Our Life in Scotland
Is our collection of life-stories from the west coast of Scotland
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Never too old for a magical surprise!
Adorable lady receives amazing Christmas Surprise! See the surprise on her face as she Santa leaves her something special. Imagine being advanced in years and still able to be surprised! Never too old for a magical surprise! Imagine coming downstairs on Christmas morning to open your presents. You believe that all Santa left you is…
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Unwell! Gritting it out when…
Unwell! Gritting it out when. Can I begin by first saying “I HATE BEING ILL, UNWELL OR ANYTHING LESS THAN MY NORMAL SELF!” I hate everything about sickness. Having lived with colitis since I was 15, I have tried very hard to achieve and maintain a level of health which allows me to live a…
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Why oh I why, did I choose to write?
Why oh I why, did I choose to write? I got up this morning as I usually do only this morning, something was different. I had to write. Hi there, and how are you on this fine day? It wasn’t that my sore throat had morphed into a head cold, which was more snotty and…
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Hope isn’t just for Christmas…It’s for life!
Another year over…that’s how the popular Christmas song goes. And we’re nearly there again! Entering, as we are now, into the month of December, we begin to take stock of the year that has been and prepare for the holiday celebrations that close the year off. But for many people, Christmas is about so much…
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A gift of love this Christmas
If you were to be asked what the true meaning of Christmas was, what would you say? Family? Food? Presents? Charity? Giving? Or maybe love? Love is possibly the word that would most often be used to describe Christmas. Love pretty much covers all the bases with the aforementioned meanings. We love many things that…
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How to embrace true and lasting peace from the Christmas Story
It’s one of those words that gets aired at Christmas time. Peace. Peace on earth and goodwill to all men. It’s certainly something that we are reminded of each year. But do we ever actually embrace true peace? Does it ever last? The Christmas Story is of course the reason we talk about peace at…
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Joy to the world! How we can experience that Joy.
One of the best-known Christmas carols is of course Joy to the world. It describes all the ways that Christmas brought joy into the world through the Christ child. But what does joy mean for us today? It’s a word that is often mistaken for its weaker counterpart happiness, a feeling that many of us…
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Random acts of kindness: how to make them a daily priority
It’s January. The start of a new year. How’s yours going so far? Has it been busy? A struggle to get going? Or has it been positive and encouraging? We are all different with our own situations so it’s possibly been a mixture of the above. My year has started not too badly. A mixed…
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Kaizen: how to grow 1% every day
How are you today? Good? Bad? Tired? Lost? Inspired? We are so many things in life at different times that we can feel stuck. Sometimes we’re up, other times we’re down and it can feel almost impossible to get anywhere in life. We long to find some sort of stability whereby we can progress, pursue…
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