The Mummy Diaries
SPOILER ALERT: Real life mummy rant. If you’re one of those perfect mums, with the perfect kids and ‘loving the lock down’, spending quality time together-type families, then look away ...
TO PREFACE what follows below, I must just tell you that the regiment I joined after Sandhurst, the 4th Royal Tank Regiment (Scotland’s Own), usually known as 4 RTR or 4th Tonks, was by common consensus the ...
ROUGH as being in lockdown is, can you imagine doing it with even slightly dialled-back technology than we have now?
Picture, if you’re willing to, that the Coronavirus, or some other malady ...
I LEFT YOU ALL in suspense after my visit to 3RTR on Salisbury Plain when I had my first hurl in a Chieftain tank. I was, of course, pleased and relieved to have navigated the ...
The Mummy Diaries
WEEK THREE in the big brother house, err I mean self-isolation. Our new routines are starting to become the new normality and although it’s tough not being able to ...
AS FAR BACK as I can remember, I always wanted to be a soldier.* I can’t really explain why, it’s just the way it was. My Dad had been subaltern in the Highland Light Infantry ...
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IT’S ONLY week two of proper isolation and I’ve already drank my lockdown reserves of red wine and eaten the kids emergency stash of chocolate. Although I did manage ...
THIS EDITION of Think Movies is, by necessity, a slightly different one. The cinemas are closed temporarily and I’m staying in so there are no new releases about which I’m able to offer you an ...
The Mummy Diaries
WHAT A WEEK. It has been a case of just taking it a day at a time and trying to stick to some kind of routine both for the ...
ALTHOUGH A LONGSTANDING writer for ThinkScotland I am trained as a medic and can swear COVID-19 is a huge emergency. If you wish to help and have no NHS qualifications please click the link below:
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The Mummy Diaries
LAST WEEK my lovely Mum wrote the Mummy Diaries article as she and my Dad were watching the kids for a few days while James and I escaped ...
I HAVE DISCOVERED community radio. Not community radio as a whole, but my local station East Coast FM (ECFM)*, based near where I live in Haddington. I have known about its existence for ages, but ...