Afraid that after only eighteen months experimentation with the iPhone and Apple’s eco-system I have given up on it for good. Nice phone in a number of ways, but for me it has two very bad features, one of which is just a killer. a) The battery life is awful. Just as bad (if not […]

A quote from HP Lovecraft as I have had a very unpleasant experience today. We inherited three large composting bins for food waste at the bottom of the garden when we moved in five years ago. These were made out of wood and have slowly been rotting away. I decided to replace them with plastic […]

Walked out to Coran Lochan at the end of the peninsula this morning. Very nice day although quite cold. Unusually, I met several people on the way – I’ve often done this walk and seen not a soul from beginning to end. Must be with it being a public holiday.

Here is Schrodi enjoying his new cat shelves which were a Christmas present.  He never seemed to like the original high level shelf, but now there are three arranged in a row he has taken to the bottom one and started sleeping there.

It was R’s birthday yesterday.  I think he had a pleasant day although the weather was awful.  We did have a short walk down the new coach road path.  It is a lot better under foot than it used to be (I had a nasty incident there a few years ago when I slipped off […]

Well, that is Christmas over for another year.  We had a really good time, although I don’t think my Mum appreciated either my brother’s choice of Christmas films, or being forced to play Canasta. As an experiment, I tried cooking a goose on Boxing Day instead of the roast beef we usually have.  It was […]

Took my Mum down south for a holiday in Devon.  We stayed in a beautiful cottage in Newton Poppleford near Sidmouth.  Unfortunately the weather was very far from beautiful – we had been going to have a swanky Devon Champagne Cream tea on Saturday, but unfortunately the rain was so torrential that the roads were […]

I don’t particularly want two chairs in my office, but I ended up having to because one of the cats would always want to be in here with me.  Unfortunately this has done me no good as I have now lost both of them. 

I’ve been wondering for some time now about the mysterious present R was getting me for Christmas. This evening he set off for “destination X” and told me he would be back in two hours. He’d wanted to take a sheet with him and mentioned that he was worried it wouldn’t go in the car […]

I bought a wicker basket to carry cakes and pies over for my parents. It looks more decorative than a plastic bag and it keeps things flat. Not sure how, but Schrodi found it on top of the chest of drawers in the hall and decided it would be a good place for a nap.