by Lin Grahame | Sep 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
Arthritis blog 12th September 2023 August seemed to fly by and suddenly it is September. It has been the most glorious Indian summer in Scotland with temperatures well up to 24 or 25 degrees centigrade. There have been some lovely clear calm mornings for me...
by Lin Grahame | Jul 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
SWALLOWS Flying home To the sun’s yellow light To feel it’s easing warmth To hear again the Spanish voices, And savour lilts of the language Remembered. To bath in the sea And not feel a chill, Or the need to cover up quickly. To feel the warm air...
by Lin Grahame | Jul 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
2/7/2023 L’ Hirondelle (The Swallow) I returned from three weeks in Spain on Tuesday 27th of June. The weather in Spain was very warm 28-30degrees centigrade every day. I bathed in the warm calm water of the Mar Menor every day and became used to the...
by Lin Grahame | Jul 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
Yes we have summer sun still although it is for us in Edinburgh, interspersed with heavy rain and winds. I had three glorious weeks in my happy place Los Alcazares in Murcia Spain. Temperature there in late May/early June were reaching 30degrees. For me this means...
by Lin Grahame | Apr 20, 2023 | Uncategorized
Lightness of Spirit ‘April is the cruellest month ‘ T.S. Eliot. The Waste Land Yes because for me April seems to tease with a hint of warmer days and then return to the cold and dampness we have come to know of winter and early Spring. I am no doubt biased...
by Lin Grahame | Apr 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
How to write a blog – just start where you are the voice said. Well today I am ok! Should I say more? After a long movement session, which was new to me, on Monday, my arthritic knees felt weak and sore. On Saturday, Sunday and Monday my joints felt good so...
by Lin Grahame | Apr 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
Down on the beach a lone camel stands. The seat on his back is empty. At his master’s voice he bends his knees, and sits patiently waiting. His head turned to the surf and the wind.
by Lin Grahame | Apr 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
Scooters and bikes and all the likes. Tuk tuk taxis and motos with carts. Donkeys and barrows and even a horse! In the narrowest streets I have known. Horns hoot and engines roar, Donkeys bay with the constant beat of the heart inside the medina. The Muezzins’ call...
by Lin Grahame | Apr 4, 2023 | Uncategorized
69 summers is a journal, a memoire, a travelogue, and more. I had the idea as I travelled in Spain last year. 2022 was actually my 70th year, my birthday being this year 2023! Because if my reluctance or resistance to publish my writing, I am writing here some...
by Lin Grahame | Jan 31, 2022 | Uncategorized
I have had neck and shoulder pain and stiffness for the last four or five weeks. My jaw has clicked for many years but is not sore. But, moving my jaw back and forward and side to side along with neck stretches seems to help my neck pain. Of course they are linked...
