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Cough to 5k: on being ill and wanting to run again

by Simon Ritchie • 8 February 2025
Winter bugs have stopped me running and it's pissing me off.

Making peace with the past

by Simon Ritchie • 18 October 2022
The story of the Peeblesshire witchcraft trials and the successful campaign to commemorate the victims

When is a moment not a moment?

by Simon Ritchie • 3 March 2022
On the importance of being present and recording experiences with your mind's eye

A Christmas Eve Nightmare: Peebles, 1629

by Simon Ritchie • 23 December 2021
The horrifying story of the Peeblesshire witch trials of 1629

Why the end of summer fills me with dread

by Simon Ritchie • 17 September 2021
What Seasonal Affective Disorder feels like for me, and how I cope in the dark winter months

Here's to the NHS

by Simon Ritchie • 6 June 2021
On my experience of being vaccinated against Covid-19 by my own mother

Withdrawing from Erasmus is a travesty for poorer kids

by Simon Ritchie • 29 December 2020
Erasmus was never a "gap year for middle class kids". It was a life changing experience for me, a young Scot from a rural, working class background

How the pandemic has made rural life more appealing than ever

by Simon Ritchie • 11 October 2020
On the benefits of living in small town Scotland in the midst of a global pandemic
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