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 […]

Yesterday when Norfolk was breezy and sunny, Scotland was hit with the worst storm in 20 years (or so they say – I think people exaggerate these days). Lochgoilhead was hard hit, and of course the power went out. Luckily R was ok because of the solar and the Powerwall. Even so, I havered over […]

I stayed at the Black Lion rather than trying to camp out in a half furnished house. It is a lovely old pub with a few bedrooms and is very warm and welcoming (worn old stone floors, roaring log fires etc). The rooms are good too – I had a massive king sized bed with […]

I’ve got the journey to Norfolk down pat having done it four times now. My preferred (preferred in the sense of least awful) is Helensburgh, Edinburgh, Peterborough, Ely, Kings Lynn by train, and then the last leg to Walsingham by the coastliner bus. Actually I’ve been known to moan about this journey but I’ve grown […]

R had to take poor little Saphy to the vet in Dunoon this morning. He went for a walk along the front while she was having her X-Ray and saw this lovely sunrise. I’ve always liked Dunoon as a place – unlike my Mum who has an irrational hatred of it for some reason. Saphy […]