2021 split in two

22 December 2021

Well hello you beautiful people of read. Are we ready for Christmas? I will be after tomorrow!

What a year 2021 has turned out to be. Here in Scotland, we started the year in a lockdown and here we are, about to end the year in another lockdown!

1st January 2021. Part of the traditional festive Scottish traditions was to go for a walk on Ne'er Day (News Year Day) and that is how I started 2021. A walk on our local beach in the bracing wind sure does blow the cobwebs away from the New Years' celebrations of the night before. I am lucky in that I live in Burntisland a seaside town in the Kingdom of Fife in Scotland, and this spot where I took the picture from happens to be only a five-minute walk from my front door.

25th January 2021. During the night I heard an almighty pop and bright flash coming from my kitchen. I got up and discovered that the socket where my halogen oven had been plugged in, had blown. It seemed rising damp had got into the electrics and caused all sorts of problems. I called the landlady and she eventually sent an electrician to repair the socket etc but would not reimburse for the oven.

However, it would turn out, that this was a blessing in disguise as you will find out later on in this article.

11th February 2021. Snow! Living on the coast we don't actually get much snow at all, and it is still exciting whenever it does snow. I don't know about you, but our worst winter weather seems to be from about mid January until mid February and this snowfall happened on the 10th February, two days later it was all gone.

This picture was taken in the park which was at the end of my street. You can see the traffic cone on top of the statue on the right of the picture, why do kids do this, it happens all over the UK.
The building in the picture is a burger joint and I would be ordering from them later in the year in picture 6.

15th May 2021. I am a massive bluenose. This means that I support the Rangers Football Club, a football team from Glasgow in Scotland. You might call football as soccer, but that is a debate not to be had here. Rangers have had a terrible time. Basically, we were relegated directly from the Top tier league all the way down to the fourth tier league and made up way back to the top via promotions.

Our arch-rivals Celtic meanwhile were going great guns as they had no competition and they were chasing a record ten league titles in a row. Rangers had other ideas and we went the whole season unbeaten and finished the last match beating Aberdeen 4-0 on 15th of May. The picture is of Wee Ger watching the match wearing his miniature scarf. Rangers fans get called many things, and Ger is a common name. He did enjoy himself but refrained from drinking any alcohol!

8th June 2021. I was brought up in Edinburgh and often go back for a visit. One of the perks of having to endure so many lockdowns and working so much from home during this pandemic is that I became addicted to YouTube. In particular, I fell in love with the thought of living on a canal narrowboat full time in England. There are so many vloggers showing us their lifestyle on the canals that I want to do this in 2022. I did know that there was a canal in Edinburgh, but did not know it was the original way of transporting goods between Edinburgh and Glasgow. This picture was taken very close to my old school and amazes me just how much the canals have been refurbished and is a thriving part of Edinburgh's charm now.

Being the bluenose that I am, I included this particular picture of a blue canal narrow boat from the many I took that day. When we say narrow it is because they are generally no more than 6 foot 10 inches wide.

This is part of a contest that I participated in at hive see the full post here

Don't forget tomorrow December 23rd is the last day for entry to #ChristmasChallenge2021

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