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My Sparkly Christmas

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Another poem from the hard drive.  A little more festive, this one was written for a church competition.  It won. My Sparkly Christmas A poem by Kirsty Brown It sparkles in the daylight It sparkles in the night It’s everywhere I look around It’s even on the ground My favourite is the silver But there’s other colours too Gold, purple, red or blue Multicoloured, what’s for you? In class we use it everyday When Christmas comes around The green’s a tree, a shiny blue sky And there’s silver sparkly snow! I find it on my trousers My coat, my shoes-my … Continue reading My Sparkly Christmas

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Bound

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So I just plugged my external hard drive into my shiny new computer for the first time, and clicked on a folder titled ‘IMPORTANT STUFF’.  This hard drive, I should warn you, is mainly home to photos, videos and documents from my first laptop purchased circa 2007.  I replaced it in 2011 when I returned to college, because commuting with a 17″ laptop is not really practical.  Anyway, the first thing in my IMPORTANT STUFF folder was this poem I wrote about Fyvie Castle’s library in sixth year. Here it is, exactly the same way it was submitted in 2008.   … Continue reading Bound

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All For One & One For All.

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Always remember that you are not better than anybody else. Maybe you are older than them.  Maybe you have more experience than them.  Maybe you have children.  Maybe you are divorced.  Maybe you are married.  Maybe you are promoted.  Maybe you have a career.  Maybe you have a title.  Maybe you’ve worked hard your entire life.  Maybe you’ve never had to work a day in your entire life.  Maybe you inherited millions.  Maybe you built your empire.  Maybe you’ve overcome a terrible illness. Maybe you’ve won an award.  Maybe you have a hundred friends.  Maybe you’ve adopted, or fostered.  Maybe … Continue reading All For One & One For All.

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Storytime!

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It is weird to feel that I have done so much writing recently, and yet none of it has been on here.  I’ve had this story kicking about in my head since last July, and over the months it has turned into a ridiculous amount of scribbles on various pieces of scrap paper.  Fed up of constantly losing, then finding, then re-losing these pieces of paper I decided to actually put some physical structure to this story.  So now that it has actually started to take shape in the English language (as opposed to scrawlings that only I could decipher), … Continue reading Storytime!

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(Not) For Sale

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So last night I was just scrolling through Twitter when a tweet caught my eye.  It was a link to a news story which I haven’t read, but the headline described a female politician wanting to outlaw the selling of sex.  Now, my first thought was that they didn’t need to name the politician for it to be obvious that it was a female trying to get this law put in place. I’m incredibly judgemental, feel free to judge me back.  Something about this headline bothered me, and was still bothering me when I woke up this morning.  I know … Continue reading (Not) For Sale

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Inspiragram

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Yes it is April, and yes I do now realise that I haven’t actually published anything yet this year and yes I do think this is shocking and yes I am sorry. Wow, so much yes. I’ve not come back to complain, or to rant or to persuade. I’m not here to review. I’ve returned to share with you something very special which I have discovered- new role models. (How’s that for an anticlimax?) I was anti-Instagram prior to buying my Hudl, and then in a moment of madness (something to which I am prone it would appear) I decided … Continue reading Inspiragram

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A Blog of Thanksgiving!

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I’m going to come clean- the reason that I haven’t written recently is because life has been a little…strange…this past few weeks.  I’m not going to divulge why and I’m also not going to divulge the number of times that I have started writing and not finished because I just can’t. This blog post is my own personal thanksgiving for all of the sucky things in my life. (I’m Scottish and probably don’t fully understand the concept of thanksgiving so bear with me!) I don’t think that there is any proper way to start this so I’m just going to … Continue reading A Blog of Thanksgiving!

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Review: Hudl

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Okay, so I’m not in the habit of reviewing actual, physical objects, but I’m going to give it a bash.  My intentions are to use this blog post to tell you a little bit about the Hudl. WHAT IS A HUDL? The Hudl is Tesco’s attempt at paving it’s way into the gadget market by focussing on the tech of the moment – the tablet.  Not, like, an actual medical tablet, but an electronic one.  Like an iPad, but instead of being made by Apple it was made by Tesco. HUDL…THAT’S AN ACRONYM RIGHT? I’m afraid it’s not.  Having worked … Continue reading Review: Hudl

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Mexico City Is Wonderland.

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Welcome to the first ever blog post from my sexy new computer!  It’s so shiny and new *strokes* ANYWAY, hi there. DO YOU KNOW WHERE I’VE BEEN? In July I made the wee journey over to big bad Mexico for a fortnight.  Whilst there I was fortunate enough to stay in the centre of Mexico City (capital of Mexico) for nearly a week (split in two by my visit to Our Cabana, but that is unimportant right now), and I thought that I would share some of my observations with you all. Mexico City is beautiful as long as you … Continue reading Mexico City Is Wonderland.

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If Straight Were Gay

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Okay, so this video is nearly 20 minutes long but I think it’s well worth the time.  Regardless of your thoughts on homosexuality, or in fact any sexuality that is not heterosexuality, I think you need to watch this and think hard about the message behind it. What if a normal family had two Mums and no Dad, or two Dads and no Mum?  What if your family were strongly HETEROphobic? What if a loved up couple naturally conceiving a baby was unnatural? These are questions which you never really ask yourself…because you’ve never had to.  In fact, apparently heterophobic isn’t … Continue reading If Straight Were Gay