I took my Mum to Gamba in Glasgow for lunch today to celebrate her birthday later this month. I chose it because it was the second best rated restaurant in Glasgow on Trip Advisor (and also you could book it online). I was going to have prawn cocktail (seems to be back in fashion again) […]
These two deer studied me carefully when I opened the kitchen door, and then went back to eating the grass (they haven’t had a go at the daffodils yet this year but there is still time). Later on R saw a yearling on his own – I would guess that Mummy has finally given him […]
The cats are fourteen today. It seems just like yesterday that we brought them home from Preston to Edinburgh. The breeder kindly gave them their worming tablet before we set off, and then when we got to Carlisle the M74 was closed and we had to detour via A7. It took ages, the tablet kicked […]
It turned out nice late this afternoon after a dismal Sunday and Monday. I went for a walk out towards Coran Lochan and it was very pretty indeed on the high path. The days for going through the cow field are numbered for this year though – as it is the worst place for flies, […]
R and I tackled Beinn Bhuidhe today. This is another one of these (to an English speaker) strange Gaelic spellings, and is pronounced very approximately “Vu-Yid”. It means ‘Yellow Mountain’. This is probably the least climbed of the local Munros as it is a long way from any of the others, which means that if […]
I decided to put my reporting day for this week off until tomorrow and have a day in town. The Celts exhibition is on in Edinburgh at the moment, and as I missed seeing it when it was on in London last year, I thought I would make the effort and go and see it […]
I was heading out for a walk yesterday when I noticed two new potential friends in the field in front of our house (this is the field which was supposed to have been going to be made into a shinty pitch for the village, but which is so badly drained at the moment that the […]
My Mum painted me a lovely picture of the waterfalls at the “Meeting of the Waters” about a mile from here. This was as they looked when we walked up there on Christmas Day this year. Actually about every picture in our house was done by my mother, so we have a couple of fantastic […]
This morning we had an egg painting competition. The eggs were some beautiful brown ones from my Mum’s friend’s hens. They are free to scratch around outside, and have lovely views to look at which must make for contented hens and quality eggs. I am afraid that R is not a very talented artist. His […]
I did a double take walking past a delicatessen window in Castle Douglas today – it was full of very lively ducklings. A passing spaniel also didn’t believe what he was seeing and had a good bark at them. They didn’t seem very phased however, and went on with what they were doing, which was […]
