• 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 – but not by any of the routes I mentioned.  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…

  • Travel

    Destiny

    R and I went to Perth today to see the Stone of Destiny (I had already seen the replica at Scone Palace with J a few months ago).  The stone itself was, well,…