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https://galenote.blogspot.com/2023/02/blogland-and-real-life.html EAGLETON NOTES: Blogland and "Real Life" It had been my intention this month to spend a lot more time in Blogland. Unfortunately my "other" life has been dominant. I was going to sa... eagleton notesbloglandreallife https://galenote.blogspot.com/2011/07/crowded-beaches.html EAGLETON NOTES: Crowded Beaches The beaches of Lewis - in this case Uig in the far west - get a bit crowded - sometimes: eagleton notescrowdedbeaches https://galenote.blogspot.com/2013/07/thankful-thursday-enjoy-your-bath.html EAGLETON NOTES: Thankful Thursday: Enjoy Your Bath The hot weather and the plethora of young birds in the garden has meant that the gentle and constant flow of water down the waterfall into ... eagleton notesthankful thursdayenjoybath https://galenote.blogspot.com/2013/03/ EAGLETON NOTES: March 2013 NOTES FROM THE ISLE OF LEWIS IN SCOTLAND'S OUTER HEBRIDES AND ANYWHERE ELSE I HAPPEN TO FIND MYSELF eagleton notesmarch https://galenote.blogspot.com/2020/ EAGLETON NOTES: 2020 NOTES FROM THE ISLE OF LEWIS IN SCOTLAND'S OUTER HEBRIDES AND ANYWHERE ELSE I HAPPEN TO FIND MYSELF eagleton notes https://galenote.blogspot.com/2017/02/ EAGLETON NOTES: February 2017 NOTES FROM THE ISLE OF LEWIS IN SCOTLAND'S OUTER HEBRIDES AND ANYWHERE ELSE I HAPPEN TO FIND MYSELF eagleton notesfebruary https://galenote.blogspot.com/2025/02/absent.html EAGLETON NOTES: Absent This is just a quick post of explanation because some have wondered why I wasn't responding to comments in my last post (which I have now do... eagleton notesabsent https://galenote.blogspot.com/2009/10/its-all-little-things.html EAGLETON NOTES: It's All The Little Things It's all the little things that take the time and make me just that little bit anxious when I'm about to leave my Eagleton home for my New Z... eagleton notesall thelittlethings https://galenote.blogspot.com/2022/04/personal-responsibility.html EAGLETON NOTES: Personal Responsibility This is, of course, a huge topic on which every one of us who read and write blogs doubtless has an opinion. However this is a very narrow a... eagleton notespersonalresponsibility https://galenote.blogspot.com/2011/06/chirk-castle.html EAGLETON NOTES: Chirk Castle I can't believe that it's over two weeks since CJ, Jo and I visited Chirk Castle at Chirk near Wrexham in North Wales. It seems like an ag... eagleton noteschirkcastle https://galenote.blogspot.com/2020/11/lewis-memories-1.html EAGLETON NOTES: Lewis Memories - 1 When we bought our first house on Lewis we moved in in February 1976. I had already been here for 3 months. I, and a colleague, had been boa... eagleton noteslewismemories https://galenote.blogspot.com/2009/05/drive-to-tolsta.html EAGLETON NOTES: A Drive to Tolsta On Tuesday I met Muriel and Andy from The Shrub Stall at Tolsta. They are back from spending their winter in the Caribean. Muriel told me ... eagleton notesdrive https://galenote.blogspot.com/2010/09/maizing.html EAGLETON NOTES: A Maizing I'm so sorry. I try not to inflict titles like that on you too often. After all I don't want to lose you. But this is so feeble and obvio... eagleton notes https://galenote.blogspot.com/2014/08/ EAGLETON NOTES: August 2014 NOTES FROM THE ISLE OF LEWIS IN SCOTLAND'S OUTER HEBRIDES AND ANYWHERE ELSE I HAPPEN TO FIND MYSELF eagleton notesaugust https://galenote.blogspot.com/2018/11/ EAGLETON NOTES: November 2018 NOTES FROM THE ISLE OF LEWIS IN SCOTLAND'S OUTER HEBRIDES AND ANYWHERE ELSE I HAPPEN TO FIND MYSELF eagleton notesnovember https://galenote.blogspot.com/2021/12/christmas-day-2021.html EAGLETON NOTES: Christmas Day 2021 It's Christmas Day afternoon. I wish you a very Happy Christmas (or what's left of it). Of course I would expect you to be concentrating on... eagleton noteschristmas day https://galenote.blogspot.com/2010/07/first-day.html EAGLETON NOTES: The First Day We played 9 games yesterday! That's a lot of games. You expect 6 or even 7 but I can't recall playing 9 in a tournament before. It was re... eagleton notesthe firstday https://galenote.blogspot.com/2011/09/thankful-thursday-on-friday.html EAGLETON NOTES: Thankful Thursday (on Friday) I went to a wedding yesterday. The wedding of a special person. OK, I know that everyone is special in one way or another but for today I... eagleton notesthankful thursdayfriday https://galenote.blogspot.com/2015/03/on-what-day-were-you-born.html EAGLETON NOTES: On What Day Were You Born? A recent post by Red talked about the day on which he was born. Many of us know, and many of us don't know, the day of our birth. I was bo... eagleton notesdayborn https://galenote.blogspot.com/2011/07/soooo-much.html EAGLETON NOTES: Soooo Much to do and so little time. OK I know I'm not alone in having that problem. CJ and I arrived back in Eagleton late Tuesday evening after a... eagleton notessoooomuch https://galenote.blogspot.com/2009/10/explain-this-then.html EAGLETON NOTES: Explain This Then I had another dream this morning. I can recall nothing - in fact there may have been nothing - more than the following: I was watching two... eagleton notesexplain this https://galenote.blogspot.com/2009/09/ EAGLETON NOTES: September 2009 NOTES FROM THE ISLE OF LEWIS IN SCOTLAND'S OUTER HEBRIDES AND ANYWHERE ELSE I HAPPEN TO FIND MYSELF eagleton notesseptember https://galenote.blogspot.com/2014/06/communicating.html EAGLETON NOTES: Communicating I've just posted several letters, two post cards and a three notecards to friends and family in New Zealand and several other countries inc... eagleton notescommunicating https://galenote.blogspot.com/2009/05/sometimes-its-in-detail.html EAGLETON NOTES: Sometimes It's In The Detail When I was in Exeter with CJ we went, as we usually do, into the city centre for a wander and, more specifically on this occasion, I wanted ... eagleton notesin thesometimesdetail https://galenote.blogspot.com/2011/08/ EAGLETON NOTES: August 2011 NOTES FROM THE ISLE OF LEWIS IN SCOTLAND'S OUTER HEBRIDES AND ANYWHERE ELSE I HAPPEN TO FIND MYSELF eagleton notesaugust https://galenote.blogspot.com/2017/07/the-thinker.html EAGLETON NOTES: The Thinker I've titled this 'The Thinker'. It was taken at Brunch where CJ and I sometimes have our coffee and a bacon roll. CJ wasn't sleeping. We ... eagleton notesthinker https://galenote.blogspot.com/2009/09/bramall-hall.html EAGLETON NOTES: Bramall Hall Yesterday Lesley (whom I've known since I was 4) and I met for lunch and a walk and some catching up. After lunch we walked through the gro... eagleton noteshall https://galenote.blogspot.com/2009/06/morven-gallery.html EAGLETON NOTES: Morven Gallery Yesterday we toddled across the moors to the West side of the Island to see the sights on the way up to Ness and the Butt of Lewis . The d... eagleton notesmorvengallery https://galenote.blogspot.com/2010/09/hands.html EAGLETON NOTES: Hands Two years ago almost to the day I posted about John and Sue's version of a visitors book - ' Hands in the Back Passage '. Last year I was u... eagleton noteshands https://galenote.blogspot.com/2012/05/solomon-in-all-his-glory.html EAGLETON NOTES: Solomon in all his glory 'Consider the lilies of the field how they grow: they toil not neither do they spin; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory ... eagleton notesall hissolomonglory https://galenote.blogspot.com/2025/07/ EAGLETON NOTES: July 2025 NOTES FROM THE ISLE OF LEWIS IN SCOTLAND'S OUTER HEBRIDES AND ANYWHERE ELSE I HAPPEN TO FIND MYSELF eagleton notesjuly https://galenote.blogspot.com/2020/03/friday-thirteenth.html EAGLETON NOTES: Friday The Thirteenth I have never been superstitious. Touch wood I never will be. However there was a moment today when I felt that Friday The Thirteenth might ... eagleton notesfriday thethirteenth https://galenote.blogspot.com/2010/07/arcane-post-2.html EAGLETON NOTES: Arcane Post - 2 I recently posted on the subject of A Cynical View of Jars . I said at the end that it was an arcane post. I think I thought that the word... eagleton notesarcanepost https://galenote.blogspot.com/2011/09/ EAGLETON NOTES: September 2011 NOTES FROM THE ISLE OF LEWIS IN SCOTLAND'S OUTER HEBRIDES AND ANYWHERE ELSE I HAPPEN TO FIND MYSELF eagleton notesseptember https://galenote.blogspot.com/2009/09/happiness-is-evening-with-people-about.html EAGLETON NOTES: Happiness Is An Evening With People About Whom You Care Just over a year ago I wrote the following posting. For various reasons I didn't post it at the time. I am staying with my God-daughter at... an evening witheagleton noteshappiness is https://galenote.blogspot.com/2010/09/sad-bear.html EAGLETON NOTES: A Sad Bear Now this bear has no reason to be sad having apparently been rescued from a life as a status symbol to a Mafia gangster. So the fact that he... eagleton notessadbear https://galenote.blogspot.com/2023/09/blogger-spam-again.html EAGLETON NOTES: Blogger - Spam - Again! Well I have caught Blogger well and truly this time. I have become fastidious in checking my 'Comments' folders ever since comments I was ce... eagleton notesbloggerspam https://galenote.blogspot.com/2015/04/ EAGLETON NOTES: April 2015 NOTES FROM THE ISLE OF LEWIS IN SCOTLAND'S OUTER HEBRIDES AND ANYWHERE ELSE I HAPPEN TO FIND MYSELF eagleton notesapril https://galenote.blogspot.com/2021/12/thanks.html EAGLETON NOTES: Thanks I've been alive for the best part of 8 decades and people can still surprise or even shock me with very simple things. In Glasgow when you... eagleton notesthanks https://galenote.blogspot.com/2020/04/sid-43-catching-up.html EAGLETON NOTES: SID 43 Catching Up - That Was April Is it really 11 days since I visited Blogland properly. I used the word 'properly' because I have made the occasional Covid-19 type skirmis... eagleton notescatching upsidapril https://galenote.blogspot.com/2012/07/kestrel-on-lewis.html?showComment=1342082021712 EAGLETON NOTES: Kestrel on Lewis I do not think that in the nearly 40 years I have lived on Lewis I have ever positively identified a Kestrel here before today. Today I no... eagleton noteskestrellewis https://galenote.blogspot.com/2010/08/off-to-france.html EAGLETON NOTES: Off To France I had all sorts of plans for postings for the last few days but whilst things have gone well I've hardly managed to live any of my life in ... eagleton notesfrance https://galenote.blogspot.com/2011/10/molly-taking-us-for-walk.html EAGLETON NOTES: Molly taking Us For a Walk What an intelligent face is that! Shame about the chap with two legs though. eagleton notesmollytakinguswalk https://galenote.blogspot.com/2009/09/underbank-hall-stockport.html EAGLETON NOTES: Underbank Hall, Stockport It shouldn't amaze me living in the UK but every now and then in the middle of towns and cities surrounded by more recent buildings one ... eagleton noteshallstockport https://galenote.blogspot.com/2008/ EAGLETON NOTES: 2008 NOTES FROM THE ISLE OF LEWIS IN SCOTLAND'S OUTER HEBRIDES AND ANYWHERE ELSE I HAPPEN TO FIND MYSELF eagleton notes https://galenote.blogspot.com/2008/05/leaving-of-lewis_27.html EAGLETON NOTES: The Leaving of Lewis One of my favourite pictures is a triptych by Deborah Cameron . It hangs above a door and I look at it every time I leave my living room. ... eagleton notesleavinglewis https://galenote.blogspot.com/2013/10/a-new-dog-on-block.html EAGLETON NOTES: A New Dog on The Block Just over two years ago Elodie was born in Maumulon, France. Two months later she found a new home further south near Duras with Viv. The... eagleton notesnew dogblock https://galenote.blogspot.com/2022/06/a-friend-stayed.html EAGLETON NOTES: A Friend Stayed I have just taken a friend to the plane for her journey home to Glasgow. We've known each other a couple of years shy of half a century. It... eagleton notesfriendstayed https://galenote.blogspot.com/2011/05/glimpses-of-week-gone-by-harris.html EAGLETON NOTES: Glimpses of a Week Gone By: Harris eagleton notesglimpsesweekgoneharris https://galenote.blogspot.com/2009/06/foggy-day.html EAGLETON NOTES: A Foggy Day I went to Glasgow today. Once upon a time in another incarnation it was something I did quite often. Now I usually do it as part of a long... eagleton notesfoggyday https://galenote.blogspot.com/2008/09/ironing.html EAGLETON NOTES: Ironing I realise that I am relatively unusual amongst both men and women of my acquaintance in liking ironing. I don't regard it as a waste of tim... eagleton notesironing https://galenote.blogspot.com/2025/06/ EAGLETON NOTES: June 2025 NOTES FROM THE ISLE OF LEWIS IN SCOTLAND'S OUTER HEBRIDES AND ANYWHERE ELSE I HAPPEN TO FIND MYSELF eagleton notesjune https://galenote.blogspot.com/2014/06/thankful-thursday.html EAGLETON NOTES: Thankful Thursday I have now been on this earth in this life for 70 years. I was born two days before D-Day (the Normandy Landings on the 6 June 1944) and n... eagleton notesthankfulthursday https://galenote.blogspot.com/2016/01/ EAGLETON NOTES: January 2016 NOTES FROM THE ISLE OF LEWIS IN SCOTLAND'S OUTER HEBRIDES AND ANYWHERE ELSE I HAPPEN TO FIND MYSELF eagleton notesjanuary https://galenote.blogspot.com/2013/06/ EAGLETON NOTES: June 2013 NOTES FROM THE ISLE OF LEWIS IN SCOTLAND'S OUTER HEBRIDES AND ANYWHERE ELSE I HAPPEN TO FIND MYSELF eagleton notesjune https://galenote.blogspot.com/2013/02/ EAGLETON NOTES: February 2013 NOTES FROM THE ISLE OF LEWIS IN SCOTLAND'S OUTER HEBRIDES AND ANYWHERE ELSE I HAPPEN TO FIND MYSELF eagleton notesfebruary https://galenote.blogspot.com/2012/08/ EAGLETON NOTES: August 2012 NOTES FROM THE ISLE OF LEWIS IN SCOTLAND'S OUTER HEBRIDES AND ANYWHERE ELSE I HAPPEN TO FIND MYSELF eagleton notesaugust https://galenote.blogspot.com/2022/07/ EAGLETON NOTES: July 2022 NOTES FROM THE ISLE OF LEWIS IN SCOTLAND'S OUTER HEBRIDES AND ANYWHERE ELSE I HAPPEN TO FIND MYSELF eagleton notesjuly https://galenote.blogspot.com/2013/10/portrait-of-place.html EAGLETON NOTES: Portrait of a Place Andrea , a fellow Islander and blogger with a thousand old film cameras, a penchant for black and white (and various photographic technique... eagleton notesportraitplace https://galenote.blogspot.com/2023/03/money.html EAGLETON NOTES: Money I arrived back from my Mainland trip with an old friend with whom I stay when I'm in the Glasgow area. We originally met in 2006 in New Zeal... eagleton notesmoney https://galenote.blogspot.com/2010/09/and-my-plan-is-to-have-no-plans-for.html EAGLETON NOTES: My Plan My plan is to have no plans for the next few weeks. I'm back in Eagleton having arrived at nearly 10pm yesterday after a drive through the... eagleton notesplan https://galenote.blogspot.com/2010/09/brief-monday-update.html EAGLETON NOTES: A Brief Monday Update At 0630 sleep alluded me. So I lay there and composed this blog posting. After a while I got up and showered (bathroom ensuite) and emerged ... eagleton notesbriefmondayupdate https://galenote.blogspot.com/2015/09/ EAGLETON NOTES: September 2015 NOTES FROM THE ISLE OF LEWIS IN SCOTLAND'S OUTER HEBRIDES AND ANYWHERE ELSE I HAPPEN TO FIND MYSELF eagleton notesseptember https://galenote.blogspot.com/2009/09/very-strange-night-indeed.html EAGLETON NOTES: A Very Strange Night Indeed It's all disappearing so quickly now that I am properly awake and up and about. But I have just spent seven and a half of the strangest hou... eagleton notesstrangenightindeed https://galenote.blogspot.com/2024/12/home-again.html EAGLETON NOTES: Home - Again Thank you all very much for your comments on my last post. I read most of them in hospital on my phone and then on my laptop when I eventual... eagleton notes https://galenote.blogspot.com/2019/12/ EAGLETON NOTES: December 2019 NOTES FROM THE ISLE OF LEWIS IN SCOTLAND'S OUTER HEBRIDES AND ANYWHERE ELSE I HAPPEN TO FIND MYSELF eagleton notesdecember https://galenote.blogspot.com/2012/06/frances-garrood-talks-to-her-horse.html EAGLETON NOTES: Frances Garrood Talks to Her Horse When she is not talking to her horse, Titch, or berating people (I know, I'm a victim) for their use or misuse of the English language Fran... eagleton notesfrancestalkshorse https://galenote.blogspot.com/2010/09/study-in-pink-and-green.html EAGLETON NOTES: A Study in Pink and Green Unfortunately I'm not sure what sort of plant this is and I have no books with me. If I were in Villeneuve there would be plenty of people t... eagleton notesstudy inpinkgreen https://galenote.blogspot.com/2009/05/what-do-these-tell-you.html EAGLETON NOTES: What Do These Tell You? A short while ago I said that one can learn a lot from a person's fridge magnets . A friend wondered recently whether fridge magnets were a... eagleton noteswhat dotell https://galenote.blogspot.com/2010/09/tilly-and-millie.html EAGLETON NOTES: Tilly and Millie A friend, Viv, has two Bearded Collies or Beardies (a herding breed of dog, once used primarily by Scottish shepherds, but now mostly a popu... eagleton notestillymillie https://galenote.blogspot.com/2021/07/dawn-and-stornoway.html EAGLETON NOTES: Dawn and Stornoway My brother, CJ, is staying with me. His wife, Jo, arrives a few days into August. After a week of distinctly un-summery weather we've had a ... eagleton notesdawnstornoway https://galenote.blogspot.com/2009/09/i-went-for-walk.html EAGLETON NOTES: I Went For A Walk A few days before I came away from Eagleton, Marcel went off to see his son and grand-children and took the car so I went for a walk over ... eagleton noteswentwalk https://galenote.blogspot.com/2009/10/shakespeare-imortalised-in-glasgow-loo.html EAGLETON NOTES: Shakespeare Imortalised in a Glasgow Loo When Anna and I went to The People's Palace I answered the call of nature and was most impressed by the fact that the loos were pristine an... eagleton notesshakespeareglasgowloo https://galenote.blogspot.com/2016/06/sts-morgenster.html EAGLETON NOTES: STS Morgenster I looked out of the window and below the house in the bay was a sailing ship. Whilst we have the Tall Ships and occasional sail training... eagleton notesstsmorgenster https://galenote.blogspot.com/2010/09/at-sainte-foy-la-grande-station.html EAGLETON NOTES: At Sainte Foy La Grande Station David and I got a lift from Villeneuve to Sainte Foy La Grande. There's no rural bus service around this part of France (in fact, so far as ... eagleton notessainte foyla grandestation https://galenote.blogspot.com/2009/05/change-in-weather.html EAGLETON NOTES: A Change in The Weather Since I arrived back on Lewis the weather has been pretty good. It's been sunny most of the time although yesterday we did have some cloud ... eagleton notesin thechangeweather https://galenote.blogspot.com/2023/02/ferries-and-electric-cars.html EAGLETON NOTES: Ferries and Electric Cars. The Havila Ferry Company in Norway (which has state of the art hybrid ro-ro ferries wandering around pristine fjords for 4 hours on electric... eagleton notesferrieselectriccars https://galenote.blogspot.com/2018/03/an-alarm-lesson-and-luck.html EAGLETON NOTES: An Alarm , A Lesson and Luck On grounds of good behaviour (or possibly because I was actually considered well enough) I was released from hospital yesterday. I have... eagleton notesalarmlessonluck https://galenote.blogspot.com/2009/06/marmite-yet-again.html EAGLETON NOTES: Marmite: Yet Again Anyone who has followed this blog since its inception and knows me knows that I love Marmite . I'm not the sort of person who insists on ea... eagleton notesmarmiteyet https://galenote.blogspot.com/2011/09/i-need-rest.html EAGLETON NOTES: I Need a Rest!! The last five days have been wonderful - full being the operative word. We've done so much. Every night dinner was with at least half a ... eagleton notesi needrest https://galenote.blogspot.com/2014/11/new-kids-on-block.html EAGLETON NOTES: New Kids on The Block I am now surrounded. Well that's a bit of an exaggeration because I only have houses to the South of me. However all but one of the neare... eagleton notesnew kidsblock https://galenote.blogspot.com/2009/09/home-grown.html EAGLETON NOTES: Home Grown A few weeks agoMargaret from Margaret's Ramblings blogged about Lost Potatoes . In my comment I said that I had a friend, Iain, who grew po... eagleton notesgrown https://galenote.blogspot.com/2014/06/yesterday-change.html EAGLETON NOTES: Yesterday: Change Last Wednesday I suddenly decided to replace the wooden internal window ledge in my kitchen with a while plastic one. I'd started the job ... eagleton notesyesterdaychange https://galenote.blogspot.com/2022/12/ EAGLETON NOTES: December 2022 NOTES FROM THE ISLE OF LEWIS IN SCOTLAND'S OUTER HEBRIDES AND ANYWHERE ELSE I HAPPEN TO FIND MYSELF eagleton notesdecember https://galenote.blogspot.com/2009/06/wonder-of-spiders.html EAGLETON NOTES: The Wonder of Spiders Spiders are not one of my favourite creatures. But I have a Brother and a Niece with an almost proselytising enthusiasm for nature and inse... eagleton notesthe wonderspiders https://galenote.blogspot.com/2020/10/halloween.html EAGLETON NOTES: Halloween Call me a party-pooper if you wish but I have always detested participating in Guising or Trick or Treat (depending on where one was brought... eagleton noteshalloween https://galenote.blogspot.com/2009/05/cradle-or-tiny-boat.html EAGLETON NOTES: A Cradle or a Tiny Boat? Last week when I was in Exteter, CJ, Helen and I visited the museum at Bicton Park. It's a treasure trove of old farm equipment and such lik... eagleton notescradletinyboat https://galenote.blogspot.com/2012/05/thankful-thursday.html EAGLETON NOTES: Thankful Thursday Buzzards and Corncrakes There used to be buzzards mewing and flying around the valley at the side of my house all the time but in the l... eagleton notesthankfulthursday https://galenote.blogspot.com/2009/06/wot-i-am-missing.html EAGLETON NOTES: Wot I am Missing? As views from a flat in urban Glasgow go the views from Gaz's flat are pretty good and he is not overlooked by other flats or buildings (unl... eagleton notesi amwotmissing https://galenote.blogspot.com/2011/07/just-toddle.html EAGLETON NOTES: Just a Toddle Just 265 miles today from Ambleside to Spean Bridge in the Scottish Highlands. It only rained torrentially during the journey when we stoppe... eagleton notestoddle https://galenote.blogspot.com/2015/01/lightbulb-moment.html EAGLETON NOTES: Lightbulb Moment eagleton noteslightbulbmoment https://galenote.blogspot.com/2015/01/broadband-dreams.html EAGLETON NOTES: Broadband Dreams Before I came away it was a hectic few days with the BT Openreach engineer trying to sort out my broadband connection. The engineer was a g... eagleton notesbroadbanddreams https://galenote.blogspot.com/2008/09/not-too-far.html EAGLETON NOTES: Not Too Far Every day when I wake up I remember that I must never take my good fortune for granted. Few people are blessed with having so many good fri... eagleton notesfar https://galenote.blogspot.com/2009/06/just-like-old-times.html EAGLETON NOTES: Just Like Old Times Recently I've been travelling between Stornoway and Glasgow by air. This is something I used to do almost weekly for a while and, for many ... eagleton noteslikeoldtimes https://galenote.blogspot.com/2012/06/missing-you-already.html EAGLETON NOTES: Missing You Already On one of the occasions I was in Canada visiting my almost-lifelong friend, Mo, I had a circular badge which said "Don't tell me what kind ... eagleton notesmissing youalready https://galenote.blogspot.com/2023/03/hassle.html EAGLETON NOTES: Hassle I'm in Glasgow. It's cold, wet and windy. Sometimes I just yearn for some sun. I was supposed to leave the Island on Monday with hospital ap... eagleton noteshassle https://galenote.blogspot.com/2011/05/friggatriskaidekaphobia.html EAGLETON NOTES: Friggatriskaidekaphobia Perhaps after last Friday I should have realised that there would be a word meaning 'fear of Friday the 13th'. However, not even being supe... eagleton notes https://galenote.blogspot.com/2009/01/sucked-into-blogland.html EAGLETON NOTES: Sucked Into Blogland I started A Hebridean in New Zealand towards the end of 2007. My Brother had been blogging for a while and it seemed to me that it was a w... eagleton notessuckedblogland https://galenote.blogspot.com/2020/09/ EAGLETON NOTES: September 2020 NOTES FROM THE ISLE OF LEWIS IN SCOTLAND'S OUTER HEBRIDES AND ANYWHERE ELSE I HAPPEN TO FIND MYSELF eagleton notesseptember https://galenote.blogspot.com/2023/01/ EAGLETON NOTES: January 2023 NOTES FROM THE ISLE OF LEWIS IN SCOTLAND'S OUTER HEBRIDES AND ANYWHERE ELSE I HAPPEN TO FIND MYSELF eagleton notesjanuary