Blog Posts

  • Given up on Janetter. Bloody thing would

    Given up on Janetter. Bloody thing wouldn’t work. Back to Hootesuite.

  • The Liebster Award: Take 2

    I was first nominated for the Liebster Award two or three years ago and not only did I get loads of traffic to my blog as a result, it gave me something to write about other than my normal ranty stuff and it was fun. Thanks to the fabulous Ailsa Abraham, I’ve been nominated again…

  • You’ve got a friend in me.

    I’ve been thinking a lot about the nature of friendship recently. There have been a few minor crises happening around me and I have been struck by how supportive and caring my friends have been. These people have been there for me whenever things have been black; they have shared my joys and successes, hugged…

  • And They Called It Puppy Love…

    Young Love and Inappropriate Crushes. A friend and I were discussing first loves recently and it got me thinking about how inappropriate my first loves were. I’m not talking about the flesh and bones of a real boy, but about early pashes of my girlhood. One of my first crushes was Donny Osmond. I was…

  • Me? Silent? Make me!

    This whole “Twitter Silence” thing is making me very cross today. With typical Weegie contrariness, if someone tells me not to do something, my response is “oh, you fucking think so?” and, to be honest, I could see it all far enough. I’m going through a down period. My depression is back, I have upped…

  • This is my song.

    I’ve never been confident with the opposite sex. Not in a ‘oh my gawd, I can’t talk to men’ way but, thanks to some pretty cruel bullying at school, I just never expected any of them to find me attractive. Anyhoo, when I was in my twenties I was working as a computer programmer in…

  • Everyone’s A Critic

    In honour of National Flash Fiction Day, here is a short piece I wrote to celebrate. I also have a story called RumpleFrogHood published later today on FlashFlood. I hope you enjoy them both. Everyone’s A Critic ‘Quite frankly, the service was appalling. The dishes were filthy – I don’t think they had been washed…

  • Who Is Your Romantic Hero?

    Who is your idea of a romantic hero? Mr D’Arcy? Captain Jack Sparrow? Christian Grey? I have an alternative to suggest to you, and I’ll explain why. First, let’s look at what makes a romantic hero. According to Wikipedia, “The Romantic hero is a literary archetype referring to a character that rejects established norms and…

  • Dolphin Spotting

    It was a glorious day here. Well, as glorious as it gets in northern Scotland. The sun was shining, it was moderately warm and the sky was blue. There is nothing to be done with a day such as this but go to the beach. Which I did. It was quiet: most folk are at…

  • Over The Sea to…..

    My husband is a QHSE advisor – Quality, Health & Safety and Environmental Systems. Working in the oil industry, as most folk do in Aberdeenshire, this involves a bit of travel. Thankfully, George has to fly to the places he visits – Stavangar, Bergen, Abu Dhabi – but some poor souls have to travel to…