DC-3

DC-3
Originally uploaded by Clackety

An awkward crop ...

winTer

is tough, because by the time you've finished work (or, done as much work as you're going to do), it's dark ...

Princes St

Homeward bound - back to work to-morrow ...

tollCross

in lieu of panTo ...

aChievement

The children and I spent this afternoon doing a jigsaw ...

sKy

Trying to be positive

Not particularly successfully ...

Back at work

Struggling, already ...

pur(r)Pose

pur(r)Pose
Originally uploaded by Glaswegian

The New Year period is an opportunity to review, evaluate; but there needs to be freedom, resource. If life (particularly at work) is a constant struggle to survive, then trying to make positive changes is going to fail.

I made a serious mistake last year, but this is a new year ...

Hitting the sales

Traditional early January activity - although it was a lovely day - a traditional (two days after) new year's day walk might have been healthier ...

Positive change

If you make a change - how do you know whether it will make things worse, or better?

sPooky

musselBurgh snow

What went wrong

Or - why am I not at the Leuchars Air Show to-day? The good thing is that my daughter is there (with her godfather). But my son didn't want to go. Worse, he didn't want me to go ...

Autumn

A few yellowish leaves / having to switch on the light / business ahead ...

Music room

sidHolme

a Different View

Of this pier ...

Going back in time

skyWard

Work commences ...

Windows

Now abideth faith, hope, love ...

Foggy

Tranent was in sunshine; Portobello on the edge of the fog ...

That's it!

The original plan was to climb the seven hills (upon which Edinburgh, like Rome, is built) during one calendar year. Somehow it morphed into climbing Blackford Hill once a month. And, this being December, as 2009 draws to a close ...

Back from the vet

The cats have been vaccinated and chipped ...

thereFore I shop

Possibly not the best image for Buy Nothing Day ...

November

As the forecast predicted: bright and breezy ...

Catching the early sun

Slice
Originally uploaded by Glaswegian

Half of the building lit, half of the building in darkness ...

the Observatory in autumn

 
A good day to be on the (blackFord) hill - unseasonably mild, I reckon - bright and clear ...

Words

Funny things - insubstantial, yet powerful ...

Light

 
... looking an other way ...

more darkNess

 
... taken on Gullane Beach ...

Winter is coming

 
... fewer people on the (blackFord) hill ...

Missing

... since Monday ...

QMU

I attended a green computing event last week - then went for a walk, and took this picture ...

no Photo

I should have checked before I left the office. But when I tried to switch on my camera to take a picture of Arthur's Seat - no response - or, rather, an all too brief, insubstantial response. So to-day's ascent of Blackford Hill is being recorded in prose, alone. Fortunately (for me), the wind had abated somewhat, and there was no rain. And I took a music player, listening to Shostakovich - mostly a plodding movement, appropriately accompanying my turgid progress up the hill.

Late August, beginning to feel the cold - autumn is on its way ...

Indicator

Back on top of Blackford Hill - quite breezy ...

It wisnae me

That's all I'm saying ...

too Much

On this hot, muggy day, I chose to turn back at the bottom of Observatory Road ...

Royal Observatory

Royal Observatory
Originally uploaded by Glaswegian

Chose not to ascend Blackford Hill itself to-day, but instead a neighbouring 'top', whence I captured this view ...

Moving on

... or trying to ...

Indicator

Thankfully, apart from an early sprinkling, the rain held off ...

Another view

Managed to ascend Blackford Hill again this week. What started out as a weekly activity has become monthly ...

Novelty

Son appeared downstairs, fully dressed, at a quarter past six this morning, so he's ready to go, and here I am, blogging, holding everybody else up - well, it makes a change ...

No go

Offices no more ...

Finished

A tiring and frustrating day ...

Moving

@Work - our old offices are to become a Learning and Teaching Centre ...

World Autism Awareness Day

To-day, I apologise for a plaintive little post - but I shall say this only once ...

When I was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, nearly a year ago, I thought that my diagnosis would unlock resources that would help me through the various difficulties I was experiencing. In one respect I have benefited: I have found riches in the catalogue of Jessica Kingsley Publishers - books within which again and again I find resonance. And personally, I understand myself better. But I have been disappointed that no practical help has been forthcoming.

I am fortunate. I have a full time job, and a family. My impression is that, for those who have neither, there are places to go where people will help. But faced with the challenges posed by trying to cope, I find myself still struggling to craft my own solutions. I probably spend too much time in front of a computer - inside and outside of work - but am grateful for those tools which do make a difference. My latest discovery, through the auspices of computerAct!ve magazine, is the Chandler Project, which allows me to pile all the stuff in my mind into a heap.

But working, parenting adults with AS could do with some help, and find it difficult to go about asking for help ...

The cat

Is less scruffy than he used to be, we're told ...

An injured cat

Who's been in a fight ...

A confused cat

Who doesn't know that the clocks have gone forward ...

An ex building society?

Anxious for news of the Dunfermline Building Society which according to the news websites is about to be broken up, but which according to its own website is still doing 'business as usual' ...

The cat

has made himself comfortable ...

What happened to spring?

On the other hand, though, this is the kind of night when it is especially nice to be indoors and tucked up in a warm bed ...

Another cat picture

Catching the sun ...