I had my family over for a meal at the weekend and as is our tradition we had some fun activities. This year the theme was “Asia”. We had :- Quiz about Asia Noodle grabbing game Asian Poem Haiku writing. These were the Haiku people came up with – I won’t grace my mother’s “effort” […]
When we put the sound insulation into the wall between the two offices (needed to muffle the noise of R’s meetings) – we never replaced the radiators in the two rooms. Basically they had never worked properly because they were on a different thermostat from the rest of the house. The idea was that in […]
Saphy discovered Amber’s clones – Bumble and Casper today. For a young and lithe pussy cat who is so good at catching prey items – she is surprisingly clumsy, always rolling off chairs. What she lacks in one respect however, she makes up for in another – she is a champion ottoman destroyer. I have […]
I make the mistake of reading the news – sometimes I wish I didn’t. Everything seems to be in a sad decline. I wouldn’t wish to comment on peoples’ customs so I will stick with the times part. I grew up in 1970s in a village near Carlisle. My father was a mid-ranking Civil Servant […]
Another glorious day today – doubtless tomorrow (Sat) will be awful. On the way back from our walk we spotted some odd poo in the drive. It looks to me like a deer – just from the obvious rowan berry content. We haven’t seen any deer at all since last autumn when a medium sized […]
After several weeks of miserable weather – the kind of pouring rain/wind in your face combo which Argyll in winter specializes in – things seem to have picked up. For the past couple of days it has been bright and frosty with a sprinkling of frost. We walked up through the cow field this morning […]
Some videos of our local wildlife and a tribute video to our Bengal boys who unwillingly were moved from Livingston to here. I actually embedded these in the site this time instead of hosting them on Vimeo. Three Pine Martens Martens in daylight Badger and cat Cat defeats badger Sausages Night of the Nuts Sad […]
It is nearly 10 years since we moved to Lochgoilhead and many changes have taken place. Obviously the big one for us is that Tora and Schrodi grew old and died. But life goes on and we are now owned by Saphy and Amber. There have been some major changes in other areas which mostly […]
The first year we lived here (nearly ten years ago believe it or not), the weather was beautiful on our first day in the house. R had to go to a prearranged meeting in Edinburgh so I was left with Tora and Schrodi to start unpacking. Optimistically I though that we would have weeks of […]
Apparently these are foods of the 1970s/1980s which aren’t eaten much any more. As a child of the 1970s I remember most of these. 1) Grapefruit. Still around but you never see them served with the traditional half cherry and sugar. They also used to be grilled. My parents saved up Green Shield stamps to […]
