2026 BIRTHDAY

Another year has passed; that's me 82 years old now.  Life rolls along much the same really.

A recent photograph:

(taken in the garden today when out at the washing line...)

I like to spend time in the garden... lovely at this time of year. I even make an effort to sit and read a book or the newspaper but I always find that somehow 2 hours passes and the book is left untouched!  Yes, I do spend many hours pottering about outside or possibly in the garage where I have things I can get on with if the weather is poor.

It is wonderful to be able to pay the occasional trip to Edinburgh to see Inger.  I am at that time of life when too many of my social events are attending funerals. A train trip for some much needed 'social stimulation' definitely offsets the 'duty' stuff!

Such a lovely city... walkable with lots to see looking up!  (Glasgow can be like that too but it is currently digging up roads to put in cycle lanes, fibre optic cables and the place is a mess!)

These 4 photos are on my route to my destination.  Picture postcard perfect!

And finally I still keep busy with desk-top publishing activities. My main project is producing the 20 pages brochure for Milngavie Music Cub.  Here it is, hot off the press.

I really enjoy this computer work and it keeps me in touch with both the technology which is always changing plus the people involved who work in the printing and advertising sectors. (I deal with artwork for various aspects relating to putting on these concerts.). It's a case of 'If you don't use it, you lose it.'   Sometimes I have to have to spend many hours 'trouble-shooting' when I can't get the software to work.  However I am getting better at it! And I have learned, like using the banks these days, the problem doesn't necessarily lie at my end!

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The birthday cake which ended up being a pile of Nigella brownies stacked in a dish with masses of Mary Berry ganache slathered all over it... candles finished it off... a sort of mini-volcano.  As long as there is lots of chocolate the kids don't mind in what form it comes!  That's Harriet (L) nearly 13 years and Ellie (11).