Yesterday I saw two goldfinches on the bird table. It is a bit weird because some years were have virtually nothing apart from thousands of chaffinches, and other years we have quite a good variety. I saw a treecreeper the other day, we have the intermittent siskins back, various tits, blackbirds, robins etc. The heron […]

I went on my second solo trip yesterday – to Edinburgh no less. Still being limited in the distance I can walk (though I managed four flights of stairs and about 6000 steps), and also a bit short of time, I went into a coffee shop (called the “Black Sheep”) for some lunch. There was […]

Lucky’s new modus operendi is this:- Do my own thing in the wilderness for about 48 hours, living on what I can catch and stored fat. If it rains heavily, or if I get very hungry, come home. Eat anything that has been left out for me in the kitchen. Sleep in the lounge on […]

I’ve been walking around the house in the Aircast boot with no other support for a while now. This was not strictly speaking what they told me to do, because the instructions were “partial weight bearing with boot and crutches” until I saw the consultant six weeks after surgery. But my foot was no longer […]

Summer is in full bloom now, and the new camera is showing a lot of activity. Here are two squirrels playing with each other. Then Saphy comes along. She very nearly catches one, but luckily they are able to run straight up the rough cast on the side of the house so it managed to […]

R told me he was having a “doughnut meeting” this afternoon. Apparently (and this sounds like a very, very American idea), you are paired up at random with a person from a different team in the Company, and you just have a general chat to get to know each other. I suppose it is not […]

I’ve been reading a lot about ultra processed food (and in fact have read “ultra processed people” up to the point towards the end where it started getting very political and woke). It does occur to me that R and I eat virtually no ultra processed foods. In particular I eat very very few. We […]

We got a new outside webcam yesterday because the night censor had stopped working on the old one. After R had spent 10 minutes stopping it sending our activities back to the Chinese government, he installed it near the shed feeding station. We have long known that Lucky was a hunter, otherwise he would have […]

I hadn’t seen my Mum for a while, so I decided to take my first solo excursion on the bus to Helensburgh. I’ve just been walking with the boot without crutches inside the house for the last few days, but going out on my own I decided to take one crutch with me, not so […]

Went to the leafy West End of Glasgow yesterday. It was the most amazing weather and every tree was a different shade of green – even in the city. Glasgow has come a long way since I used to visit my grandparents in the area in the mid 1970s – then every building was black, […]