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Sep 1st, 2023

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Another dish from La Cuisine de R

Another nice simple one from R. Fajita rice from store cupboard and fridge ingredients. Fry a large onion with a green pepper until soft. Add three cloves chopped garlic, a finely chopped red chili, a packet of fajita seasoning and a tin of sweetcorn. Fry for one minute. Rinse 300g of white rice, add to […]

Aug 31st, 2023

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Apple pies…

I made a few apple related deserts today because all four trees are now loaded. I have to say that I am not particularly keen on apples, but our victoria plum tree which I was fond of has given up the ghost, and our cherry tree never has any eatable fruit because the birds always […]

Aug 29th, 2023

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Spectacular sunset

Lovely sunset over Bheula tonight. It is very hot down south, so hopefully it will cool down before we go off to London.

Aug 24th, 2023

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Cloudy skies

Today was one of those “Goily” days where the sun comes and goes. Our solar production can literally go from 12kw to 0.5 within the space of 2 minutes. Having said this, we are doing pretty well with the solar in general – we have produced more electricity in total than we have used since […]

Aug 17th, 2023

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Chili peppers

These were ready for harvest today. I have been nurturing them for months now, and in the end I got about ten chilis off them. This was growing them indoors under grow lights (outdoors they never even flowered), so sadly they are not worth the trouble of growing here. Over to ASDA for our future […]

Aug 12th, 2023

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New sign

The sign on our spare room used to say “Roddy’s Room” (ok – I have to admit that this is our friend J’s real name). However, we thought Saphy used it more than he did (this is a hint that he hasn’t been over to stay recently), so I renamed it. I also put a […]

Aug 6th, 2023

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Visit to Glasgow

It’s been a while since I went to the big city. With one thing and another, nearly four years in fact. So considering we have a holiday in London booked for Sept, I thought I had better get some practice in by going to Glasgow first. It was J’s birthday on 6th so we made […]

Aug 5th, 2023

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Which way up?

Part of this is the hillside, and part is its reflected image in the loch. But the question is – which way up does the picture go? I have never seen the loch as completely mirror-like as it was today.

Aug 1st, 2023

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R’s Totem Pole

This is R’s Totem pole (it is literally a curtain pole in his office). The “scalps” adorning it are the speaker’s lanyards he has acquired from all the conferences he has given talks at for the last ten years or so. He is (rightly) very proud of it – but to me there is something […]

Jul 25th, 2023

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Lucky again

We have christened a little black and white cat which keeps visiting us “Lucky”. She first started coming regularly a couple of months ago, and at first she was so timid that we couldn’t get to within 50m of her. But we have partially “tamed” her, and she will now come into the hall for […]