Tag Archives: #blogging4life

Three in the Wild

Posted on 28th June 2025 by NomadWarMachine

Out in the garden after breakfast today – losing the cats under the long grass, marveling at all of the fruit on our apple and plum trees. It was hard to find a place to take a photo of only … Continue reading →

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UofG Chapel

Posted on 26th June 2025 by NomadWarMachine

I was feeling pretty low yesterday, but it was a lovely day and I was glad to travel up to uni for a couple of meetings. As I got off the bus I stopped to look over the Kelvin at … Continue reading →

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JOMO – The Joy of Missing Out

Posted on 24th June 2025 by NomadWarMachine

As a bricoleur I have cultivated a habit of saying “yes”, and “yes, and …”, and this has opened me up to many wonderful experiences. Saying yes has helped me to: learn new skills meet interesting people – including a … Continue reading →

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Knitting memories

Posted on 4th June 2025 by NomadWarMachine

With a new great nephew due soon, I’ve been spending time knitting for him – a hap to wrap him in when he arrives 134/365 Hap flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license A stripy jacket … Continue reading →

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Daily Photos

Posted on 1st June 2025 by NomadWarMachine

Five months of photos, one a day. Every day a moment taken to pause and look closely at my surroundings.

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Unparalleled Misalignments

Posted on 29th May 2025 by NomadWarMachine

An excellent Daily Create today: Unparalleled Misalignments are “pairs of non-synonymous phrases where the words in one phrase are each synonyms of the words in the other.” Did you see what we did there in the title of today’s Daily … Continue reading →

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The seven stages of writing

Posted on 27th May 2025 by NomadWarMachine

Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, “Fool,” said my Muse to me, “look in thy heart, and write.” Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella. I used to agonise over how I wrote, because it seemed to be so … Continue reading →

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Castle in the Sky

Posted on 9th May 2025 by NomadWarMachine

Today’s Daily Create asks us to: Design your version of a castle in the sky. Make a drawing or an image of your castle in the sky (note that make does not mean “make a google search for someone else’s image”) I found a … Continue reading →

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Ross Priory

Posted on 3rd May 2025 by NomadWarMachine

After a busy few months at work it was lovely to get away this week. Niall booked the Lochside Cottage at Ross Priory for a few days and we drove up after lunch on Monday. An oyster catcher was watching … Continue reading →

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120 days of 2025

Posted on 1st May 2025 by NomadWarMachine

Another month gone, another 30 photos.  Here’s the 120 days of 2025 so far

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