Welcome to my Blog. My name is Neil and I have been living in Milton Keynes UK since the 4th August 2026.
I lived in the Armenia, Latvia and China.
I am a teacher of Geography and English.
I am married to Lena who is my soulmate and best friend.We also have a son Robert.
As you can tell from the Blog's name I am Scottish although I was born in London.
My Blog will be for sharing my thoughts on anything that takes my fancy. Please feel free to comment.
Robert decided to emulate his Mama and Papa and write his own dream list. Here it is.
1. To see a volcano erupt.
2. To design and build the tallest building in the world.
3. To find a complete dinosaur skeleton.
4. To have a great future.
5. To have his own business.
6. To go around the world.
7. To have a good wife and 2 kids.
8. To have a house in a volcano.
9. That my parents will live forever.
10. To have a very good job.
11. To have $100,000 when I am 14.
12. To be famous.
13. To be good at football.
14. To have a very good friend.
15. To have a dog or a cat.
16. To have a sister.
17. To have a car.
18. To have never-ending lemons.
19. To be healthy.
20. To be strong.
21. To have an X-Box.
22. To have a kids motorbike.
23. To have police station or fire station Lego.
24. To have a drawing I-pad.
25. To have an electric scooter.
26. To meet Gordon Ramsay.
27. To have a radio controlled boat.
28. To have an electric dragon.
29. To have remote control for everything in the house.
30. To be good at spelling.
31. To be good at mathematics
32. To improve my writing.
33. To have a garden.
34. To have some Action figures.
35. To have a trampolene.
36. To get some more games on my i-pad.
37. To be a good reader.
38. To have a really cool train set.
39. To have a nice long sleep.
40. To build a house out of bedding materials.
41. To have a bike
42. To have a Pilot's licence.
43. To have 100 animals.
44. To be a better swimmer.
45. To make Covid-19 go away.
46. To have a girlfriend.
47. To visit a museum of planes.
48. To go to university.
49. To be a good runner.
50. To be smart.
Robert came up with these dreams all by himself with no help from us. Please comment and give him all the encouragement you can to help him make his dreams come true.
Here is Robert's latest piece of writing. Its about his Summer Camp adventures. Enjoy!
My Summer camp
On the first day I went to the camp. When we arrived in the village we played a name game and a guessing game. I enjoyed the activities and enjoyed meeting new people.
On the second day, we went to a church and meditated. There was a puppy near the church and it came with us as we climbed a beautiful mountain.
We also looked at bee hives in the forest and I got stung by a bee. OUCH!!
On the third day we meditated again and we were shown how to make Armenian pasta. We played football with some children from the village. The puppy saw us and ran away. Later for dinner we ate the pasta we had made.
On the fourth day we visited an old church that had fallen down and we had to imagine what it would have looked like before it fell down.
Later we milked some cows and made Matsun (yogurt). It was cool milking the cows.
On the fifth day we made our own baskets from sticks we found in the forest. Later we had a barbeque with a camp fire. We stayed up late and the stars in the sky were very bright.
On the last day we came home after making bow and arrows. I was happy to come home. I would like to go again. I made sime good friends.
Today we went to Lake Sevan to see the natural beauty of our adopted homeland.
The weather was beautiful and the beach we wanted to go to was closed. In fact it was so closed they had dug a huge hole in the road to stop cars from getting there.
The alternate beach was hardly the white sandy paradise we had imagined but Robert at least got a bit of a swim.
We visited another Armenian Monastary and admired the amazing views of the lake.
We also visited a graveyard near Sevan where there were thousands of Armenian Kachkar's. There were also gravestones which traditionally tell people a bit about the person buried below. This includes carved pictures of their job, hobbies (wine seemed a common hobby) and in some cases how the person died.
To round off the events we visited a Sevan cheese farm and tried some amazing cheese and wine.
On the way back to Yerevan there was heavy traffic. The police were testing drivers to see if they had been drinking. Our driver wasn't tested and he told us they only test the drivers of expensive cars because only they can afford to pay the fine.
