I’d been a bit bothered as to what would happen if our new visitor fox met the cats. Last night I found out from the webcam.. I’d put a bit of leftover roast pork out for the creatures, and just after 5am the fox found it. It was just starting to munch on it when […]
I marzipan’d (is that a word?) and iced the vegan cake. Home made marzipan by default has egg in it, but the shop bought stuff doesn’t and neither does ready to roll white icing (which is good because of course the traditional royal icing has egg whites in it). I had been going to collect […]
When the cats were young kittens they had their first Christmas in our town house in Edinburgh. As usual, we had a celebration trifle for our pudding on Christmas day, and as usual people were so stuffed after eating their turkey that there was loads left over. So my Mum put the whole bowl inside […]
Last year my Mum and I bought Christmas Jumpers. Mine was red and I wore it on Christmas Eve. My Mum’s was blue and (as is her wont) she bought it, didn’t like it on and didn’t wear it. So I inherited it and wore it several times last year until I put it away […]
I had to laugh today when the postcard I sent to J while he was here looking after the cats turned up. This was sent from the Orient Express three weeks ago and I had quite forgotten about it. They said it would be slow but this must take a prize. It has a nice […]
I made a vegan Christmas cake for my sister-in-law V last year and it did not turn out well (in fact that was the theme with all my Christmas cakes last year). I can’t remember what recipe I used, but it came from one of those rather dismal vegan sites which start off by soaking […]
I went for a walk around 4:30pm today just as the sun was going down over the snowy mountains. The sky colour was unreal – very spectacular.
Afraid that after the dried up disaster that was last year’s cake, I’ve given up on Delia’s recipe and have tried Mary Berry’s. It actually seems to have come out better, though again I cooked it for only 3.5 hours rather than the 4 she recommended, and it still seems slightly over done. Still I […]
R and I went to a wedding in Milton Keynes this weekend – one way and another it did not turn out too well from a travel perspective. I’m not a big fan of low cost airlines or low cost airports so it was only with difficulty that R persuaded me to fly with EasyJet […]
Quite snowy when we got up this morning and it is now coming over the mountains in waves, with Beinn Bheula alternately looking alp-like and disappearing behind the clouds. Looking at the traffic Scotland live traffic cams there is two or three inches of snow at the Rest but the A83 is clear. Just as […]
