Remade

Bearded Scotsman 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Just a man and his dog 🐶

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Hello everyone 👋

I’ve been rather radio silent on here the last month or so. I guess I haven’t had a lot to say or get out of my head, but it’s been a busy few weeks!

I got back from two weeks in the US today, following Scotland round for the World Cup. Football wasn’t great but what an experience. We ticked off Boston, New York, Miami, and took a trip down the Florida Keys to Key West.

Loved every minute. The hospitality shown to the tens of thousands of Scots that made the trip over was amazing, particularly in Boston where we fell in love with the city and people, and them us.

Miami was SO hot but I loved Fort Lauderdale. I am burnt to hell right now though.

New York was a super short visit but was a lot…I got scammed of $80 within 5 mins of me stepping off the coach by a guy raising money for a kids ‘charity’. When I agreed to donate I got surrounded and rushed by about 6 other guys all trying to get my phone and tap my contactless. Then got called racist when I told them no…it wasn’t a great start…but it picked up and we had a good time in the one day we spent there.

Key West was lovely, had such a nice laid back feel and I had the best Key Lime Pie I’ve ever tasted!

Aside from the World Cup we’re also moving! We viewed a few places in May and put an offer down on a nice 3 bed apartment with a private garden that was accepted. Just waiting on the tenancy agreement and then we move likely July!

Work has been a nightmare so nothing new there then. But I am thinking it’s time to maybe see what else is out there. Seeing lots of companies in my field paying £20k-£30k a year more than what I earn right now for the same job. We’ve got a wedding to pay for, increasingly likely IVF to pay for….I think I need to take the money and move.

I’m sure there’s other things but I won’t bore you.

Hope you’re all doing good! ❤️

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Not remotely built for sun.

Fucking ouch.

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The happiest boy 🐶

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Watched the final episode of Outlander tonight, the end of an era!

I was in my final year of uni when the first season came out. I loved that there was a show that was set in Scotland that actually did Scotland justice.

The tourism Outlander has brought to Scotland has been enormous! It became such a cultural phenomenon and I loved seeing the filming locations that were so familiar.

There’s a big Scottish void now.

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Following on from my nephew being beaten up on the school bus a couple weeks ago, the boy who did it was charged with assault and suspended from school.

Turns out it’s still been happening every day for the last couple of weeks by this boys friends where today they pinned him down on the bus and took his trousers and underwear off.

Utterly fucking disgusting! I’m raging. Absolutely raging!

My sister called the police today who said they’d come to the house to take a statement and never showed up.

They’re making his life an absolute misery and it has to stop.

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It’s the council elections on Thursday and I have zero clue who to vote for. I believe the right to vote is an important right and one everyone should use. It’s a freedom that people in other parts of the world die for.

But I have zero trust or faith in any of them now. It’s all just noise to me now. All I know is I don’t want Reform, Restore or the Tories. But I also have no desire for any of the others.

It’s also the Scottish Parliament elections on Thursday. It’s a given I think that the SNP will win fairly conclusively, but the fact Reform are well on course to being the official opposition in Scotland is pretty scary.

I’ve got no motivation for politics anymore.

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My nephew got beaten up on the way home from school today by a bunch of kids which was filmed and posted online.

This is the second time this has happened in the last year or two. Apparently this time they lured him to the back of the school bus where they punched and kicked him.

Kids are so fucking cruel. Especially to other kids who have things like Autism like my nephew does.

I’ve seen the video, my blood is boiling.

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Signed up for next years London Marathon because I’m stupid like that.

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I understand your reaction about this friend of your brothers. But people grieve in different ways and this is how she’s dealing with it. I wouldn’t sweat it - can’t really control what she does anyway amirite?

I take your point, anon. She cared for him, is grieving, and that’s all okay. I wouldn’t take that away from her.

But things like posthumously entering him into the London Marathon without having spoken to his family first impacts our grief. No one gets to own grief, but there are boundaries.

If she’d told us prior that she wanted to do this we’d probably have said okay. It’s blindsiding us with it though when this week is already a sensitive one as it was his birthday a couple of days ago.

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When my brother was alive he had a pen pal we found out who lives in Bournemouth called Becci. We found out after finding a letter in his flat from her. My sister managed to track her down on Facebook and told her at the time about his passing.

I never really understood their relationship if I’m honest. She’s married with kids, not that would mean they couldn’t be friends of course, I count many people I’ve met on here as friends, but when he died she started finding people in our family and adding them on social media. People who have zero clue who she is. She sends me messages now and again saying how she misses him and saying things about he’d have loved this and that etc. Like for example she bought herself the football strip for the team me and my brother support because he supported them.

She clearly cared for him, and that’s okay. Who am I to say she couldn’t. But, I don’t know her, and I just find it a bit peculiar sometimes. Like how much she tries to attach herself to my family and our grief. She asked for my sister and her kids birthdays not long ago and I was like…why?

Anyway, it’s the London Marathon tomorrow. And she’s taken it upon herself to have someone who’s running for mental health awareness, wear my brothers name along with hundreds of others on their kit. She sent it to me and my sister today and has it all over her instagram and we’re both quite unhappy about it.

Like, it’s a lovely thing to have done. But I feel like that is something she should have spoken with us about prior. I’m actually going to the marathon tomorrow to support a friend, and my brothers name being out there involved in it was not something I was expecting and I feel very weird about it.

I’ve wondered if I’m just being silly but it doesn’t sit right with me. Symbolically it’s a big thing and something we should have been consulted about.

It’s also unsettling to be just scrolling social media and then be hit with my brothers name and picture out of nowhere being shared unexpectedly.

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We went to see Project Hail Mary tonight. For the first 45 mins I couldn’t see what the hype was at all.

By the end of it I had cried three times! Loved it!

The night ended on a sour note however. We popped into McDonald’s to grab some shit food on the way home. There was a gay couple getting homophobic abuse by a bunch of lads. I couldn’t sit by and listen to it so stepped in as the staff were doing nothing. We got into some verbals which isn’t my thing but the stupid little cunts pardon my french needed brought down a peg.

By the time they decided to kick them out another group of guys got involved and man handled them out of the building not before I copped a few insults my way lol

Eventful start to the weekend.

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We’re moving into a new office at work and they’re trying to get people to be more office based going forward.

So they’ve announced anyone who completes 30 days in office between May and July will get a £1500 bonus in August.

I already do 3 days a week out of choice so I’m basically getting free money to do what I’m already doing.

Result!

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We got absolutely splattered at football tonight.

One of the guys was screaming, barking orders as if he was the captain of a premier league team.

Mate, it’s a 5 a side kick about after work…calm down lol

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I have football in just under an hour and I don’t think my legs and back have recovered from last weeks game.

I’m not built for movement anymore.

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On a forever bulk

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Walking like I’ve shit myself today after last nights football.

The legs aren’t there anymore, I actually can’t keep up with the young lads on the team.

Mid life crisis incoming lol

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Played in my first football match tonight in over 13 years and got man of the match!

What shocked me was that the last time I played football I was one of the younger ones on the team. Tonight I was the oldest by at least 10 years…in footballing terms I’m at retirement age…first time I’ve actually felt old 😅