R managed to snap a nice little stag eating a tree just outside his window. We’ve had a few deer in this year, and I hope it means that the population is coming back. I know there are too many deer in Scotland and they have to be culled, but I think they went too […]
We used to have a big patch of wild strawberries in the garden but they died off a few years ago. This week I noticed that a new patch had appeared – and yesterday I collected the first few to have ripened. They were pretty good, but I’ll be honest here (though whispering) not as […]
I made a sort of “montage” work of art for my brother’s birthday which featured a photo of every country he has visited (to date 42). Each country had a corresponding penguin (my brother has a “travel penguin” he carries around the world with him) dressed out to represent its country. I drew the penguins […]
After seeing the physio last week I’ve embarked on proper exercise for my foot. I’m walking pretty fluently indoors now wearing either trainers or sports sandles with no crutch or stick. I can walk ok in my soft soled slippers provided it is on carpets, but our house is largely wooden floors and my foot […]
Yesterday I saw two goldfinches on the bird table. It is a bit weird because some years were have virtually nothing apart from thousands of chaffinches, and other years we have quite a good variety. I saw a treecreeper the other day, we have the intermittent siskins back, various tits, blackbirds, robins etc. The heron […]
I went on my second solo trip yesterday – to Edinburgh no less. Still being limited in the distance I can walk (though I managed four flights of stairs and about 6000 steps), and also a bit short of time, I went into a coffee shop (called the “Black Sheep”) for some lunch. There was […]
Lucky’s new modus operendi is this:- Do my own thing in the wilderness for about 48 hours, living on what I can catch and stored fat. If it rains heavily, or if I get very hungry, come home. Eat anything that has been left out for me in the kitchen. Sleep in the lounge on […]
I’ve been walking around the house in the Aircast boot with no other support for a while now. This was not strictly speaking what they told me to do, because the instructions were “partial weight bearing with boot and crutches” until I saw the consultant six weeks after surgery. But my foot was no longer […]
Summer is in full bloom now, and the new camera is showing a lot of activity. Here are two squirrels playing with each other. Then Saphy comes along. She very nearly catches one, but luckily they are able to run straight up the rough cast on the side of the house so it managed to […]
R told me he was having a “doughnut meeting” this afternoon. Apparently (and this sounds like a very, very American idea), you are paired up at random with a person from a different team in the Company, and you just have a general chat to get to know each other. I suppose it is not […]
