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june vignettes for wee monkey

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 staying at isle of glencoe hotel, driving up to fort william, as part of belated birthday mayhem, we did the harry potter train!  beautiful and full of midges. youch. scratch. blood. and the jacobite, which goes through amazing viaduct, better known as 'harry potter' bridge. it connects fort william-mallaig.  beautiful clear daytime with fish/chips lunch. weather turned crap as soon as we returned to f. william... http://www.westcoastrailways.co.uk/jacobite/Jacobite_Details.html  deceptive beds?  chinley-edale walk, solo sojourn.   chinley churn-south head-jacob's ladder-edale. was wet. kinda lost. but did successfully finished it. was much nicer to do it with minnow a week later.  ethnic food is at premium price. making chinese potstickers at home, with homemade hot-water-dough skins!  short walkie to back of the house. typical monkey mindset during summer. snooze.  i kid you not. professional o

exceptional day in ordinary monkey yearly circuitry

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this year, i ended up having a slightly different birthday.  mom mentioned that i am rarely in yyz on my birthday and i automatically said: no way! yet, the calendar said... well, she's right! so i have decided to stay and spend the b day with fam then fly over to uk to have the self-designated unemployment summer holiday with minnow (which is slightly frustrating to politely refuse interesting work, thanks to government work restrictions)(but then, why should i be special? these international commercial regulations are complicated and often inflexible and i can only hope that there are good reasons for it). i suppose with everyone being busy at that time of the year- school has finished and people moved back to home/summer locations, etc., i myself was away from home, attending various festivals and music programs, or even just randomly travelling.  it's been almost ten years since i spent my last birthday in toronto.  how time flies- where did those years go? i scarcely