We picked the girls up in Arrochar today. All we saw of them were some scared eyes in a tabby face, and a huddle of black fur at the back of one of the carriers. We had the spare room all prepared with food, toys, two new beds and a litter tray, and just as […]
We saw a lone sheep in the woods today. It seemed quite happy on its own. I would have expected it might have had a lamb with it, but no sign and it is very early in the year for lambs this far north.
It has been bitterly cold for the last few days. Because my office is in the garage extension we had built, it is not on the central heating, and I am reliant on the electric air heat pump which is part of the air conditioning system. It heats the room ok, but it dries the […]
R and I have been talking about this and decided that the house is just miserable without cats in it. I don’t really believe in mourning for a long time – we loved Tora and Schrodi, they had great lives, they grew old and we gave them clean deaths before they had to suffer. It […]
Most of R’s work is with “containers” now. By this I mean Docker and Kubernetes, and if you don’t know what those are, I am not going to explain. They are computer things. Anyway, as a sort of joke, R had a logo made for himself for a conference he is speaking at about these […]
I’ve sort of recovered enough to be able to hobble about the house and type with both hands. I still can’t go out of the house or really do much apart from watch videos. The picture above shows the dismal weather which is about the way I feel.
This has not just been an annus horribilis, it has been an annus super horribilis. The day before Christmas Eve I tripped on the lip of the shower and stumbled over it onto the floor which was smooth wet marble and as slippy as ice. I fell headlong on to it, cracked my head and […]
Haven’t seen one of these in a few years, but this morning there was a sparrowhawk on the bird feeder. I am pretty sure it must have got its prey because there were feathers strewn at the base of the bird table. It was gone in a few minutes and shortly after that the small […]
