We set off today to go cruising round Lough Erne in Northern Ireland for a week. Of course with the weather having been beautiful last week – we are expecting it will pour down all the time we are away. In the confined quarters of the boat I can’t help imagining it will be like […]
I’ve not said so much about walking over the last couple of weeks. Reason for this is that in a burst of middle aged enthusiasm I signed up for the Edinburgh Half-Marathon. All went well for the first couple of weeks training, and then I was running back from Coran in a pair of barefoot […]
R is away in Glasgow giving a presentation tonight. I had to laugh at the title of one of his slides “Surface Attack”. This is actually refers to something which is not that interesting unless you are into IT Security, but it made me think of something else entirely. So below you can see the […]
In spite of the snow and low temperatures over the last few days, the plum tree is still covered in blossom, so perhaps all will be well for later in the year. I do hope so as Victoria plums are a real favourite of mine. Today the weather is really ‘goily’ with sunshine and squalls […]
We went to see V in Stirling today. I brought her a couple of homemade vegan treats. Firstly a tea loaf – this was seriously nice – no dairy or fat and considerably less sugar than most cakes, but tastes really moist and rich. Make 10 fl oz strong tea. Add 8 oz sultanas or […]
We got a new webcam for the shed recently. It is much higher resolution than the old one – which in one respect is great (in that the video is obviously far better quality), but unfortunately it means that motion under the fence where the wildlife comes from is not tripping off the motion detector […]
With a vengeance…. Yesterday my ASDA order had to be cancelled as there was snow on the Rest, and our road got blocked by cars getting stuck on it. Doubtless this would be tourists in what R calls “summer cars” but actually I hardly blame them – it can’t be too great to be heading […]
I’d been trying to find this photo for a while as I had mislaid it – R managed to find it today. The location is Lochgoilhead in front of what is now the post office, and the baby in the pram is me. As I look about a year old, I will date myself by saying […]
I made my Mum a special meal for her birthday today. We had brown shimps with bread and butter, a seafood ‘melange’ (monkfish and assorted seafood in a tomato sauce topped with cheese), and a rather nice (even if I say so myself) chocolate and raspberry cake. Back to home and the healthy regime […]
The government recently applied their ‘sugar tax’ – I’m in general quite opposed to using taxation to enforce one set of people’s moral values on the rest of the population, but I found it interesting that they think it needed to be done. Because here’s the thing (and I’ve done some fairly intensive browsing of […]
