• Gardening,  Walks

    New plan for front garden

    I am really really sick of some of the garden borders.  The back garden borders are full of plants, some of which are wild flowers (borderline weeds) and some of which are herbs…

  • Cats

    Cat bed

    Saphy does not normally sleep on my bed – but today I caught her in the act. What neither she nor her sister will do, is sleep in this cat bed R bought…

  • Travel

    Purely by chance

    R and I went off for a walk in Craigtoun Country Park near St Andrews.  We were going to look at a reconstructed Dutch village that had just opened, and also at a…

  • Food

    The joys of the new oven

    I have been enjoying the new oven. You can set the temperature precisely using a digital display and it will heat to exactly the right level (instead of having to guess to the…

  • 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…