortal words of John McEnroe ...
You cannot be serious! We took a mid-morning train to Edinburgh Waverley. As far as I know, it's the only train station named after a...
Dougie
Jun 3, 20224 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...
Dougie
Jun 2, 20223 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...
Dougie
Jun 1, 20226 min read


The Journey Home ... delayed by a deer on the tracks
The promenade at Weymouth is a peaceful place at seven o'clock on a Sunday morning. The only sounds are those of the natural world. The...
Dougie
May 29, 20226 min read


(Not too) Far from the Madding Crowd
We are still in Hardy Country -- in a place where his best loved book collides with John Schlesinger's film. A day when 1874 (Thomas...
Dougie
May 28, 20223 min read


High Tea (and a less than stellar poem) in Hardy Country
We were in need of a good location. Spike had arranged to meet her father's sister, Anne, and her husband, Jeff, somewhere in Weymouth....
Dougie
May 27, 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...
Dougie
May 26, 20225 min read


A Gallery Too Far ...?
To paraphrase the 1977 Second World War "blockbuster" movie, A Bridge Too Far starring Dirk Bogarde, Sean Connery, Anthony Hopkins and...
Dougie
May 22, 20224 min read


Coming at the world through its side doors
We had no plans for today. And after a slow start (which sometimes happens with us quadriplegics) we made it out of the hotel with only...
Dougie
May 21, 20223 min read


Intrepid explorers ... we are not!
Today we rise to our first real challenge ... cross the city by train, transfer to the suburban tram, find the market ... buy the purse....
Dougie
May 15, 20222 min read


Bienvenue a Paris
What has it been? Forty hours or thereabouts since Spike loaded the car, said her goodbyes to Thistle the cat, and we set off on our...
Dougie
May 14, 20223 min read


Those are 16 hours I'm never getting back
Word of advice ... Never -- I mean JAMAIS ... never get on a plane for 14 hours in the cheap seats with a tired, grumpy, Scottish...
Dougie
May 13, 20222 min read


It's been 6 long years
And so it begins. After six long years ... a new job (which is not so new now) and bush fires and more than two years of a pandemic that...
Dougie
May 12, 20223 min read
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