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Lakes, roads and bridges
Today we went to the south lakes. I have always wanted to drive round this area without the motorway, so today we drove out on the old A6 and then back along the…
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Off on our travels
J and I are off on our travels this week in my new little car Gertie. I always give our cars names based on their number plates (for example our Land Rover with…
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Moth Rescue
I went out the back door to empty the bin this morning, and on the door lintel was a lovely moth which had obviously just emerged from its winter cocoon. I know some…
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Mother’s Day
Some nice things in this picture, all to do with my Mum and today. We were all three of us going over to see our Mum/Mum-in-law in Helensburgh today. I had to get…
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Another new walk
R and I went for a walk off the Ceres Road today. It was a lovely morning, and on the way we had coffee and rolls and sausage from Baynes. This is next…
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Orange beams no more
When we moved in last year, every bit of the woodwork in the dining room was badly stained a kind of “1980s orange brown” colour. In general this was pretty awful, but worst…
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A new cat toy
I bought a partially reconditioned Victorian firebox for the dining room. The idea is that it will be filled with logs and placed in the hearth as a feature. It came from ebay…
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Lenten Biscuits
I made some biscuits for a church group today. I had been going to make my (and R’s) favourite “Christmas Biscuit” but as it consists almost entirely of sugar, butter, nuts, dried fruit…
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It’s curtains for us…
The curtains came back from “The Steamie” today (this is an actual local business in this case – not the generic name for a laundry). It was a really good service because they…
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Tiles in place
J is finally recovered from his cold (not flu I think…) and I enlisted his help putting the tiles on to the fireplace. He put the adhesive on and I put the tiles…
