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About gaelharrison

I am married to John, and we are back living in Fife in Scotland. I have three grown up kids. Geraldine, who is married to Cathal and they have two children, Darcey and Dillon, Natasha who is married to Leo and they have Bonnie and Hazel and they all live in Wales, and Nick. Travel has been a big part of my life, especially in the last seventeen years, but now I just love being back in the 'bonny land'.

Witches’ Brews

Posted on September 7, 2014 by gaelharrison

I’m alone again, as John has gone back to Doha to do a handover, so I have a minute to catch my breath before he is home and we are off cycling and marching all over the place. I did … Continue reading →

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Arty Farty!

Posted on August 23, 2014 by gaelharrison

What is ART? According to a Google search it is ‘the human effort to imitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature’, and ‘it is the conscious production of arrangement of sounds, colours, forms, movements’. It has been with … Continue reading →

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Home Sweet Home

Posted on August 17, 2014 by gaelharrison

At last, I am sitting calmly looking out of the window and seeing the orange montbretia lighting up the flower border. In Glenelg I always thought of it as the herald of autumn, for it comes along with the ripe … Continue reading →

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Cyprus in summer

Posted on August 3, 2014 by gaelharrison

We are just back from a week in Cyprus, and now the apartment here in Doha is sadly bereft. So much is packed or has been taken away already and there is a hollow echoing feel to it. I have … Continue reading →

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Tidying up

Posted on July 22, 2014 by gaelharrison

I am at a loss. All my sewing projects are finished, I have packed up what material I want to keep and have thrown away all the scraps and now the room is empty, except for all the bobbins and … Continue reading →

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A little dental musing

Posted on June 24, 2014 by gaelharrison

‘I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.’ (Oberon in Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare) I’ve been thinking a lot … Continue reading →

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Clever Ladies

Posted on June 13, 2014 by gaelharrison

John is getting quite cavalier, and his response to everything is ‘Who gives a monkeys?’ I was nagging him to clean up ‘his slum’ as we were having friends round for dinner last week, and the shelf by the door … Continue reading →

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To see a world in a grain of sand

Posted on May 27, 2014 by gaelharrison

What a week – dominated by ‘Dr Roberto from Spain’ who specialises in root canals. He kindly inflicted four on me, with one more looming ahead. He gouged out all the previous errors made over the years, even finding a … Continue reading →

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Borneo Adventure – Sabah (Part 2)

Posted on May 5, 2014 by gaelharrison

Sabah – The Land Below The Wind Sabah is the northern state of the island of Borneo, and ancient mariners sailing in the surrounding waters once described all the lands south of the typhoon belt as the “land below the … Continue reading →

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Borneo Adventure – Sarawak (Part 1)

Posted on May 5, 2014 by gaelharrison

Borneo Adventure – Sarawak On 17th April we hurtled through the sky, leaving behind the hotness and dryness and aesthetic purity of the award-winning skyscrapers of Doha, and landed in Kuala Lumpur where we were at once engulfed in steam … Continue reading →

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