I am not really sure that the two things are entirely compatible. It rather reminds me of the Saki story where a king had to choose between having pigs and flowers in his garden. The little girl was glad he had chosen pigs, but conceded that many people would have gone with the flowers option.
These were the Easter Eggs we painted this year. J was Captain Caveman (the best one in my opinion) R was the Minion N was Donald Trump My Mum’s I could never work out Mine was the Rabbit (which won)
This is the small loch at the top of the Rest and be Thankful. Luckily not any on the road itself.
Thick mist (or fog? I never know the difference) this morning. You can actually see the blue sky threatening to break through, and often on a day like this it does. And in fact it did!
I’m going to stop reading the news from today. A world where protests are allowed over someone who died in a different country over at the far side of the world, and now they are banning them over a serving police office in London who killed a girl and dumped her in a drain beggers […]
Was sitting on our doorstep this morning. He is lucky Tora didn’t go for him!
The poor engineer had to come over in the Dunoon ferry due to those idiots closing the road again. I am not an engineer but I honestly believe that this idiotic digging of pits has just destabized the whole thing and made matters a whole lot worse than it was before they started. If we […]
I just got an order from Array Fish from Inveraray. When they started delivering it was just Fish, but now they are doing all kinds of other stuff including vegetable boxes and organic local milk. The Argyll economy could frankly use a major boost after all this nonsense has gone on so I am supporting […]
R accused me of having a privileged up bringing. So just to set the record straight. My grandparents on my mother’s side lived in a one room tenement in Dumbarton. My grandfather was a builder’s labourer. In the 1930s he would need to get up every morning and see whether there had been frost. If […]
