The Soaplady

 
As Andy Warhol said, everybody gets their 15 minutes of fame …
But what do other people think of this program … ?  It gives me a background nasty feeling …
The program serves the judges well too … Simon Cowell has built a career around it, and Piers Morgan (a personal friend of Cowells) has successfully invigorated [...]

 
” … and I’m feelin’ good …”
(You have to imagine Nina Simone singing that, in her earthy, chiming tones) …
 
Had a good Saturday morning in the shop today … Lots of visitors, lots of motor-homes, a couple of local children buying presents …
 
Everything was sort of all over the place due to my having done a [...]

 
We have our first buddhist Minister on the island - she has just recently been ordained into the Western Buddhist Order, and her ordained name is Animisha, which in the Sanskrit language means ‘eyes wide open not blinking, vigilant’ …
She was ordained in Spain at the new women’s ordination retreat centre just northwest of Barcelona [...]

Hello Landlady …!  and everyone else …  :- )
Did you see the program on Channel 4 this afternoon …?  It was called ‘Life begins again’, and dealt with Mark and Alison Lorne (sp?), a couple from Aberdeen, who were giving up their current life on the mainland, and sinking their life savings into a new home [...]

 
I’ve just finished a two-day First Responders Course, given by the Scottish Ambulance Service, in Carloway, the next village along from Breasclete …
 
 
The purpose of First Responders, in remote communities like ours, is to attend people, in our locality, who have already phoned 999 for an ambulance with cardio-vascular or breathing problems, to make good use of the valuable [...]

 
It all started in the Co-op, noticing that they had some *huge* pork loins on special - they should’ve been £7.50 and were on offer for £3 … I don’t usually eat meat, but couldn’t resist these, after it occurred to me that I haven’t cooked Sunday dinner in a lo-o-o-o-ong time … Then it [...]