R went to London for a few days to speak at a conference, and got the chance to go on the new Elizabeth Line. Apparently it was very shiny and impressive – perhaps I will get a chance later this year as R and I have a week’s holiday in London booked in September. It […]

Here is Saphy with Amber’s two clones, Casper and Bumble (ABC for Amber, Bumble and Casper). Saphy loves jumping on things and then rolling around chasing her tail until she inevitably falls off. She is not very well co-ordinated and I sometimes suspect she may have a mild case of “wobbly cat syndrome” – but […]

R has started to take an interest in cookery of all things! He doesn’t want to learn from me and gets all his recipes from the Internet. So far he has been pretty successful – although he won’t take a telling as far as the proper cooking of potatoes is concerned (I like my potatoes […]

Now we are into summer, the community garden is looking very nice. The river walk down the side of the Goil River is also very attractive.

Here is our big black pussy cat Amber, sitting on R’s metal filing cabinet. Amber is the softest cat I have ever known. She is scared of about everything, and particularly doesn’t like sudden movements, loud noises and my crocs which make a squeaky noise on our wooden floors. She loves being tickled, but only […]

There are some great wildflowers down around the pond. For some reason although they grow around there spontaneously, my efforts at planting them from seed in other areas never seem to take. Apparently they are easily discouraged by grasses which are more robust plants, and I must admit that I have never cleared the ground […]

The tourists are obviously starting to arrive for this year because R and I met six people (a whole six!) on our morning walk up the hill today. All of them had dogs with them. I’d love to have a dog but R won’t have it (and he is probably right) because of the two […]

We walked out past the Shore House along the beach this morning – R says we have been this way before but if we have I don’t remember it. It was a bit slippy but very beautiful. There are a lot of boats moored and the picture doesn’t quite do justice to it. We went […]

J and I dug out the old raised garden. This was set up in remembrance of Schrodi. J did the digging and I did the planting. After a miserable failure in planting out herbs from seed, I ordered some grown seedlings and they seem to be doing ok so far. We have a nice variety […]

This was our solar production in April. It was looking really good until the last week when it dropped for a while because the weather was exceptionally dreich. May is so far looking even better – we have used no grid electricity in the last few days. It is unfortunate that there is no getting […]