June is the month when I think it is fair to say that I really moved to Scotland. We are still in the process of moving bit-by-bit, but in June I spent most of the time in Scotland, while Jayne was mostly in England.
She has been unhappy because she just wants to get moved, but until she finishes her job she can’t do it. One downside of being a bus driver is that you can’t work from home like I can!
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May was a mixture of being busy and of spending a lot of time doing not much at all.
A lot of the busyness was to do with driving. After going up to Scotland to pick up the keys to our new place at the end of April I drove back down and immediately we had to go up to Norwich for a grandson’s birthday celebration. During the month I drove back up to Scotland to take a few belongings up – a few basics for the kitchen, my computer gear and a comfy chair to sit in. I had to go up ahead of Jayne because I was having a bed delivered, the assembling of which kept me occupied.
Jayne came up on her rest days so she could meet with the people doing our kitchen. After that we had a visit from Virgin to install the broadband, and then we went into Kilmarnock to order a new sofa. Jayne had to go back to work but I followed a couple of days later for a flying visit where I did a tip run, packed up more stuff, and then filled the car to the brim and drove back to Scotland.
All together I made the 400+ mile journey between Ayrshire and Crawley three times in the month.
[Read more →]I can’t believe that I wrote my little monthly summary of April 2026 and missed out the major event of going up to that London to see Les Négresses Vertes! I saw LNV a few times in London back in the day, but the last time must be more than 30 years ago. I knew they had split up but I wasn’t aware they were back together again. Actually they re-formed in about 2018 but I suspect I was too pre-occupied with cancer to have noticed.
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April was quite an expensive month. I finally got round to getting Jayne and I new phones, I bought myself a car, and we bought a house! The house is a big deal, obviously, and I will probably go into all that in a separate post.
The rest of the month was pretty much business as usual. There were a few record fairs, in Horsham, East Grinstead and Crawley. I bought a few records at Horsham and East Grinstead, but none at Crawley. I think I have started to realise that each record I buy is one more thing to move to Scotland.
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I may have noted how it feels like the more trivial a purchase is, the more time I spend agonising over it. In the last month I bought a car and a house. In both cases I got the first one I saw.
In contrast I have spent a month or so dithering about getting a new mobile phone.
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I make no secret of the fact that I do not enjoy driving and avoid it as far as possible. I maybe drive a car once a month on average and will usually walk, ride the bike or take a bus before I resort to driving. I do have a car, but Jayne uses it all the time and that is fine with me. The last time we had two cars was about 16 years ago when I inherited my Dad’s little Seat. At the time it was handy because I had to travel round Horsham a lot in the run-up to the General Election, but when I got rear-ended and the car was written off there didn’t appear to be any real need to replace it. Until now.
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After a January that seemed to go on for ever, suddenly we are a quarter of the way through the year already, and it has been an eventful month, full of big decisions.
Jayne and I had a little holiday up in Scotland and inbetween visiting museums in Glasgow and doing a circuit of Loch Lomond, we bought ourselves a house. We have been thinking about moving up there anyway, and it makes sense as that is where my workplace is officially. Not that I will be going into work much, because the other big decision was that I will retire next year. I did the sums and I can afford to scrape by until the state pension kicks in.
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We were going to visit Rome for a spring break, but I gave Jayne the choice of Rome or Scotland and she chose Scotland, and was very excited about it. There were two main reasons for this. The first is that we have been thinking about moving up there and it would give us a chance to look at some towns and villages to see where we might like to see out our days. The second reason is that I have been visiting Glasgow a bit over the last few years for work but never got a chance to see the city during the daytime when things are open.
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I guess it was inevitable that, after a January that seemed to go on for ever, February passed by in a flash. I know it is a short month, indeed the shortest month, but it still felt like it was a week shorter than a normal month rather than just a couple of days.
[Read more →]After work yesterday I decided to go out and get a burger instead of cooking. There are two MacDonalds fairly close to our house, one about a mile away and one about half a mile away and I decided to go to the one that is further away, so that I could use the walk to burn off some of the extra calories, especially if return the long way.
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