R and I walked out to Drimsynie Beg this afternoon. It was sunny and raining at the same time in true Argyll style, and we saw a fantastic rainbow. This evening I also passed another milestone by managing to balance on my left leg for 30 seconds without holding on to anything. Three months after […]

After the strangely mild but clear day yesterday, it is back to cold and frosty this morning. R noticed some strange effects outside. A small bush had been knocked over by the storm a couple of weeks back. Obviously sap had leaked from the broken stems and then frozen into swirls. The first image looks […]

The dreich weather has cleared up today. The views over the loch were as good as I have seem them at this time of year.

R is in London at a security conference (in fact he is speaking at it). Today I have had a few emails with pictures of where he has been. First there was this one… This was while I was writing slides about audit logging… Then there was this one… While I was bringing the bins […]

Getting slightly warmer here now and the first bulbs are just starting to come through. R and I walked round the river walk and community gardens in the rain this morning. February really is a dismal month. Never mind, it will soon be spring.

I made us some nice Sunday food today – all from a few chicken legs. I cooked them in the slow cooker overnight. Then in the morning I made a chicken and mushroom pie from most of the meat. I served this with baked potatoes and sprouts Then what was left of the chicken went […]

Well what was supposed to be two days turned into a whole week. I am a bit tired, but on the whole I had a good time. It was great to be out doing things again after such a long period of involuntary inactivity. It was also the first time I realized that my foot […]

My northern odyssey continued today with a move to Aberdeen. I’ve never been very sure whether I would describe Aberdeen as in the Highlands or not. It is a long way north, but the climate and geography of the city are really nothing like what I would call “Highland”. Gentle rolling plains and fertile farmland […]

I haven’t even been home to Argyll yet, and today I am off on my travels again, this time up North trying to talk some companies into buying our training course. I had a Heilan’ woman’s breakfast in Queen’s Street Station (R said it looked a bit French but perhaps that was the influence of […]

I used to work as a Lotus Notes Administrator. One of the best error messages I have ever seen appeared in the log files when the server was very, very busy “Unable to keep up with the flow of events”. That’s me at the moment… I am simultaneously a) cleaning out a house in Norfolk […]