My Mum was clearing out her attic the other day and found some old friends of mine carefully wrapped up in a shoe box. These were Mrs Bun and Baby Bun, Mrs Ted and Baby Ted, and when I was a child, I played with them until they were nearly worn out. Even so, these […]
Just for funsies I made a bread basket for the guys coming over yesterday. That is to say I made a basket out of bread, and then filled it with three different miniature rolls (oat, olive and pumpkin and cheese and onion). The basket was surprisingly easy to make – I made a basic white […]
This is Tora making the acquaintance of a tiffany glass cat lamp I bought in a shop in Dunoon a few months ago. We are very slowly making our way through the huge jar of Jelly Beans I bought R for his birthday which you can see in the background. Neither of us are fond […]
Living out in the wilds as we do, our central heating and gas runs on LPG which lives in a tank in the garden and is periodically topped up by Calor when we start to get low. Eleven days ago we notified them that we were at 19% and needed a refill. Three phone calls […]
The hill just between Lochgoilhead and Cnoc Coinnich is called “The Steeple” although it is not very high at 378m (it’s a nice little climb with good views but a bit muddy and pathless). I was told by a local once (well I am a local now – but I mean a long time local) […]
I got two new badges for lifetime achievements the other day. I prefer the lifetime achievement ones because they are on-going – the trouble with the one for steps in a day is that having got the award for 55K steps (26 miles) it is a bit hard to go any further than that. And […]
It was bitterly cold but sunny today, and as I wasn’t testing, I took myself off for a walk on my own. I went up round the back of Drimsynie and up on to the circular walk, then at the top of the hill, crossed to the higher path. This winds through the hills with […]
I found another stupid gate to go with the one on the Cowal Way which had been put in the middle of a stream. This one is even better – it’s at the entrance to the top dam at the new Hydro near Ben Donich and it is a substantial gate, capable I am sure […]
I saw this stone when I was out walking on my own the other day. It is nearly as good a heart shape as the famous one at St Michael’s Mount in Cornwall which is supposed to be the heart of the giant which Jack killed. This one is the Cornish heart… And this is […]
What I want to know is, when two cats are asleep in an office right at the end of a large house, how do they know within 30 seconds when a chicken breast has been put into the microwave? However it is, they use the same mysterious power to detect when clean sheets or (better) […]
