another week offshore another glasgow night
Christ its been a long rotation this time. Two weeks out on the north sea and im climbing the walls by the end of it. Offshore work does that tae ye. All steel corridors and diesel and men packed tigh
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Christ its been a long rotation this time. Two weeks out on the north sea and im climbing the walls by the end of it. Offshore work does that tae ye. All steel corridors and diesel and men packed tigh
Back from six weeks North Sea. Brutal rotation this time. Rigs never change but the men do. New faces. Same old stories bout how hard we work how much we miss home. Truth is home for most of us is jus
Christ its good tae be back. Fourteen days on a North Sea platform and ur nerves are pure frayed. Wind battering the rig day an night. Twelve hour shifts. Constant noise. Then suddenly ur back in Glas
Two weeks on the rig. Cold North Sea. Wind battering metal walls. Nothing but work and sleep and radio chatter. Thirty men. Same faces. Same stories. Waiting to get back to land.Sarah knows the drill.
There's something surreal about walking from my university office into Edinburgh's shadowed streets, knowing precisely where I'm heading. My tweed jacket and reading glasses suggest one life. My desti
There's something profoundly liberating about stepping outside one's carefully constructed life. Academic colleagues see me as the measured historian, serious and somewhat austere. If they could see m
There's something almost academic about arranging these encounters. Not just the physical meeting, but the careful choreography beforehand. Emails exchanged with the precision of research corresponden
Just touched down in Glasgow after six weeks on the North Sea rigs. Money's burnin a hole right through my wallet and christ do I need some human contact after bein stuck with a bunch of roughnecks.Fi
There's something peculiar about being a widower in your fifties. The loneliness creeps in quietly, like Edinburgh fog rolling over Arthur's Seat. My academic colleagues would never understand. They s