Last night R and I were sitting in the lounge when we became aware of a presence at the door.  We sat still and quiet, and after a minute or two Amber emerged into the room. She had a sniff around and went out again without really coming to see us, but at least this […]

We have still not seen Amber.  We would be worried about her, but overnight she appeared on our webcam, creeping stealthily down the hall.  We were warned that she was a bit timid. Saphy acts as though she has always lived here.  She is not showing any urgent desire to go outside, so we will […]

When we opened the bedroom door this morning, Saphy was sitting looking at us.  She seems a bit nervous but quickly warmed to us and came through to the lounge. There is no immediate sign of Amber, so we have all the outside doors closed and the bedroom door open for her when she decides […]

We picked the girls up in Arrochar today.  All we saw of them were some scared eyes in a tabby face, and a huddle of black fur at the back of one of the carriers. We had the spare room all prepared with food, toys, two new beds and a litter tray, and just as […]

We saw a lone sheep in the woods today.  It seemed quite happy on its own. I would have expected it might have had a lamb with it, but no sign and it is very early in the year for lambs this far north.

It has been bitterly cold for the last few days. Because my office is in the garage extension we had built, it is not on the central heating, and I am reliant on the electric air heat pump which is part of the air conditioning system.  It heats the room ok, but it dries the […]

R and I have been talking about this and decided that the house is just miserable without cats in it.  I don’t really believe in mourning for a long time – we loved Tora and Schrodi, they had great lives, they grew old and we gave them clean deaths before they had to suffer.  It […]

Most of R’s work is with “containers” now.  By this I mean Docker and Kubernetes, and if you don’t know what those are, I am not going to explain.  They are computer things. Anyway, as a sort of joke, R had a logo made for himself for a conference he is speaking at about these […]

I’ve sort of recovered enough to be able to hobble about the house and type with both hands.  I still can’t go out of the house or really do much apart from watch videos. The picture above shows the dismal weather which is about the way I feel.  

This has not just been an annus horribilis, it has been an annus super horribilis. The day before Christmas Eve I tripped on the path coming down from the waterfalls.  I fell headlong down the slope, cracked my head and landed on my shoulder.  With difficulty I managed to hobble home I’ve sprained my ankle […]