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Two beautiful pictures
This is our lovely pure black lady Amber sitting on a velvet “Ladies’ chair”. In Victorian times, chairs for ladies were made with no arms in order to accommodate their skirts (crinolines and…
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Oldies but goodies
A few blasts from the past today. Firstly – I hung my washing out in the garden. In Argyll the weather was much too temperamental to even attempt this – literally it could…
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You know you have arrived when
You have the ultimate expression of Victorian respectability – an Aspidistra. This is ours in pride of place in our drawing room window. The main reason that these plants were so popular in…
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Out and about
Today for the first time we had a bit of leisure to go out and take a look at Cupar. R and I walked some way along the river Eden. I lived in…
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A bit of detective work
We’ve been getting a bit of building work done to put a new bathroom suite in. We wondered when the room had last been altered to install the horrible acrylic bath we ripped…
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700 Litres
Earlier this week we took a car load of garden rubbish to the local tip. The one in Cupar is bookings only (you can see why because there are only three parking spaces)…
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Builders and plumbers and herbs and fish
Today we simultaneously had builders and plumbers in working on our new bathroom. The noise was something awful in my office, so I retreated to the garden, at which point it promptly began…
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In which I do a foolish thing
In the middle of cooking lunch today, the cooker suddenly stopped working. The oven turned off as did all the rings and there was no light on the switch beside it. R and…
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More gardening
I got some herbs today and planted them in pots out on one of the patios. They look in quite good health – but unfortunately one is a coriander. I really like this…
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Bristol Harbour
One of the paintings which came from Norfolk is huge. It is by WR Whitby who was painting around the time Castlebank was built – so it is very appropriate to the building.…
