Ellenarnison

LATEST ARTICLES ( 927 )

• 97/365 A Walk Around Hallin

  

  Sometimes you're just lucky. And we were this weekend with our walk. I couldn't decide which picture I like best, so you're getting them all. Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• 96/365 Waiting for the Ullswater Steamer

  

  Another year, another gathering of the family of Charles Arnison for a walk. This time grandsons aged 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 and a smattering of related grown ups... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• 95/365 Me, Me, Me - Cousins Clamour

  

  Boy Three is having a ball with his cousins. I think they were taking turns to lob things off the top bunk at Granny's. Posted with Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Seven Social Classes: I'm from the Cleaning Elite

  

  Did you do it? Did you do the Great British Class Calculator? It's hard to resist finding out if you're really who you think you are. What if you're posher... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• 93/365 New Season Arrives with a Streak

  

  About the point we give up and resign ourselves to permanent winter, spring bowls in as if nothing had happened. "What, me? Late? You must be mistaken. Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Are Audiobooks Cheating?

  

  Pleased to meet you: The moment when Jean Paget claps eyes on Joe Harman in the 1956 film of A Town Like Alice I've been taking my mind off the discomfort of... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Soldiers in Silloth - a Serendipitous Find

  

  Marching orders: Boy Two soldiers on Once upon a time there was a boy called Tim who grew up in a seaside town called Silloth. Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• 88/365 Zagging When Everyone's Zigging

  

  Easter's a funny old time. Another one of those occasions when some of us decide we can pick and choose bits of a religion that suit us. And scoffing our faces... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• 87/365 On Reflection by the Clyde

  

  I've been back at STV for a few days this week and it means I get to walk along the bit of Glasgow's riverside between the Science Centre car park and Pacific... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• 86/365 Running into the Past

  

  This morning I resumed my morning constitutional with a trot along the Sustrans cycle track. Big soft perfect flakes of snow were filling the air creating an... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• When Driving a Wedge is Really Rather a Good Thing...

  

  You know the expression: "Driving a wedge." Suggesting an activity that separates things in the manner of a metal slug being bashed by a hammer into a big log.... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• 85/365 Shadows of Glory

  

  You know you get some days when nothing you try works out as you want? Yeah those. Well today was slightly on the stinky side. Nothing significantly awful,... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• 82/365 Snow Joke Being Stuck at Home

  

  We woke to lots of pristine whiteness this morning. Once Boy Two's football match was cancelled we could consider the day properly. "It would be quite handy to... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Really Annoying Things Bloggers Do...

  

  I settled down to a bout of contented blog surfing - catching up with old favourites and hopefully finding some fresh new blogs to enjoy. Only minutes later I... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• 81/365 a Flaccid Exterminator

  

  Can't think what else might be causing such an otherworldly mess in my house. Posted with Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• 80/365 Getting to the Bottom of It...

  

  There has been an exhausting kind of mystery to solve here today and this was the look Boy Two gave me in the middle of it. It started in the morning with a... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Oh, No! There's an Aspie in the Class.

  

  A different seat of learning Apparently teachers' hearts sink when they learn there's going to be a child on the spectrum in their class. Or so I'm told. Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Monocle Arrived in the Post Today

  

  Today, among the usual stuff, the postie brought a monocle for Boy One. Also winging its way towards us is a cane. The ensemble isn't complete yet as I have bee... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• 77/365 Message from a Very Long Way Off...

  

  Yesterday was my brother's 42nd birthday. As the years go by the fact that he's not there to celebrate birthdays and the like really doesn't get any easier. Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Facial Hair Post

  

  We've all been dwelling on facial hair here at the Palace of Bundance. Some of us have been dwelling in it while others would like to. We'll start with the... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION