I notice that Sex Education (as it used to be called) is back in the news. I was a very precocious child and was able to read from age of three (my dad taught me in spite of dire warnings from the educational establishment that this was a bad idea). From books and listening in […]

Firstly – I strongly dislike the modern tendency to use male terms to describe women. For example, I would never refer to a female thespian as an “actor”. To me this is all part of an erosion of women’s place in society – but I won’t get started on that in case I annoy R […]

I just got a new credit card. R and I had been after a card that gave us airmiles, as with his conferences he is stacking up quite a lot of them. If we can get £12000 purchases on it, our new BA Amex lets us get a “Companion voucher” which basically means two tickets […]

The above is our new recumbent exercise bike (a Schwinn – hence the joke!) – another attempt by me to keep fit without putting too much stress on my foot. R gets an allowance from his employers each month to pay for fitness related things – so this will be going towards paying for it. […]

Cats don’t greatly like organised exercise and strongly object to other people partaking of it. The girls did an occupation of the bed I use for leg exercises as a protest and stopped me from doing them. That’s my story and I am sticking to it.

Nothing by my former standard, but I walked with R all the way to Inveronich house which was the furthest I have been on the reconstructed foot as yet. It was fine, but although I am now only using one crutch in the house, I took both outside because it is very rough under foot. […]

R went out on his nightly mission to put peanuts out for “the creatures”. But one of the creatures had forestalled him, had knocked the lid off the galvanized bin we use to store the nuts and was happily guzzling away. It was a pine marten! When it saw R, it went away and hid […]

The waterworks upgrade is progressing at pace. All the trees that Jack Ewing had planted nearly 20 years ago have been cut down which is very sad. I know the work has to be done, but they could have gone to more effort to preserve the trees. They have promised to put them back – […]

R took this photo of the garden which is looking lovely if a little scruffy. At least I can go outside and appreciate it now, although I can’t make it across the rough ground to the bluebell wood yet. The bluebells are out, however, and I am going to send R on a mission to […]

I’m not a massive chocolate fan and in fact I positively dislike cheap “kiddy style” milk and white chocolate. By which I mean most British chocolate like dairy milk etc. What I do like, is 85% dark chocolate, and after lunch every day, I have a few squares with my coffee. R likes the sort […]