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Apr 11th, 2016

Cat on a Hot Shed Roof

Schrodi decided to use me as a ladder to climb on to the shed roof. He then spent five minutes polying around before wanting a lift down in case he hurt his paws on the nasty sharp gravel.

Apr 8th, 2016

I took my Mum to Gamba in Glasgow for lunch today to celebrate her birthday later this month. I chose it because it was the second best rated restaurant in Glasgow on Trip Advisor (and also you could book it online). I was going to have prawn cocktail (seems to be back in fashion again) […]

Apr 8th, 2016

The Tick Bags are back again

These two deer studied me carefully when I opened the kitchen door, and then went back to eating the grass (they haven’t had a go at the daffodils yet this year but there is still time). Later on R saw a yearling on his own – I would guess that Mummy has finally given him […]

Apr 8th, 2016

Happy Birthday Lads!

The cats are fourteen today. It seems just like yesterday that we brought them home from Preston to Edinburgh. The breeder kindly gave them their worming tablet before we set off, and then when we got to Carlisle the M74 was closed and we had to detour via A7. It took ages, the tablet kicked […]

Apr 5th, 2016

Lovely Evening

It turned out nice late this afternoon after a dismal Sunday and Monday. I went for a walk out towards Coran Lochan and it was very pretty indeed on the high path. The days for going through the cow field are numbered for this year though – as it is the worst place for flies, […]

Apr 2nd, 2016

Beinn Bhuidhe

R and I tackled Beinn Bhuidhe today. This is another one of these (to an English speaker) strange Gaelic spellings, and is pronounced very approximately “Vu-Yid”. It means ‘Yellow Mountain’. This is probably the least climbed of the local Munros as it is a long way from any of the others, which means that if […]

Mar 31st, 2016

Edinburgh and Celts

I decided to put my reporting day for this week off until tomorrow and have a day in town. The Celts exhibition is on in Edinburgh at the moment, and as I missed seeing it when it was on in London last year, I thought I would make the effort and go and see it […]

Mar 30th, 2016

Some new Friends

I was heading out for a walk yesterday when I noticed two new potential friends in the field in front of our house (this is the field which was supposed to have been going to be made into a shinty pitch for the village, but which is so badly drained at the moment that the […]

Mar 29th, 2016

Painting of our Waterfalls

My Mum painted me a lovely picture of the waterfalls at the “Meeting of the Waters” about a mile from here. This was as they looked when we walked up there on Christmas Day this year. Actually about every picture in our house was done by my mother, so we have a couple of fantastic […]

Mar 27th, 2016

Eggcellent Fun

This morning we had an egg painting competition. The eggs were some beautiful brown ones from my Mum’s friend’s hens. They are free to scratch around outside, and have lovely views to look at which must make for contented hens and quality eggs. I am afraid that R is not a very talented artist. His […]