Morag Orchard

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  1. Shooting things

    16th September 2004 | Comments (28)

    …my wish list was topped with: (1) New Machine Gun, (2) Actual Working Bazooka, (3) Real Hand-Grenades; and granted I once got my mother to dye all my underwear camo-green, but I tell you, I’m not a gun nut. And you know why I’m not a gun nut? Because at the…

  2. Swallows and Frogs

    5th August 2004 | Comments (23)

    …best. Hopefully you’ll get some idea of what a Swallow looks like (if you don’t know already). A bit later on Mum came and asked if I wanted to photograph a frog that was hiding in her courgette plants. She held back the leaves so I could get a clear…

  3. Sour crop

    16th April 2004 | Comments (22)

    …of being marked down as a looney, but we’ll put that aside for the moment.) Fear not, help is at hand Luckily for you my mother has a cure for Sour Crop. First she grabs you (this isn’t hard because you’re just lying there burping), then she sticks a…

  4. Web of the Day

    23rd March 2004 | Comments (18)

    …Feedster is to blogs what Google is to Web sites, says the Wall Street Journal. Dad Oh. Well, well done. Walks off to find Mum… Morag, Dunstan is the ‘Web of the Day’ on the ‘Google of the Internet’,…

  5. When I was…

    3rd March 2004 | Comments (40)

    …her of my speech. When I was nine, my brother caught me kissing the Scottish Widows lady on the TV screen. When I was ten, I took my mum’s best bucket and went fishing for newts at the local gravel pits. When Mum came looking for me, she found me walking back through a field…

  6. Who, where, how?

    16th January 2004 | Comments (7)

    …within my blog posts. Simply looking for ‘Mum’ or ‘Morag’ wouldn’t be enough to identify references to my Mother. I needed to have her full name in there somewhere, and I needed to be able to say “this string of letters refers to a…

  7. Tender is the night

    10th January 2004 | Comments (8)

    …meant for storing dead baby rabbits away from the dog. Maybe that happens so often it necessitates a special terracotta bell and mum just never mentioned it to me. Who knows. Well, now I know what it’s for — about ten minutes ago I worked it out and asked…

  8. Playdo people

    29th December 2003 | Comments (9)

    …people last night while his mum and dad and I were at the cinema watching Lord of The Rings. I understand he had some help with ‘Grandma’ (and possibly with ‘Grandad’), but ‘Uncle Dunstan’ was all his own work. He’s two and a half.

  9. A Gypsy blessing

    24th December 2003 | Comments (19)

    There was a knock at our front door today. Mum and I got there at the same time and when I opened it up an old tramp was standing in our porch waving a china mug at us. Can you make…

  10. Who and where

    17th December 2003 | Comments (7)

    …pages, using the ‘Meta searches’ menu options. For some examples of the people thing at its best, see searches on my Mum, my Grandad, and The Big Man. I’ll try and produce a full write up on this at a later date. In the meantime, any comments or…

  11. Googley woogley

    27th November 2003 | Comments (16)

    …more interested in our happiness than how we’re fairing in the rat race. But recently I’ve noticed a mercenary glint in my mother’s eye. It seems that whatever news I bring her — the completion of a challenging script; the news that my traffic here has…

  12. Worth the wait?

    19th November 2003 | Comments (1)

    …of the new ASDA store near my Gran’s house. Pah! you say. Who cares!? you cry. Well, I’ll tell you who cares — my mother. My mother, and every other person unlucky enough to have an elderly Scottish relative for whom the closing of the Old ASDA (and its…

  13. Various different

    26th October 2003 | Comments (1)

    One of my mother’s pet peeves has long been the phrase “various different”. It seems like needless repetition of the concept. But as…

  14. Dishwasher un-safe

    21st October 2003 | Comments (2)

    …I tell you this: these events are but gentle breezes compared to the hurricane that rages in the Orchard household: Unbelievably, my mother is challenging my father’s System For Loading The Dishwasher. I know, I know — I’ve tried to warn her that few…

  15. Pixar vs Claymation

    11th October 2003 | Comments (0)

    …in my hand and fighting off biplanes. Their Marvelling Equipment seems to be out of whack. The reason I bring all this up is that Mum and I watched Finding Nemo last night, and we were giggling at what G&G would think of it. To us, it was beautifully presented, had a…

  16. Hands off our milk jug

    24th September 2003 | Comments (1)

    I don’t remember much from my childhood — my very young childhood — but I do remember the day my mum cut her hair for the first time. It was shorter, it was different. I wouldn’t look at her for days. I don’t like…

  17. The good life

    23rd September 2003 | Comments (1)

    …eggs, beans, cabbage, carrots, courgettes, cucumber, lettuce, peas, potatoes, tomatoes, apples, cherries, gooseberries and pears; my mum has, or had, it all out there… I find there’s something wonderfully real and grounding about that. Anyway, I mention all…

  18. Throw off the bowlines

    6th September 2003 | Comments (0)

    Mum pointed out a quote by Mark Twain in today’s paper: Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you…

  19. Je suis retourné

    20th August 2003 | Comments (2)

    …Thill and Jo living there, I wouldn’t be hurrying back. Oh, and Jo cut my hair while we were there, so I now have a crew cut. My mother says I look like a criminal. She’s right, but it keeps my head cool.