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Coffee and crocodiles
I decided to volunteer at the Fife Folk museum, which is a great little heritage museum in Ceres not far from here. I did my first training session today – this was on…
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A postscript to our trip
Two days back from our visit to Lochgoilhead and I received the following postcard. “Sorry I missed you Mummy. I was busy patrolling my kingdom, although my new Mummy thinks I was in…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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The miles and the road(s) to Helensburgh
My mother lives just outside Helensburgh and tomorrow J and I are going over to see her. I am having my usual debate about which way to go because there are lots. It…
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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…
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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…
