Tomorrow is my birthday. I won’t say how old but I have a black and white photo of myself as a baby outside Lochgoilhead post office taken in 1967 – so work it out for yourself. On Sunday N had planned a surprise trip, so he and J came over on the Saturday night (we […]
I bought a ‘Freddy’s fruity suet treat’ for the little birds the other day. They didn’t show much appreciation for it during the first day of it being out, and they didn’t get a chance to revisit it on the next day, because it was removed by an appreciative badger during the night. If you […]
My Mum sent me a cutting of a good article about two abandoned pine marten kittens which were rescued and returned to the wild. What caught my eye was that one of them was apprehended having entered a house through the cat flap, eaten the cat’s food and then settled down for a nap in […]
I was over in the village at a little ‘soiree’ tonight, as one of the founder members of our local magazine (“The Wee Goil”) was leaving for pastures new. There was a lovely buffet, but I had promised to bring the cake, and was determined to make sure it wasn’t a disappointment. So being a […]
The weather over the last few weeks has been so sensational that it has been hard to believe that it isn’t always crisp and clear in Argyll in autumn. But the most recent days have reminded me that October in Lochgoilhead tends to be a soggy affair, with the skies leaden, and the clouds rarely […]
About five years ago I left corporate life behind, and with it my two mobile devices (one iPhone 4, one Blackberry Bold). After a very brief and very unsuccessful attempt with an early Android phone, I acquired my first Windows Phone (a Lumia 800 on WP7), and I have been on the platform ever since. […]
R and I were down in south Scotland visiting my parents this week. The fabulous weather is continuing at the moment although I realize that with the insouciance of fate that as I am not working tomorrow that today will probably be the last day of it. So we went out for a couple of […]
We have been so busy it has been a real challenge to spare an evening to go to Dumbarton to shop of late. This was sort of ok because we had lots of food in the freezer which we were slowly working our way through – but we normally have soup for our lunch and […]
