Scottish Borders. Deep as a puddle. Commander of lists. Juggler of tasks. Lives with hens; Henry, a cat; Leo, a dug and best of all, @alistaircoleman.bluesky.social.
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*Takes a sudden and very deep interest in football*
TW: Those suffering from sciurophobia should look away. Those who did not, may do after this thread.
Also rookie mistake - I forgot to bring kitchen knives with me. Now 'chopping' an onion with a bread knife - it's the only knife in the cottage with any kind of cutting edge.
I have swim in Stonehaven lido. Heated seawater which was v strange but lovely. Lanes and Other People though. I would have deeply regretted not going, am glad I did go, and now I KNOW that I am a solo creature of the dark and peaty loch. Which is nice.
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Did a swim. Waves/swell much higher than the picture suggests (which is mostly me anyhoo, but y'know) and I braved GIANT dinner plate sized jellyfish and did not get stang.
If you are on Instagram, @bradandthegoat is a fabulous account. Thank me later, etc.
Our favourite game this holiday is reading ridiculous reviews of where we are staying. Best was a beach being rated low because "the tide was in all day". But that was before we started reading the Dunnottar Castle reviews. When you wonder why we get the politicians we do, look at TripAdvisor.
We went to Dunnottar Castle today which was fabulous and everything a castle should be & I thought how much @crunchyfrog.bsky.social would enjoy it and then I saw...
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If the media could try making sexual assault taboo instead of framing it as a series of confused lovelorn men having their polite attempts at courtship cruelly spurned by shrews that would be a nice start, it could in fact help