Scottish Mum Blog - Writing from Aberdeen
Walking in the rain, or blogging in the snow. On the path to enlightenment, wear comfy shoes.
I am taking part in the #blogging4madeline campaign this year. Yes, I can just hear some of you sigh, begin to switch off and think about clicking away, but just wait a minute and spare a few minutes for the kids who have all gone missing, including Ben Needham, April Jones and many other [...]
Driving along Union Street we were faced with board after board after board with the huge letters instilling fear into everyone who had taken out a mortgage in the last few years. Suburbs became festooned with placards stuck into grass, onto windows, and at the end of roads. “For Sale” As a young adult, the [...]
http://vimeo.com/10110907 Cervical Cancer Prevention week is: 20 – 26 January 2013 I really had to get involved with this one. I really had no right to let it go past. I’m not going to go in detail with the symptoms of cervical cancer as this is prevention week, but if you want to find out [...]
I read the news this morning, and I really couldn’t believe what I was reading. The Scottish Daily Express reported that a community nurse was suspended for taking a boy aged between 3 and 5 and keeping him safe. She had spotted him jumping in and out of a car but with no adult around. [...]
I have to say, the article on the BBC News site made me chuckle at first in how ridiculous it was, but then I read it again, and realised they were serious. I’ve no doubt the header saying simply “Obese may face cut to benefits.” is intended to draw the reader in. It does so [...]
With all the news about the newish Mrs Windsor and her hyperemesis gravidarum, or rather extra ordinary green gilled morning sickness to everyone else, it isn’t a surprise that someone, somewhere, was going to try and pull a stunt to get information about her, or the family. I find it a little outrageous that the [...]
With the Scottish referendum coming up possibly in Autumn 2014, I guess it’s about time I spent a bit of my hard got leisure time to actually look at the issues and what is likely to affect me the most. My decision and how I vote in the future is unlikely to be done on [...]
Reading the news can be a troublesome event. Before I even open the app, or the newspaper, or even switch on the radio, we’re faced with mostly the stories of the darkest deprivation and the most miserable things that can happen by the worst sorts of people on our planet. J#m#y S#v#le This week, the [...]
The news this week has not been good. Along with countless others, I’ve spent a lot of this week refreshing my news app on the phone to see if little April Jones had been found yet. Sadly, she’s not been able to find her way home to her parents, and even more sadly, there has [...]
© Morfeo86ts | Dreamstime.com Lounging in a private home, in a secluded location, you’d think it was pretty safe to top up your tan in France, and make sure there are no unsightly bikini lines. Looking around on our own holidays, we tend to worry if our bums look bigger than the people sitting in [...]
Image: graur razvan ionut / FreeDigitalPhotos.net I’ve just finished watching the Panorama programme about Elder Care, where a woman tells her story of how her mother with Alzheimers was abused by the very people who should have cared for her. Suspicious about bruises that had appeared on her mother’s body, she recorded video footage from a [...]
Image: farconville / FreeDigitalPhotos.net I’ve recently come into contact with a couple of local jobsworths that have the potential to have me banging my head on a brick wall for completely different reasons. To start with, I find it REALLY frustrating to see someone paying really good money for absolutely rubbish work. I saw a [...]
