On Monday morning, a water pipe burst outside our village, and left us with just a trickle of water for over 24 hours. In the great scheme of things, it wasn't ...
Possibly unpopular opinion here for you, but I'll just say it anyway: now that our months of shielding are over (For now, at least: there's an ominous feeling of foreshadowing ...
OK, I know everyone on the Internet is basically just waiting for September to end, so they can post that Anne of Green Gables quote about being glad to live ...
As I was going through the photos from our trip to Pittenweem last week, it suddenly occurred to me that, to someone just scrolling through my Instagram feed, say, it…
As Scotland's lockdown restrictions have continued to be eased, we've been taking a lot of socially-distanced walks in some of the remotest locations we can think of. This week, however, ...
Well, it's week 17 of lockdown folks, and, actually, I'm not sure I can even really CALL it "lockdown" any more, because there's not really a whole lot of "locking ...
For most people around the world, Covid-19 has been their first experience of pandemic-related health anxiety - and thank God for that, right? For me, however - and, I'll bet, ...
Just in case you’re wondering how my week’s been going, allow me to introduce you to Boo Boo the Poo Poo: Yes, I know what it looks like. It’s actually…
A few weeks ago, I left you all with with a thrilling cliffhanger relating to my plans to exercise during lockdown, and, RUNNING, people. It was running. Because, when it ...
Last week on 'Amber Writes About Mundane Things Under the Guise of Documenting Life in Lockdown', you might recall I was deeply embroiled in a washer /dryer drama, the likes ...
I'm going to open this week's diary entry by presenting you with a short list of all of the things that have broken down /temporarily stopped working in our house ...
This week marks our 12th week of self-isolation. Twelve. Weeks. Twelve weeks was, of course, the period of time Terry – and others like him – were originally told they’d…
One of the things I think we can all agree on right now - or, at least, I hope we can - is that lockdown sucks, and it sucks in ...
This week Scotland entered Phase 1 of its easing of lockdown, which means we finally got to see my parents again, after almost three months' worth of Facetime calls: the ...
Over the years I've been writing this blog, I've done a few of these 'Day of My Life' posts, with the aim of documenting some ordinary, random days, so I ...
I know it’s not like me to start one of these posts on a positive note, but I’m feeling just a little bit more hopeful than usual this week, and…
This week, our household begins our tenth week of "shielding" - completely isolating ourselves from the outside world, in a bid to protect ourselves from Covid-19. Actually, it's just my ...
I'm a little bit behind with these diary entries right now: partly because there just aren't enough hours in the day to keep up with everything, but also because it's ...