I couldn’t resist making this one for my friends at the weekend – so that if they asked me what was for dinner I could say ‘Egg and Chips with a slice’. So for the ‘Egg’ component – I fried two medium onions and two large peppers (any colour) until soft and towards the end […]
Just my sort of weather at the moment. It is (largely) sunny and dry – but the heat (which was a bit cloying at times during July) has dropped off and at about 15 degrees it is perfect walking weather. Unusually however, quite a few leaves are coming off the trees. I don’t know if […]
R was nominated by one of his ‘friends’ to do the ice bucket challenge. He very completed this in the Donich this morning and I would have liked to have linked the video here. However he has threatened me with dire consequences if I post it on line – so I will have to content […]
We got another really good look at our Marten yesterday. Again it was R who just happened to glance out of the window mid afternoon and notice him perched on the bird table. We’ve actually noticed a load of extra bird activity in the last week or so after several months where they haven’t seemed […]
I have to say – my squash harvest was not bountiful. Out of five large plants I ultimately got a handover of very small ones which rotted before they were ready to pick – and the solitary one pictured. To put things in perspective (literally) it is about 15cm long. I don’t know what I […]
One of the apple trees in our garden is loaded with fruit which look ready, so this afternoon I picked one to try it. Not sure what variety it is but it has a crisp white flesh and a red skin, and it was in fact ready. I cut it in half and gave half […]
Well it is feeling a bit autumnal here for all we are still in August. A few leaves are coming off the trees, the brambles are nearly ripe and the polytunnel and greenhouse are nearly empty after the last month of glut. This evening R mowed the lawn (which doesn’t seem to be taking the […]
I think I will give up my job as a security tester and live off the income my cats could make by giving masterclasses in cute. My parents went home yesterday and I stripped their beds. Ten minutes later I came back with the clean sheets and Schrodi had ensconced himself in the pile of […]
The cherries, raspberries and strawberries are all over now which is a shame because they were a very welcome addition to breakfast every day… However the plums are now ripe and there is an embarrassingly large number of them considering they come from one small tree. I’ve had a bit of a battle picking them […]
Yesterday we went on a trip we have been promising ourselves since we moved in and hired a boat to go out on Loch Goil. It was J’s birthday during the week, so I booked the boat for myself, J, R and (introducing my brother) N. The evening before the guys had stayed over and […]
