• 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…

  • Other

    These are pearls…

    A few months ago my Mum gave me the pearl necklace my Father (now deceased) gave her for an engagement present in 1963.  He bought them in Hendersons jewellers  in Glasgow, and 60…

  • Food,  Other

    Back at the fruit farm

    Cairnie’s fruit farm opened their gooseberries for picking this week, and seeing as how you can’t reliably buy them in the shops any more, J and I went and did “Pick your own”.…

  • Church,  Travel

    Flags and trains

    J and I went to the Edwardian Exhibition at the King’s Gallery in Edinburgh yesterday, and followed it up with going round the Palace of Holyrood.  The former was pretty good and I…