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Feel the Burn – All going well – Chain Snapped

Cycling is fun, no seriously cycling is fun, why else do we do it?  Today was a nice sunny start, well it was in Livingston, so after all the housework was done I contacted a fellow recycling recycled...

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At the Feeder Today – 11/10/2012

Yesterday, Thursday 10/10/2012 was a busy day at the feeder we had our usual guests dinning, Starlings, Blue Tits and Coal Tits.  Our casual visitors, one in particular (today), caused a bit of a stir....

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Intrepids Day Out – Castle, Bridge and Farm

Sunday 11th November, Remembrance Sunday, The Intrepids paid a visit to Castle Campbell, this was a return visit to get shots of the areas of the castle that were covered in scaffolding on our last...

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At The Feeder – 21/01/2013

A belated Happy New Year to all my followers.  I’ve finally got over the Christmas and New Year festivities. (not that I did much).  I hope all had a great time.  Funny how distant it now seems....

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Catch up – January – February 2013

Where does the time go I usually find that the winter months of January – March are the slowest in passing, I know they are slow regards outings and photography.  We (Susan and me) did go on a few...

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At the Feeder – 22/03/2013

Time flies or should that be Tempus fugit as the poet Virgil said in his bested latin “Sed fugit interea fugit irreparabile tempus, singula dum capti circumvectamur amore” Translated for the likes of...

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Catch up March – Part 1

Finding time to do things is always a problem, Housework, work, shopping.  When you are working you dream of the time you will have when you retire. Time for family, friends hobbies and time to relax....

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March Catch Up Part 2

Its June 7th and I’m still playing catch up I got as far a the beginning of March in last blog, and looking at my photos I realise that March was a busy month for The Intrepids, Susan and me.  It was...

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Starlings Discover Water Feature

Well the shocking news here is that Scotland has had blue skies and sunshine for 5 consecutive days- so it looks as if we will have a record summer this year providing the blue skies and sunshine...

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At the Feeder 21-07-2013

Chez Walter’s Feeder stations underwent a complete remodelling and refurbishment.  A normal service was kept up which  the starlings, robin, chaffinch appreciated.  The new facilities have been well...

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Highland Day Trip – Hairy Coo 2

Last May (2012) a few like minded souls who shared a similar interest arranged to share a bus trip run by Hairy Coo bus tours.  We took the standard tour which covered the Central Lowland/Highland...

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Intrepids Day Out – Port of Menteith

Here we are back on our adventures with The Intrepids on this lovely spring day on 25/3/2012. Once we established that Sid was in fact Sid, see our adventure at Dune Castle, we headed of for a spot of...

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Intrepids Day Out – Floors Castle

“This blog was originally posted on the 23rd July 2012 two days after the Intrepids visit to Floors Castle. However, owing to the fact that several photo links had been broken I revisited the blog to...

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Feel the Burn – All going well – Chain Snapped

Cycling is fun, no seriously cycling is fun, why else do we do it?  Today was a nice sunny start, well it was in Livingston, so after all the housework was done I contacted a fellow recycling recycled...

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Retirement an Adventure? Life Is Though

Where does the time go? Where did the time go?  Here it is 24th June and 700 year ago an important event occurred in Scottish history, the Battle of Bannockburn. However, that was 700 years ago and...

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Is there Life after Retirement?

What a question! It has been three years since I “retired” from the rat race.  Three years of lazing about living the life of the idle rich.  I wish.  During the past three years I have travelled,...

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Some Days Are Diamond…..

After last week-end out with The Intrepids I was reminded of the song sung by the late John Denver – Some Days are Diamond, the chorus goes like this: “Some days are diamonds, some days are stones...

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