The Soaplady

 
Right, for those who were interested, here’s a few impressions about what was discussed at this meeting, from a hotelier who was there, to whom I spoke on the phone this week …
 

It was agreed that RET is not really all about the Tourist Industry …
But that they could definitely benefit …
It is VisitScotlands job [...]

 
Pardon me if I am perhaps speaking too soon, but it seems to me that we may have lost our slow page-loading problem …?! 
All accessible blogs loaded in a normal timespace …  :- )
So well done Les, for taking up the baton … xxxx
 
Mindy says a quiet ‘wuff slobber’ to you all too …
She was unceremoniously [...]

 
That’s what the buddhists say anyhow … Readers of my previous blogs will already know how this ties in with ‘Starting where you are’, and how comforting I find that truth sometimes …
 
Me and life in general - we have a sort of upsey-downsey relationship …
Friends have told me I spend too much time navel-gazing [...]

 
I was talking to my dad on the phone last night …
He was trying to decide where he and my mum were going on their holidays this year …
 
He’d phoned me up because I’d been to Turkey before, and he wanted to know what the various resorts were like …
I recommended Olu Deniz to him, [...]

 
As I was carefully cleaning my glasses the other day, thinking what a real difference this makes to you when you put the cleaned glasses back on, I thought there *must* be other things like this …
Things that make a difference to how you feel, and how you see things (no pun intended :- )
 
Here’s [...]

Breasclete is in danger of becoming really unruly over these past few months …
 
There has been a spate of vandalism - mirrors and aerials broken off cars and suchlike - not really big potatoes in the scheme of things, but sort of … surprising … if you know what I mean …  :- )
 
Wednesday morning, [...]

 
Mindy’s off her food …
 
She could only manage a few of her crunchies this morning …
 
I have very little sympathy for her, and had to fight the impulse to stick my thumbs in my ears and wiggle my fingers, going ‘mer mer mer-mer mer’ at her …
 
Last night the cloth-eared madam managed to eat a [...]

  
The term ‘crepuscular’ describes beings that are primarily active during twilight - at dawn and at dusk.
It is derived from the latin word crepusculum, meaning ‘twilight’ .
 
Crepuscular mammals include the red panda, cat, dog, deer, moose, rabbit, chinchilla, ferret, guinea pig, hamster, common mouse, skunk, rat, and me …
 
I have always been a ‘night-person’ [...]