I had a rather upsetting day on Friday. R was away at his conference in Dublin (in the car). Tora went out about 7am perfectly fine, and came back an hour later in a state of some distress. Specifically, his tail which is usually curly (it’s about the only way you can tell him from […]
Well we ate the pie that I had made as a reserve Christmas dinner in case we got a power cut on the day. It certainly looked magnificent surrounded by various different salads. However inside it was sadly very dry and crumbly to the extent that it started breaking up when I cut into it. […]
Beautiful weather yesterday and I took a couple of photos on my way back from my (solitary) walk. There was a thin crescent moon hanging over the Steeple. Then just as I was nearly back at the house I noticed the trails of two jets across the clear blue sky. Fantastic – but today it […]
I’ve been sitting looking at the weather today trying to decide whether to go for a walk or not (R is away at a conference). Every time it looks nice and I decide to go out, it suddenly deteriorates and is pouring with rain five minutes later. I eventually went out to walk round the […]
Just got back from my parents’ house where we had a very nice New Year (apart from the horrible hangover I had on the morning of Jan 1st after badly mixing my drinks on New Year’s Eve). It was bitterly cold driving back today, but there were spectacular views over Loch Ken and then the […]
When we got up this morning (unusually late for us as it is currently so dark in the mornings) there was no sign of Schrodi. Our estimate was that he had been out since about 5am – which was at least four hours and very unusual in the middle of winter. So we went out […]
Once again my brother N surpassed himself on Christmas Eve. Last year he made a tapas feast – this year he had a Mexican theme. We were met with tequila and then donned our sombreros. I have been strictly forbidden to put any pictures of us in the sombreros on the Internet – so here […]
This is my all time favourite Christmas picture of the cats “assisting” with unwrapping the presents. They also helped a bit yesterday and Schrodi decided on a new place to sleep – on a cardboard box neatly positioned between two cat beds. Merry Christmas everyone!
This was the field next to our house during a frosty spell last year – complete with snow covered mountains in the background.
I made this Christmas Pie yesterday – it is Paul Hollywood’s “Leftovers Pie” which is supposed to be for using up any leftover turkey, stuffing, sausages etc. This was done in advance though because I am very concerned about storm Barbara which is supposed to hit us over the festive period – and specifically about […]
