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Ist January, 2013. 2.25 p.m.                           Looking for positives .... last year was the first for about twen… Read More

Wednesday 7.30 p.m.                                 I went out for my constitutional this afternoon, head… Read More

Friday 9.00 p.m.                        I think I've worked out the Picassa thing. It's got all the photies I've ever put on the b… Read More

Thursday 2.35 p.m.                            &nbs… Read More

Monday 7.08 p.m.                            I took these photies while wandering about the neighbourhood over the last f… Read More

Sunday 6.50 p.m.                          The photies are from walkies in the Botties.          &nbs… Read More

Below, hopefully, are some photies of the weed patch, erm, plot. Clicking on images will enlarge them.The Accidental PumpkinCompare this photo with the next one. It has been taken in roughly… Read More

My girlfriend is going to kill me, another blog...Anyhoo, back in 2003, I think, my girfriend Veronika and myself decided to rent from the council a 20m X 10m plot of ground with views of gr… Read More

- Para One who produced an amazing OST for the French movie: La Naissance des Pieuvres a teens flix about love in and around swimming pools...- Laure Manaudou who is undoubtedly the French s… Read More

by Oresti Patricios (@orestaki) DDB South Africa gets the message about keeping fare fresh across to foodies on Instagram with a campaign for Glad that is at once personal, cheeky and though… Read More

         This might be the end of blogging for me. I don't like writing as a hypocrite. Far too evil middle class being a hypocrit. So I have struggling ever since I… Read More

           My nephew Neil got married on Saturday in La Ciotat. What an absolutely brilliant weekend!!           I'm becoming a ri… Read More

           The stupid machine recognised the phone this evening so I was able to download some photies I took this week. The one at the top is of my big brother… Read More

          Many times recently I have thought I was going to start writing again, but today I seem to have actually started. Or re-started. I spent a couple of hours… Read More

          The photies were taken up the allotment over the last few days or so. So the plantings have started. And I moved the leeks that were over-wintered. Anyway… Read More

             Just found these photies from the lama on my email. Wonderful! They are of Vulture's Peak where the Heart Sutra was expounded. Thanks to Black… Read More

                     I took a photie of snowdrops this afternoon up the allotment. I had to put it on FB. I'd stop posting stuff on FB… Read More

          Since I joined this One Drive thing on the laptop, it seems the problem with loading photies has gone away. I've no idea what One Drive is, of course, but… Read More

          I took the allotment photies yesterday, but once again the machine could not find the phone. Tonight I disconnected the mouse, which I usually use, and the… Read More

          Well, I had the usual problems uploading the photies, but I have managed. I went up for a quick visit this evening, really just to take some photies since… Read More

          So there is no problem with getting the photies here via One Drive. I've been told that once One Drive gets full, you have to pay money to get your storage… Read More

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Just to let you all know  I'm alive and kicking  and over the next few days will be posting ....Tomorrow ... As part of her Book Tour, my review of Skin Deep by Laura Wilkinso… Read More

          Took a donner round the Botties the day before yesterday, when it wasn't raining. Well, it aint raining today either. Going up to the allotment and maybe I… Read More

          A few days ago when I was up at the allotment, a fox came along and stood and stared at me for quite some time. Weird how they'll do that. They stop, stare… Read More

          Well, of course, I took some photies for this blog, but for some no good reason the machine is refusing to work. So I could not download the photies. So I… Read More

          Just back from a week spent in Kirk Yetholm. This is almost in England and I did not realise how lovely some of the Border countryside was. Lots of travell… Read More

          The top photie was taken just after I arrived. It's the lama and one other. Seeing him as soon as I got there, I found most auspicious. And it was a wonder… Read More

           I've given half the allotment back to the council. The boy kept hassling me with emails going on about the eleven year waiting list for plots and suc… Read More

          I think I sent out about six emails to agents who were registered as being interested in hustling plays, and I did get one response. I sent one to Tom Erha… Read More

          The driving around the hinterlands of  Edinburgh on Saturdays has been a real highlight of the week recently. Lovely views, lovely sunsets, bonnie Sco… Read More

                   Problems getting photies uplifted as usual, so this is an old one of the kalachakra mandala which I once bought for my au… Read More

          The first photie is of the part of the river where I usually meditate for a while when I'm  at the Samye Ling. It was too brass monkeys to meditate th… Read More

                    The photies were taken at Newbattle Abbey College yesterday. Really nice place to go for a weekend walk especially yeste… Read More

          I was hoping to download some recent photies - a main purpose for this blog - and, of course, Windows 10 is effing me around as usual and I only managed to… Read More

                   First of all, I think I might have sorted the problem with uploading photies from my phone to this bloggy. So you share t… Read More

          The top photie shows the view from the door of my hut these days, now that someone else is working the other half of the plot. I was up the allotment today… Read More

            Somebody bought the three buddhisty books on my kindle thing last weekend. I really like that. It's not the money. I think I'd get about 75p, not en… Read More

                   Found this photie when I was, as usual, looking for the recent phone photies, which are still somewhere indiscernible wit… Read More

          Last weekend we were out on Saturday, and went to see Craignethan Castle as well as stopping at a very dry looking reservoir on the Lang Whang. We also wen… Read More

          Things have been going so well with my meditations recently that something of a sense of contentment and satisfaction has occasionally intruded to the exte… Read More

                  The change of view mentioned in the last post changed again, as it would, and not for the best. This is due to not meditating e… Read More

          Well, shame about the photies as usual. Say no more.          I set off for Brussels at four in the morning of last Saturday and s… Read More

         These hotels being much the same and the journeys by minibus being much the same ... well, it's the same but different and it's kind of hard to remember wha… Read More

               We spent most of the day in the big marquee beside the Karmapa's Temple, the place where I spent so much when I was here last, during t… Read More

The bed in the Monastery. Brilliant bed! Hard and so is the pillow, and the blanket you put over you must be some kind of classic.Out the bedroom window.Getting the shrine sorted in the Deer… Read More

Varanasi seems like a long time ago, but it was only yesterday. We went for a dawn boat ride. We did not see any bits of human beings floating passed, but I did see an almost submerged dead… Read More

          This blog is not supposed to be a repository for photies, which is what it really is, but is suppose to be something about writing, and keeping some kind o… Read More

          We went to a temple complex beside the Deer Park yesterday. A bit of a tribute to the Sri Lankan guy who revived the Buddhist places. Below is a photie of… Read More

           Been weird trying to remember how to navigate around this bloggy thing, considering it's nearly two years since I could get into it. But I remember w… Read More

         After about two years or so, today I managed to get access to my Kindle Direct Publishing account.         When I was going ro… Read More

                     I get stuff from the Samye Ling landing on the Facebook page and as I was clicking through som… Read More

         I was really looking forward to going back to the Samye Ling a couple of weeks ago after not being able to go there due to the pandemic for a couple of… Read More