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Some Things I Miss

January 23, 2021 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 3 Comments

What do you miss being able to do?

Mind Yourself

January 10, 2021January 10, 2021 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 2 Comments

On feeling precarious right now.

Are You In A Bumble?

January 6, 2021 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 2 Comments

Make like a Gumble and get through the new lockdown.

That Was The Year That Was

December 29, 2020December 29, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 2 Comments

We’re not quite done with it yet, but as good as. Just a couple more days and we’ll be into a new year with fresh challenges. Are you glad to see the back of 2020, or were there some things about the year that surprised you and that you secretly quite liked?

Navigating the Doldrums

November 21, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 1 Comment

British yachtsman, Alex Thomson, is currently competing in the Vendée-Globe; a round-the-world, single-handed sailing race. It should take him around ten to eleven weeks to complete it. I heard him interviewed on the radio one morning this week, just nine days in. I shivered with horror as I lay in bed calculating how many days … Continue reading Navigating the Doldrums

What Am I Doing?

September 12, 2020September 12, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 2 Comments

I’ve not been feeling well lately and so I’ve been moping around, achieving little. At least that’s what I tell myself, whilst successfully discounting those bits and bobs I am getting done between bouts of inactivity. Yet all I can focus on is the inactivity, which is very unfashionable these days, to be slothful, unless … Continue reading What Am I Doing?

Spike

September 8, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ Leave a comment

Today, I am obsessing about spikes.

Happiness Writes White

August 17, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 1 Comment

I had never heard the phrase before and then (how does this happen?) I came across it again within twenty-four hours. ‘Happiness writes white,’ he said. ‘When I am content, I have no inspiration. Ease causes the muse to fly.’ I didn’t want to believe it, that one needs to be tortured in order to … Continue reading Happiness Writes White

A Terrible Beauty

August 13, 2020August 13, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ Leave a comment

At first, I thought it was nighttime roadworks. Or an ambulance pulled in by the side of the street, its lights flashing. Largely, I’d pushed the flickering to the back of my mind, dismissing it as some sort of strobe lighting outside. That was until I heard the BOOM! Then I knew it was the … Continue reading A Terrible Beauty

Time and Tide

June 30, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ Leave a comment

Come on, seriously? July? Tomorrow? How did that happen? I know we all remark upon it constantly: how quickly the time goes, that it flies, disappears, but this year it really slipperdy-jippeted as the calendar dates danced away from me. I love a calendar. I love the ritual turning of twelve pages and plotting what … Continue reading Time and Tide

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I hope my online Edinburgh Press will, in time, hold a similar collection in words to that which is in my Edinburgh Press at home.  I will add to it as often as I can building a collection of memories and observations bubbling up from below, breaking the surface of my mind. I’ll send them out into the world where you can, if you want, share them. Welcome to My Edinburgh Press.

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  • Imaginary Friends February 21, 2021
  • Ketchup February 14, 2021
  • Thick Snow Everywhere February 10, 2021
  • Edinburgh City Walk February 6, 2021
  • The Rising of the Light January 30, 2021
  • Some Things I Miss January 23, 2021
  • Things Are Bound to be Improving January 18, 2021
  • Mind Yourself January 10, 2021
  • Are You In A Bumble? January 6, 2021
  • That Was The Year That Was December 29, 2020
  • Pity Mice Implicitly December 24, 2020
  • Thanks for the Memory December 20, 2020
  • The Courage to Say No December 13, 2020
  • I Haven’t Made Up My Mind December 6, 2020
  • Here and Now November 29, 2020
  • Navigating the Doldrums November 21, 2020
  • Old and Wise November 15, 2020
  • Giving Out November 7, 2020
  • The Street Where I Live October 30, 2020
  • Accentuate The Positive October 24, 2020
  • How To Turn an Adult Into a Child October 18, 2020
  • Doing What Doesn’t Come Naturally October 10, 2020
  • Knowing Nothing October 4, 2020
  • Pay Attention to the Open Sky September 30, 2020
  • How Romantic September 23, 2020

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  • Imaginary Friends February 21, 2021
  • Ketchup February 14, 2021
  • Thick Snow Everywhere February 10, 2021
  • Edinburgh City Walk February 6, 2021
  • The Rising of the Light January 30, 2021
  • Some Things I Miss January 23, 2021
  • Things Are Bound to be Improving January 18, 2021
  • Mind Yourself January 10, 2021

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