Well, I wrote about my hopes for the collision of good people in Koh Phanang, Thailand that I’ve been doing for a number of years.   Well kids I can tell you, it was an adventure that I didn’t expect, ask for or would want again.   Here are a few hundred...

Dearest grand weans!!   It’s towards the end of January 2024 and is freezing outside, not too warm inside either!   I’m looking forward to a holiday at the end of the month, meeting some friends in Thailand - dreading the travel, but looking forward to the...

2024, RESOLUTION, REVOLUTION..   Hello bonnie weans, Happy New Year to you all - you will never know the love I send in these words that can’t do you, or myself I guess, justice or the feelings behind them. My love for you is ‘it’. So ‘it’ will be.   It’s a...

Good day, it’s Christmas Day, 2023, well 24th really, and I’m summing up the energy to put a word or two to paper on this holly-day that is really meant to keep things going on the site. Interesting? Who knows, but kids these messages are for you, in the still,...

Hi kids, wherever you are in life journey. Sandy is 18, the rest are 4 to 6 years old with the bonnie Faye about to be one on 23rd December, same date as her grandma, who is a bit older than 12 months. Quiz, she is really old - how old? 6? Big prizes for the best...

It’s the 18th October 2023 today, waking up to a damp autumn here in the Scottish Borders.   My customary early wake news, Radio Scotland, presented by youngsters, done from home - sorry, we’ve run out of time - and really, it’s Radio Glasgow!   It’s war....

Off to the movies!   So the school holidays are over, for the summer of 2023! The idea of them dominating the conversation is a new one for the wider family- Alba has just finished her first ‘summer holidays’ following the completion of Primary one, purchased new...

Hi young people, hope you are having a good day, it’s Friday 11th August today, quiet here, going for some Borders country air this afternoon since I’ve just done some hoovering. Hope fully by the time you are of an age when you can have a view, hoovering will be a...

Hello guys, how’s it going, you being a grandchild of mine?   Being your grandad is just grand, piling up the savings accounts that grows up alongside the number of children that your respective parents have, one for one. Five so far! Such joy!!   Anyway,...

THE NHS 75 YEARS   Hi bonnie weans and anyone else who drops bye.   This is just a scrambled note, a kind of heads up.   This month, the day I believe, 5th July 2023, marks the 75th anniversary of the beginnings of the NHS - the National Health Service...