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Dragon Fruit
This is a Dragon Fruit. I saw it at the Farmers’ Market and bought it because it looked spectacular and I had never tried one. TLDR – don’t bother. Like many exotic fruit,…
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Edinburgh
As planned I paid my first visit to the big city today. I am going to have to admit that Edinburgh is actually my favourite city in UK (Rome is my favourite city…
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A nice weekend Part Two
This morning, R and I took a load of rubbish from the move to the tip in St Andrews – it is about 15 minutes drive from the house. There is another tip…
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A nice weekend Part One
One of the reasons we moved away from Lochgoilhead, was that unless what you fancied doing was something very vigorous in the the countryside generally involving mountains, lochs or both, there was quite…
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Fixing the window sill
Now I have the high ladder, I am going to try to fix this window sill. There is an obviously decayed bit on it, and it is the exterior sill for our much…
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Final stages of kitchen
I managed to finish painting the walls. Now I am putting some final touches to the room as there are a couple of ugly bits left, plus the walls look a bit bare.…
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Cats and cupboards
What is with cats and cupboards? This huge house is packed with comfy chairs and beds and yet… Here is Saphy in an airing cupboard. Her preferred place at night at the moment…
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Linen
I found some old linen while unpacking yet more boxes. One tablecloth had this laundry label on it. It says “Farrer” which was my grandmother’s maiden name. She was born in 1888 and…
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Stirling today
We went on a trip to Stirling today. With one thing and another and having every tradesman (and woman as our plumbers are female) in Cupar round at the house, I haven’t been…
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Kitchen – stage three
So with the units replaced and the new floor laid, time to go to work on decorating. Much as I would love to have professional decorators do this, it is way too expensive…
