I keep trying to get more garden related tasks done. R and I made big progress on Saturday – he chain sawed some trees that had come down in the winter storms, and I cleared massive amounts of brambles and demolished the old cat house which had been falling to pieces. We also finally gave […]

Poor little Saphy hasn’t been very well for a few weeks – she has bladder stones, and we have been trying to get them to dissolve with a special urinary diet prescribed by the vet. She may need to have an operation if they don’t clear up. But today she seemed alright. First of all […]

Went to Helensburgh to go to the dentist and see my Mum. We walked down to the seafront. R took a photo of the sea which was very rough indeed. It was so windy that I had to hold on to a lamp post to avoid going for a flight over the Clyde.

Now I am broadly back to normal, I want to try to get the garden back into shape. It has become very overgrown, and the area round the pond in particular needs a lot of work. But ever since I have been ready to get started, it has poured it down with rain. It was […]

R bought me this for Christmas and I just put it in the guest bathroom. It reminds me of the Teletubbies “We are the sheep”.

I grew my Christmas cactus who I call “The White Lady” from a single leaf. I’ve had her for over ten years, and normally she has masses of pinkish white flowers around December. This year, she only had one flower the week before Christmas, and looking at her, I realized that she is badly in […]

While throwing things away we found a box of ancient floppy disks – including a copy of Windows 95 on floppy disk. I am thinking of installing it as my new OS – at least it wouldn’t keep stuffing CoPilot down my throat. Come back Clippy, all is forgiven

J has a big collection of soft toys. Mostly people have given him over the years, but part of his family is a “zoo” which he bought himself when working for a games shop over thirty years ago. There are ten or so different animals:- elephant, zebra, tiger etc Now he is clearing his flat […]

In Inverness again. It really is a most attractive city (even in Feb). This was the view walking along the river Ness in the afternoon. This was the view from my window in the Premier Inn (seriously impressed by their premium rooms btw). Possibly most importantly – this was the view of my Highland Burger […]

I seem to have spent more of my time away than at home recently. This week back up north to continue pushing our training course, followed by back to Glasgow to continue the epic clean up of the flat J is selling. Saphy either didn’t want me to go, or wanted to come with me.