• Gardening

    Another hard day’s work

    In the garden and kitchen. I have never expected any help in the kitchen so fair enough that I don’t get much.  R is not too bad in that he puts the dishwasher…

  • Gardening,  Nature

    Mowing the lawn

    Continuing my gardening activities today with our robot “Rowley”.  I did most of the back lawn – it was quite a nice day but windy with a few clouds scudding about.  All of…

  • Food

    New oven

    I got my fantastic new oven today – it is a Neff to match my gas hob and unlike the previous crap one where there was no way of differentiating between 150C and…

  • Food,  Gardening

    Back to “normal”

    I put my usual state in inverted commas, as I am not sure I have ever warranted the description of normal, but whatever it is, I was back to it today after our…

  • Other

    Packaging

    I will not name the company which perpetrated this because their stuff is good value and I like their physical shops – but honestly.  I bought some very cheap crockery from them and…

  • Food,  Other,  Travel

    Birthday Tea

    We went to Rhu on the West Coast today for N’s birthday.    It is a long drive but quite a pleasant one – today we took R’s rather convoluted route involving three…

  • Travel

    Dundee

    Another busy day of fun today.  R and I went up Dundee Law.  J was late so we didn’t wait.  We went by train as R does not like driving in Dundee, and…

  • Travel

    Fife Folk Museum

    Continuing the theme of going out every day of R’s “staycation” today, R and I walked over to Ceres to see the Fife Folk Museum.  It is about 3.5 miles each way, and…