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    An evening promenade

    I haven’t been to St Andrews for a while so I thought I would go for a stroll along the sea front today after the “tourists had gone home” – partially because I…

  • Food

    Yorkshire Puddings

    I have never had much luck with Yorkshire Puddings.  My mum made them (pre-fan oven) when I was a child, and they would always be brilliant until someone important was coming for dinner,…

  • Cats

    In which Amber has an adventure

    It would be fair to say that Amber is not an adventurous cat.  She is large, plump and indolent, with her main interests in life being sleeping, eating and being combed (a bit…

  • Nature

    More lightning…

    After the heat of the last few days (not that hot here really – though to listen to some of the snowflakes around here you would think it was), the weather broke today…

  • Nature

    Oh deer…

    J and I went to the Scottish Deer Centre today.  It is just down the road from us and we must have driven past it at least 100 times in the last year. …

  • Gardening

    Garden Today

    My Mum who has not been too well asked me to put some pictures of the garden online. Here we go. One of our three ponds with waterlilies just starting to come out…

  • Food

    Burger Buns

    The rolls I normally make are made with a very basic recipe – 500g strong flour to 350ml water.  This makes a lovely roll – but it is crispy and quite “rustic” –…

  • Other

    Another wonderful night sky

    The fantastic view from my bedroom window very late at night.  It hardly gets dark at the moment which is in general great, but not conducive to sleep as the curtains in my…

  • Travel

    Seaside

    Today was the summer solstice.  R and  I had not been to the coast together as yet (although J and I had one attempt which had been spoiled by the Fife “Haar”) so…

  • Gardening

    Timber!

    There was a large dead tree in our front garden – I noticed when we moved in that it was nearly dead, but we left it until this year to give it a…