tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9278010712867932832012-02-16T21:07:38.300ZNEW(ISH) LIFE IN SCOTLAND - Part Diary, part confessional, this is my life in Scotland since I moved up here in 2003Bruce Forresthttps://profiles.google.com/116282122253128531584noreply@blogger.comBlogger501100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927801071286793283.post-19192669541645908582011-06-05T01:00:00.000+01:002011-06-05T01:00:42.783+01:00

I recently found a great web site at Matchbox Kits I cut my model making 'teeth' on these classic old kits. I used to have a collection of well over 100 of them, now I only have 1 left, my Handley Page Heyford. Aah, those were the days! Multi coloured sprues, so you didn't need to paint them, all sorts of different genres, from Aircraft to boats and cars to motorbikes, and military vehicles

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Well, the short answer is; not a lot! The one major piece of news is that hopefully we'll finally be in a position to deal with my wife's sleeping problems. She has found it all but impossible to sleep in our double bed. The reason for this is that the Doctor told her she needed to sleep with her head and feet raised. We found that putting wedges on top of the matress didn't work because they

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Following on from my last post, in which I spoke about my fortnight break in England helping to make things better between my wife and I; I recently twisted my neck (twice) in my sleep! Don't ask me how I managed to do it, but I'm convinced my body rolls over and leaves my head behind when I'm in bed!! Not only has this resulted in a lot of pain the last few days, but has also put paid to our

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I've just recently got back from spending a fortnight in Redditch, staying with my Mum & Dad. It was so good to catch up with them, as I hadn't seen them for a couple of years. It was also great to see my two sisters who I hadn't seen for even longer! The two weeks away was also an important time for my wife and I, as things had been so difficult between us for a while, we needed the two weeks

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40 years young today! Gulp! They say that as you get older, your body slows down. If that's the case, why does time seem to speed up?!! Fortunately, I'm still (relatively) fit and healthy, so I can enjoy the life that's supposed to have started, now that I've reached the big 4-0!

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It's not very often that a celebrity passing away upsets me, but for some reason I shed a few tears when I heard the news that former Thin Lizzy guitarist, Gary Moore died whilst on holiday in Spain yesterday. Maybe it was because he was so young (58) and was one of the few musicians who came to prominence in the '70s and 80's who never fell for the Rock 'n Roll lifestyle; he was still fit and

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We had our usual nice, quiet Christmas here, just the 5 of us enjoying the peace and quiet of the season. The girls got what they wanted, my step son was happy with what he got, my wife liked her 'treats' and I was spoilt by my wife as usual! The only thing missing was some fresh snow to be added to the heavy fall we already had the week before Christmas! Another thing that helped was that I

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Well, it's been a while since I posted in my blog, but nothing really worth writing about has happened. Of course, now it's Winter, I've been through one of my bouts of depression, so I wouldn't have been in the right frame of mind to write anything anyway! This year, the whole of the UK has had it really bad with the snow, particularly up here in Scotland. We had a period of just over a week

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I've got so many different hobbies, it can be hard sometimes to concentrate on just one at a time! Let's see, there's model making, there's photography, there's computer gaming, there's writing and now my latest thing is making my own computer game! So, how do I find time for all of this? The simple answer is, I don't! Or to be more precise, I can't! In between all of this, I'm supposed to be

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Here's a collage of pictures of the Thrush we named 'Rainbow' that my 'Big' sis looked after when we were all still living at home, the black cat was our first family cat, her name was Deorc, which, if I remember correctly, is O'lde English' for Dark.

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I don't normally make comments about animal rights issues, my 'big' sister Sara, over at Completely Quackers has far more compassion for animals than I do, but this news story from Russia has got me surprisingly angry. A donkey was forced to parasail as part of a publicity stunt for a new beach being opened in southern Russia. Apparently, it showed great fear and pain when it was dragged into the

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As well as this blog about my life up here in Scotland, I also have a 2nd Blog and also a YouTube Channel. Both of these are dedicated to my Model Making hobby. The blog, which can be found at; Armour Models has extensive details about all the models in my collection, as well as some usefull Model Making hints and tips. The YouTube Channel at; Model Man Bruce has video slideshows of my Model

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It would appear that I have become immune to the bad news on the television and on the interwebnet. A while ago, I would have posted a small memorial message on my Facebook account, every time I learnt of another soldier's death in Afghanistan. Unfortunately I don't do that anymore. I'm wondering whether all this bad news is just starting to go over my head, and I'm becoming numbed by it all.

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Recently I started up my own online shop web site to self publish the e-books which I have written/am in the process of writing. The problem is that I am on such a tight budget that I have been unable to properly market myself. The consequence of this is that I haven't been able to sell any of my e-books yet. However, this might all change soon. This is because I have recently started to write

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My oldest step-daughter has just been for an interview to get into college, with a view to continuing on to University next year. Gosh, it seems like only yesterday, we were having ice cube fights in the back garden, or mashing old bananas into each other's faces!! Both our girls are so grown up now, I can't believe how quickly time has flown by! At the moment, our oldest has set her sights on a

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With all that I've got going on online at the moment, I'm getting quite busy at the moment. I've got my two Blogs that I'm writing posts for, my two Web Sites that I'm running and of course I'm still writing the next e-book for my Online Shop! The downside is that my wife is getting neglected (again!) So, after I finish writing this post, I'm going to log off my P.C. and spend some quality time

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For a little over a year now, I've been swapping between my Windows and Linux Partitions on my PC. Lately though I've come to the conclusion that I'll never be able to afford to upgrade my Windows XP Pro Partition to either Windows Vista or 7. Therefore I'll just be using the Ubuntu free distribution of Linux. Linux is a free, open source development of the Unix Operating System, and has been

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Earlier this week I did a very silly thing, I went and deleted this Blog!! Fortunately I had made a back up of the posts and comments, unfortunately the back up didn't include a list of followers! Thinking my blog was lost forever, I went and created a new one with the same title, then I imported the back up. I then posted on my follower's Blogs, asking them to re-follow me. Well, as it turns

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This is my Challenger 2 model with the aerials fitted at long last. (Also an excuse to set up mobile blogging again, after having problems with my Blogs recently!!).

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Finally after a lot of hard work, my Online Shop is Live! Its been a great experience creating the web site, but it's not been without its difficulties, foremost of which was setting up PayPal. I just hope after all the hard work, people actually want to buy my e-books! At the moment, there is only one available, but I am in the process of researching and writing the next e-book in the series,

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As a quick follow on from my post entitled 'Exciting Times!', I have added the links to my new websites to my favourite sites list, but here they are as well; The first one is my Introduction site that includes details of the subject I'm passionate about ( Armoured Fighting Vehicles ), the second one is a link to my online shop where I will be selling the e-books that I am writing. Armour Fan

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I've just started up a second blog, its all about my military model making hobby, I'll be posting Photos of my existing model collection, and I will also be posting detailed build discriptions for new models that I obtain. The new blog can be found at; Armour Models

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Things have been quite busy here. I've well and truly been bitten by the writing bug, so much so, that I have started writing my own series of Military e-books, which I am working towards self-publishing in my own online shop. The journey here has been a long one, in fact, for a long time, I didn't even realise I was on this journey! A few years back, a friend of mine, who is also obsessed with

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A while ago I was tagged by Aromatic at The Winds of Change to reveal 7 things about myself you don't (or might not) already know. I haven't got round to it before now, because I haven't got 7 online friends I can pass it along to. So I decided to go ahead and do it anyway, but not pass it on. Sorry if that defeats the purpose of the exercise, but here we go anyway!! 1; I used to do Wedding

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On the 16th of March, the wife and I were supposed to be going for a day out at Scotland's Secret Bunker, but the wife has been suffering from a bad cold, and a really nasty cough that just will not go away. So we had to postpone our plans for our day out. This isn't the first time illness in the house has ruined plans we've had. Last October, my Mum and Dad were supposed to be coming up to stay

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It's my birthday on Wednesday, and I'll be 39 (gulp!). I can't believe how quick the start of this year has gone by, normally, it feels like time drags on so slowly between Christmas and my birthday in March, not this year though! So far, this year hasn't been very eventfull, the highlight so far being getting our 2nd new Motability car in the middle of this month. Hopefully, for my birthday, my

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I've just been tagged by my sister Sara at Completely Quackers to name my Favourite Song of all time. A few years ago, that would have been really easy, I would have said With Or Without You by U2 without any hesitation. I'm a huge fan of U2, I like all their songs, with the exception of one; The Sweetest Thing. What were they thinking when they wrote that piece of s**t?!!! Anyway, back to the

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Just trying out my phone's mobile blogging function!!

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First of all I want to wish everyone a Happy New Year, and I hope Everyone had a peacefull Christmas. Where did the year go to? I must be getting old, they do say that the older you get, the quicker time goes by. Lots of things have happened, lots of revelations, lots of arguments, and lots of reconciliations. After an interesting, to say the least, year, it was nice to slow down at Christmas.

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In the past I have said that my blog isn't the place to start getting political, but I can no longer keep this to myself. I apologise if anyone doesn't like reading political posts in blogs, but I feel I can't keep quiet about this any longer. As you know, I also have a Facebook account, and a few of my friends on there are members of the so-called '9/11 Truth' movement. It seems that not a day

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I've just signed up for twitter, my name is spearmint371

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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them. Today is Rememberance Sunday, and across the country people are remembering all those who have given the ultimate sacrifice for their country. It was with great sadness that the M.O.D. today, reported that another soldier

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My parents were supposed to be coming up to visit us at the weekend, the train tickets and the hotel had both been booked and paid for. We were all really looking forward to seeing them, as it had been well over a year since the last time we had seen them, and I know they were looking forward to seeing us just as much. However, on Monday, I had to tell them the bad news that we wouldn't be able

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Since I started this blog, a lot of my posts have been about how I struggle to cope with married life, and being my wife's full time carer. "Woe is me, aint life hard, blah blah blah". Writing this blog, however, has also given me the opportunity to read other people's blogs. What an eye opener this has been for me! One blog in particular has spoken to me about how my life and so called 'problems

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Over the last few weeks and months, things haven't exactly been perfect between my wife and I. I have to admit that I am largely to blame for this. As I have said previously, I have been spending far too much time upstairs, using various excuses, e.g. Getting away from the dog's barking. I've only been married to my wife for about 5 1/2 years, and already I feel that I have got into the routine

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As well as having this blog, I also have a Facebook account. Whilst I use this blog as a diary, to let family know how I'm getting on up here in Scotland, I tend to use Facebook as a more direct means of keeping in touch with friends and family. The best thing about this is, that I have been able to get back in touch with old friends from school, work and church. Its been fascinating to learn

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I started this blog so that I could share some of what I've been doing since I moved up to Scotland. I started with the intention that it would be a diary of how I'm coping with my new life, how I'm coping with my new responsibilties, and also that it would be a way of keeping in touch with my family in England.Its not been as easy as that though! While I want it to be a diary, I also want it to

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As part of my interest in all things military, I have joined a number of Facebook groups that support our Armed Forces. The group that I support the most is a group called Honour Our Troops. It is a charity dedicated to raising funds, so that they can organise a 'Live Aid' style concert in honour of the sacrifices of the brave men and women in the British Armed Forces. As part of their fund

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Well, thats the Summer Holidays nearly over for another year, where did the time go? I'm sure I'm in some kind of time warp, with time just skipping by me, forgetting about me!!We haven't managed to go anywhere this year, apart from the day out at the Edinburgh Dungeon for my oldest daughter's 16th. We've been that busy working on getting the house finished, we just haven't had time for anything

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As I've mentioned before, we've had problems with our Lhasa Apso's constant nuisance barking. I've written about how I was getting stressed out and moody about it, and how it was affecting my relationship with my wife.The last few days have seen almost a complete turnaround. I realised that being stubborn and staying upstairs wasn't helping matters. I also realised that maybe the dog was picking

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One of my biggest faults is that I can be a stubborn b*****d at times! The problem is, that although being stubborn can be a good thing at times, I always seem to pick the wrong times to be stubborn.Here's a recent example of me being stubborn at the wrong time;We have 2 dogs in the house, one is a Lhasa Apso called Rosie, that my wife adopted/rescued (she was previously owned by my wife's Aunt,

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While I've been doing a lot of work in the house, laying the laminate, putting up up grab rails for my wife, etc; I have to confess that I've tended to forget the real reason why I'm putting up the rails in the first place. Lately my wife's pain has been getting worse and she has been struggling more than usual. On her last visit to the Doctor, she was taken off the medication that she takes for

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At last the new flooring is finished! And what a difference it makes to the whole of the downstairs living space! It looks like the whole of the Kitchen/Dinette/Living Room area is just one big L-shaped open space, with continuous flooring throughout. Although in reality, it is broken up by the remains of the old glass dividing wall seen behind the dining chairs in the top picture. Taking down

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I found this poem through Google today, Its called 'For The Fallen' by Laurence Binyon. For those of you who watch the Remembrance Day coverage on television, verse 4 will be familiar, as its quoted every year. However with current events in Afghanistan, and in light of the recent casualty figures I think its particularly appropriate now. Here it is in full;With proud thanksgiving, a mother for

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I've been busy laying new flooring the last couple of weeks, so far, I have finished the kitchen, ripped up the old Laminate in the living room and next I need to lay the new Laminate in the living room. The kitchen, with the new units fitted by the local council and the new flooring is looking really nice. Unfortunately, the new flooring only shows up well in the middle picture. In the bottom

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As you might have guessed, by looking at my list of blogs that I follow, I'm interested in all things Military, in particular, the UK Military. Now, in case you're thinking I'm a gun nut, I'm not (in fact I believe the British Government made the right decision when it banned the possession and use of firearms after the Hungerford and Dunblane massacres), I just firmly believe in our country

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In my first post, I mentioned that I hadn't been as close to my Dad as I was to the rest of my family. Thinking back, I've realised that this was probably entirely my own fault. As I've already mentioned, when I was going through my bouts of depression, I took advantage of my family's love and support. Now obviously, they're not stupid, they knew what I was doing. They even tried to let me know

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Up here in Scotland the kids break up for their Summer Holidays earlier than they do in the rest of the UK. So far, we haven't really been anywhere or done anything, except for our trip to The Edinburgh Dungeon for our oldest daughter's 16th. Usually we like to go for lots of days out. We have memberships with Historic Scotland and the RSPB. There's lots of places we haven't visited yet, and

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Yesterday was my oldest daughter's 16th birthday. We always try to do something special for our daughter's birthdays, but for one reason or another, it doesn't always work out like that. For example, last year we took her on a Haven holiday, (I know thats not all that special, but as a family we rarely get the oppurtunity to go on holiday, due mainly to my wifes illnesses), so anyway, we get to

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I've been up here in Falkirk for six years now, and so far its been very eventful!!First, I got married in April 2004. It was just a quiet Civil Ceremony, we didnt want a big fuss made. This is my first marriage, and my wife's third. She has 3 children from her previous partners, a boy, and 2 girls.I knew that it would be quite difficult coming into what was already an established family unit,

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