The Shoogly Peg

Do you know what makes me cross? Well, if you’ve ever read my blog before, you’ll know that lots and lots of things make me cross. In fact if you judged my state of mind just on the basis of my blogging, you’d think I existed in a state of constant cross-eyed fury, steam permanently [...]

One afternoon this summer, I stood by a fence in Lossiemouth, head tilted back and eyes fixed on a moving dot on the horizon. Beside me were my partner and another holidaymaking family, each of us staring in the same direction, watching the dot as it slowly became an aeroplane. Inadvertently we ducked as it [...]