Some time ago I wrote a blog post about how I was trialling out using an Android phone instead of a Windows phone (Goodbye, my love, goodbye….). You can see from the title of this post what has happened about that… I realize that it is my own fault, but not being overly keen on […]
That is my tree all decorated and the presents wrapped. I also got my Christmas cake iced. The ready made fondant icing you can get these days really is a boon to people like me who are useless at icing cakes. When I was a child it was always royal icing which was exceeding difficult […]
I’ve made a vegan hamper for a Christmas present rather than buying a commercial one. I thought it showed more personality than just buying one off the peg (and also I object to the fact that the company for the one I bought last year has suddenly decided that our Postcode is a remote Highland […]
I made a calendar with some nice pictures from the last year in it. Hoping that everyone reading this will enjoy it and Merry Christmas (definitely not Happy Holidays) to all. lochgoilcalendar2016
I just got back from a mini-break in Bruges and Ghent with J (R has used all his holidays for the year – plus we have serious cat-sitter issues at the moment). I have to admit that after recent events I was a bit worried about visiting Belgium, and in particular, Brussels. But (of course) […]
I made my first clove orange when I was at school and I make a few of them at Christmas most years. I find the process of making them very therapeutic, and the smell they make through the house is incredibly evocative of the season. I’m going to make several and give them as stocking […]
I’ve started buying my Christmas presents and they are being delivered here in dribs and dabs.. R nearly had an ‘amusing’ experience on Christmas day, as when a delivery arrived for me last week, it was approximately the size and shape I had been expecting for his main present. So (it being an awkward shape) […]
There’s been snow on the mountains for weeks now, but today for the first time we had some at loch level, albeit rather slushy and unpleasant snow. R and I walked up to the side of Beinn Donich and looked at the Stone of the Britons through the driving snow. It is strange to think […]
I started my Christmas preparations yesterday by making my cake. I’ve a rather temperamental oven which I inherited from the former owner of the house (unfortunately it is one of those ‘too good to bin’ things as I think it would have been very expensive) and it tends to run very hot. In my previous […]
500g of dried chick peas is £1 in ADSA (in fact you can get 2kg for £2.50 but let’s not run before we can walk). The other night I was thinking of what to make for a special meal for myself (there is something very sad about that, but if I left it to R […]
