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:) Exactly that, im wondering what would make the forum more entertaining/interesting and encourage new and fresh postings. Remember that scene in LOTR when the fellowship go into the mountain where the undead hang out- feels like that here sometimes...…. Any ideas/thoughts! :D

In the background is a small farmhouse/barns which can only be accessed by a private single track road....peaceful or what :D Theres no roads so a 1mile length of loch is effectively your back garden where you watch otters and ospreys go by! Could do with a few trees planted about but that's...

I made a veg stir fry yesterday -ultra healthy with green/red peppers mushrooms bean shoots onion garlic ginger green beans carrots noodles and...some chillies. Jeez and crikey and **** me! was it ever hot, the supermarket must have changed its supplier because they were three times the potency...

Jeez I find this festive period heavy going-like walking uphill until after the new year when its suddenly free wheeling! If Christmas is your thing I wish you well but if anyone knocks on my door with the intention of 'enforcing' jollity im going to plant an axe in there forehead !  :D hee hee...

I'm looking forward to having a garden again  :) I'm in a small cabin at the mo but in the not too distant future i'll be looking for a house with as big a garden as I can get and here in the highlands they tend to be large as space isn't at a premium. I like pottering  :) weeding planting...

Being an old git I much prefer peace and silence most of time but if ive got a few hundred miles to do and need to keep awake I might pep up the ride with a few favourites- you'll be able to guess my age from these!  :D  First up dr feelgood always good for seeing the miles away, other choices...

I don't really have a social life and the only time I chat to anyone apart from the checkout person at Tesco's is when I'm either walking the dog or when I'm fishing. The 'chatties' usually are of two varietys- the exchange of pleasantries sort where its a brief exchange of weather facts etc the...

I noticed someone had posted a Walt Whitman verse earlier 'Placid and self contained' which is a favourite of mine- the other is the following. I know this one off by heart and will probably be reciting it right at the end.......unless of course I get run over by a bus or summat  :D ps can a...

came shining softly through my window today ....Its been a hard winter here in the Highlands and slipping/sliding and freezing ones proverbials can get a bit wearisome after a while-there may still be some cold blasts but the season is progressing and it wont persist. What I'm really looking...

hmmm cant seem to post or delete- anyhow it was going to be cosmos launderamat [cant spell that either]

  The Fool I taught my foolish dog how to behave himself. He resisted at first but with his kind eye and good heart he acquiesced to my teaching. The class began at home, then field, hill and valley, sea shore and forest. All seemed to smile upon master and pupil. How...

Hi all, thought I would drop in here and see what its about. I'm retired and living in the Scottish highlands so my loneliness is mainly a life style choice- far from a lot of human insanity. Have spent a lot of time with meditation on the lines of 'who am I?' and realise this kind of truth...