Fantastic views from the house and over the loch. I was suddenly reminded today of a story about an office building belonging to the company where I used to work. Although I was home based, I used to pop in there from time to time and let myself be taken out for lunch. The building […]

I asked my Mum for a slow cooker for my birthday this year. In fact, she and my brother bought me a much more impressive beast – it is in fact a multi-function cooker which slow cooks, sous vides, roasts and boils. It is also a rice cooker which has pleased R no end, because […]

I went for an out-of-band cup of coffee while R was out. Came back two minutes later, and Amber had decided that the extra caffeine would not be good for me – so she blocked access to my office chair. My poor mother has still not met Amber because she (Amber not my mum) runs […]

My birthday today. Believe it or not I am on my own until this evening because R is speaking at a security conference in Glasgow. To be fair to him, I told him I didn’t mind, and to be even more fair, he volunteered to pick people up and bring them back, which is very […]

Once the final time window for taking her to the vet had definitely closed for this week, sure enough Lucky turned up at 6:30am, as loud and as unfriendly as ever. She ate three pouches of food, tried to scratch R and hissed at me. Back to normal. Then Saphy went out and caught a […]

Lucky has been here every day for the last eight days. She has come for her food in the morning, helped me in the kitchen and even slept in the lounge. So we decided to finally make her “our” cat. We got the humane trap down from the attic and made an appointment with the […]

This is a pumpkin carved by me – not the world’s greatest attempt, but not bad considering that due to my dodgy right shoulder, I did the carving with my left hand. I also produced a picture of Saphy and Amber on their witch’s broom – courtesy of Bing AI.

We bought this bench from a local wood carver as a Christmas present for my parents a few years ago. It has a cat carved into one arm, and a mouse on the other. Yesterday my brother saw that a third creature had joined the party – a squirrel.

Lucky is now sleeping in the lounge from time to time! Little does she know it but next week she is going to be off to the vet in Dunoon for some TLC. Specifically de-vermining, vaccinations, and, if needed, neutering.

Our little “stray” Lucky is now coming indoors. She has had her flea and worm treatments in food and is now no longer scratching herself so yesterday we showed her the way in to the back of the house through the cat flap. She immediately took to using it by herself, and this morning she […]