• House,  Nature

    Douglas and the Crocs

    Here is Douglas the little leather pig we bought yesterday (in Castle Douglas). He is holding the door open. Approaching him, however, are the two crocs Lurk and Lurkette. He looks very tasty,…

  • Travel

    Mossdale

    R and I went to Mossdale, a tiny village near Castle Douglas where my parents used to live today.  It was a long drive – perhaps stupidly we went out through the centre…

  • Creative

    A new look for the house

    R found a wonderful artist –  John Atkinson Grimshaw – a Victorian who painted largely dusk and night time scenes.  With a little assistance from AI, he created the image above, and with…

  • Travel

    An Interesting Trip

    J and I went to Rhu – by the longest of the routes I mentioned yesterday.  We decided to go to Lochgoilhead first to visit old haunts (this is where we moved from…

  • House

    New Curtains

    I thought my office was looking a bit dreary.  The curtains had been up since we moved in – now only were they a heavy dark purple and brown, but they were absolutely…

  • Food

    Clearing out the kitchen cupboards

    I have finally lost patience with my kitchen cupboards.  I have lots of different sorts of flour, sugar and other baking ingredients and it had all got terribly out of hand – particularly…

  • Gardening

    Must be a proverb in here somewhere

    I don’t know whether this should be “God will provide”, or “Consider the lilies…” or even “A sower went forth to sow…” – but something like that. Back in June, I took some…

  • House

    The Angel of Judgement

    The plumbers are coming tomorrow to service our boilers – there are two for the house, and they are both in the basement which is the closely guarded domain of J.  They will…