Sometimes I feel like the person I was/am here is much more me, than in "real life". Perhaps it's because in a place like this and considering the age I was, I formed and truly became my own creation. Maybe it is rather too idealised and that's what makes it so appealing.. but I feel like I don't express myself well in real life and...
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I've made an account here again to try to catch up with everyone -
https://www.instagram.com/ch.cant/
How are folks? x
It's a bit sad and disappointing that they've deleted all the regional groups here on SG. I would have come on now to have a blether about the Scottish election with people who might be remotely interested. I feel like the little safe havens on here have disappeared. How weird is Edinburgh and look at that big blue border..
Sending you love. I hope that things are going well for everyone this new year x
Feeling the force of the bleak midwinter. Got to use the force. I sort of moved house, thank you very much for all the very good advice. I've been there about half the time and the other half back home. I hope you're all well. Have you seen Star Wars yet, is it good?x
I have a relatively small thing to do. I have to move my things into a flat which is two rooms. My things are quite a jumble but they only take up one room and yet it feels like an insurmountable task. Every time I go into my room to think about getting started, how to get the books off the shelves.. what to do...
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All well. Autumn is very nice. Working quite a lot but it's ok. Don't feel like the Internet much, too much stuff! Hope you are all well :-) x
Beginning with a couplet from Carmina Gadelica and with grace notes from the same source. I have a charm for the bruising a charm for the blackening a charm for cheats and impostors. I summon from the cold clear air from the bare branches of the trees from worms coiling under the ground – charm against cruel intent charm for neglect charm against wicked indifference:...
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[Sorry for depressing everyone.]
An entirely different colour palette from the Mediterranean. The turquoise blues and iridescence of Greece is certainly more uplifting but when you are here on the east coast of Scotland it has a wonderful effect too. And I still swim in this sea, at least once a year but it's bitterly cold and you come out blue and white and your skin stinging as if
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I was interested in the anniversary today because we have some family history connected to this bleak event. When the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki 70 years ago, my grandfather was in a Japanese prisoner of war camp about 10km away. He was a captain in the merchant navy and their ship had been sunk by German U-boats. The Germans handed him and his...
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