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Aug 3rd, 2024

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Another Garden of Dreams

It will be J’s birthday next week – in fact the day I get out of hospital after my operation. We were supposed to be having a little meal for him on 10th, but I am going to be far from my best that day – so we met up in Rhu today instead. As […]

Jul 31st, 2024

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Sad to say

It saddens me to say this, but the operation on my foot has not been successful. Basically it is worse than it was before the operation, and a CT scan taken at 3 months has shown that it is still tilted over to one side and is therefore going to continue to pain me if […]

Jul 30th, 2024

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Rowley again

Rowley has sprouted a pair of googly eyes, the better to see around the lawn. R did a first run right round with him and here is a shot of the result. Front and back took less than an hour. The cats looked on.

Jul 27th, 2024

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Mixed success with carbonara

Spaghetti Carbonara has always been a favourite of both R and I. The other day (as he does) R had been trawling round the Internet and found a website where they sell the ingredients for “real Italian carbonara”. As a keen cook I had been aware that Italians consider the British take on the carbonara […]

Jul 25th, 2024

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It must be love

Ever since we have had him in the house, Lucky has had a strange habit related to a specific pair of trousers much beloved by R. These are quite an expensive style of joggers called “Silverstick”, and as well R liking them, Lucky definitely has a “taste” for them too. Basically, whenever R is around […]

Jul 23rd, 2024

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Our Mowrator – Rowley

A few months ago we bought a “Mowrator”. This came off a Kickstarter project to create a remote controlled robot lawn mower. There are plenty of robot mowers available in UK, but in general they are of the sort where you let them go in a designated area and leave them to do their stuff. […]

Jul 21st, 2024

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Resting Lucky

I thought Lucky was out last night (as is his wont) but when I went to the kitchen for a snack at 10pm he was there asleep underneath a radiator in the lounge If you look closely at where he is lying in the photo, you will see the mess his fur has made on […]

Jul 19th, 2024

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Waiting tolerance

I was just reading about the Cloudstrike induced IT outage this morning. One of the BBC headlines was “Edinburgh airport passengers go with the flow” – apparently people were patiently and indefinitely waiting for flights. This made me think about my own tolerance levels for waiting around, which I will say are not high. Basically […]

Jul 17th, 2024

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Nice and not nice

I went to Glasgow to do some shopping yesterday. Specifically I bought some new trainers because the ones I have (good and faithful old friends that they are), need to be retired. Due to my foot problem, the only shoes I have worn in the last year are one specific pair of trainers and some […]