I’ve been sitting looking at the weather today trying to decide whether to go for a walk or not (R is away at a conference). Every time it looks nice and I decide to go out, it suddenly deteriorates and is pouring with rain five minutes later. I eventually went out to walk round the […]
Just got back from my parents’ house where we had a very nice New Year (apart from the horrible hangover I had on the morning of Jan 1st after badly mixing my drinks on New Year’s Eve). It was bitterly cold driving back today, but there were spectacular views over Loch Ken and then the […]
When we got up this morning (unusually late for us as it is currently so dark in the mornings) there was no sign of Schrodi. Our estimate was that he had been out since about 5am – which was at least four hours and very unusual in the middle of winter. So we went out […]
Once again my brother N surpassed himself on Christmas Eve. Last year he made a tapas feast – this year he had a Mexican theme. We were met with tequila and then donned our sombreros. I have been strictly forbidden to put any pictures of us in the sombreros on the Internet – so here […]
This was the field next to our house during a frosty spell last year – complete with snow covered mountains in the background.
This was the river right at the bottom of our garden during snow last year. It looks as though we are going to be seeing more snow over the next few days…
The “Hieland Coos” are a favourite of mine. Many mornings when we walk round our usual circuit they are out in the field, and often on the path. They are very placid and will let you walk within a foot of them without budging. I often think that if you didn’t know this it would […]
This must be the first year that my Christmas cactus has looked likely to have flowers on it for the big day. Last year it wasn’t anything like ready even by the end of January and didn’t end up properly coming into flower until February. Looking promising for this year!
These were some amazing icicles we saw last year on the way up to the waterfalls.
A few years ago I bought my mum a reproduction of the famous Egyptian cat for Christmas. No sooner had we taken it out of the box than Schrodi colonized it. He didn’t quite fit into the moulded polystyrene shape but he did his best.
