I am down in Dumfries and Galloway visiting my parents for New Year. Yesterday was an ‘interesting’ journey to say the least. First of all the Rest and be Thankful was closed by a landslide (again – so much for the expensive nets they have put there to try to catch these), so R had […]
R and I had a good Christmas morning walk. Everything is looking very pretty here today, with snow all over the mountains.
My brother N prepared a fantastic Tapas buffet for Christmas Eve. He even decorated the room with Spanish flags, red and yellow balloons and (this was a nice touch) matching tulips. We had (amongst other things) manchego cheese, jamon serrano, quince jam, broad beans cooked with spinach, chorizo with mushrooms, chicken croquettes, chorizo sausage rolls, […]
A peaceful and happy Christmas to everyone. The picture is of the carpark in Lochgoilhead village centre partially under water – let’s hope no one gets flooded out – I really feel for the poor people of Cumbria (which is where I was brought up). This is my table laid for dinner. This is a […]
The cats have been incredibly active over the last few days. Maybe it is having other people in their den, or perhaps it is all the Christmas titbits they have been getting, but they have been acting more like kittens than staid seniors in late middle age. My Mum has bought me a couple of […]
Some time ago I wrote a blog post about how I was trialling out using an Android phone instead of a Windows phone (Goodbye, my love, goodbye….). You can see from the title of this post what has happened about that… I realize that it is my own fault, but not being overly keen on […]
That is my tree all decorated and the presents wrapped. I also got my Christmas cake iced. The ready made fondant icing you can get these days really is a boon to people like me who are useless at icing cakes. When I was a child it was always royal icing which was exceeding difficult […]
I’ve made a vegan hamper for a Christmas present rather than buying a commercial one. I thought it showed more personality than just buying one off the peg (and also I object to the fact that the company for the one I bought last year has suddenly decided that our Postcode is a remote Highland […]
I made a calendar with some nice pictures from the last year in it. Hoping that everyone reading this will enjoy it and Merry Christmas (definitely not Happy Holidays) to all. lochgoilcalendar2016
I just got back from a mini-break in Bruges and Ghent with J (R has used all his holidays for the year – plus we have serious cat-sitter issues at the moment). I have to admit that after recent events I was a bit worried about visiting Belgium, and in particular, Brussels. But (of course) […]
