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Scotland
A bit of the world I love - over the years I’ve lived, played, worked and loved there. My mum still stays in the Inner Hebrides, and I go north of the border several times a year.
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12.23.01Freezing. In a good way.You know, in a bracing "my cheeks have just been buffed by a salty sea wind" sort of way. But still freezing, nevertheless.I'm sleeping on a futon - which is, I think, my little sister's way of getting back at me for making her sleep on the lumpy futon from hell in my flat in London last month. Oops. The futon in the spare room of my mum's house up here is, like all other uncomfortable futons, for most of its working life actually a sofa. As a sofa, it's marvellous. Long, comfy, arms - pretty much everything you could ...
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12.21.01HuddledIn Iona, huddled in my mum's office, wearing four layers of clothing and slippers.The wind is (literally) blowing a gale against the window - the stone walls of this building are three feet thick, but the windows are vulnerable. Makes you appreciate double glazing, I assure you.So, the journey here. Well. I was sick last night - part worry, part I don't know what - so I got about 4.3 minutes sleep. The alarm was set for six so I could get up and get organised before walking at a leisurely pace the 20 minute stroll to the station, where ...
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09.20.01SwitchWhere we are going tomorrow, there are no modern amenities: official. Yahoo news covers a story in which a mother dashes 900 miles to deliver a GameBoy that her son forgot to pack - when he was going to the Isle of Iona on a school trip. I don't know about no amenities - my mum certainly has a telly, though I'm not sure that's she's watched it at all in the last five years, and fair enough, she doesn't get channel five (but she should count her blessings, really), and ok, I'll concede that in order to get a ...
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