There is frog spawn in every ditch and pond. Sadly our pond doesn’t get many any more – I think I know the culprit, one of these gentlemen flew off as R and I passed him.

What sort of activities you may ask? Particularly as R was away in London. Cat activities. First of all just after I went to bed, Amber joined me for a night-time purr. She has a loud and penetrating purr and she likes to do it as close to your ear as possible. After a while […]

When I was about eight years old, my parents acquired one of those beautifully bound “sets” of books which build every month into a collection which sit and look good on bookshelves, but rarely, if ever, actually get read. This particular set was “classics of literature” and as there weren’t that many books in our […]

J was passing through Helensburgh today and I asked him to get me a bunch of bananas and “a few” chillies. He got them from Nature’s Harvest in Helensburgh, which is one of my favourite shops as it sells stuff like gooseberries which the supermarkets have stopped selling. As you can see, they have a […]

I forgot to leave Lucky any wet food last night. There were two big bowls of dried food (which he quite often eats by choice), but on this occasion they were not sufficient. He then decided to signal his own ability to provide food, and indeed to offer us one of his surplus mice, as […]

In our garden – they have been with us over a month now. Yesterday I cut a huge pile of brambles – I had meant to put them on the compost heap today, but there has been about five minutes when it has not been raining. The sheep are greatly enjoying them and they are […]

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 […]