Did I Miss a Moment of Change?

Today is the Scottish Election - a day that I would usually be anticipating and excited for… but this time around it just seems a bit flat. There is no hope in the air for a radical progression, for a new chapter… for a new story even. It feels rubbish.

Everything feels a bit like a failure today to be fair. The weather is challenging. Lightroom, my main image processing system, has fallen over and needs a database rebuild (again) which it is currently performing so my one small job for today, which should have been finished and submitted hours ago, is still sitting untouched whilst the computer get’s its shit together. I have a headache from trying to fix said computer glitch too. It’s RNLI training tonight, and I need to go as I haven’t been in a few weeks, but I really just want to go to bed, wake up tomorrow… see the news as it comes in regarding whatever nonsense has transpired today (I dread the incursion of the far right into Scottish Politics) and hopefully get on with the last day of the working week… and then sleep… sleep the sleep of the dead. That is my plan for the weekend.

Anyway, at least I have booked in our iron filter repairs for the water system, a bit of peace of mind that it isn’t going to fail in a hugely expensive way, just a pricey bit of preventative maintenance it is for now.

We are expecing new neighbours today, I think. But nobody has appeared next door as yet so I am starting to think they are delayed - maybe they will be here at the weekend? I think their furniture is not appearing until next week so perhaps they have decided against camping out in the house! It’s way too cold for that at the moment, spring seems to have taken a bit of a break and dropped us back into something more wintery!

7th May 2026