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A new look for the house
R found a wonderful artist – John Atkinson Grimshaw – a Victorian who painted largely dusk and night time scenes. With a little assistance from AI, he created the image above, and with…
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An Interesting Trip
J and I went to Rhu – by the longest of the routes I mentioned yesterday. We decided to go to Lochgoilhead first to visit old haunts (this is where we moved from…
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The miles and the road(s) to Helensburgh
My mother lives just outside Helensburgh and tomorrow J and I are going over to see her. I am having my usual debate about which way to go because there are lots. It…
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New Curtains
I thought my office was looking a bit dreary. The curtains had been up since we moved in – now only were they a heavy dark purple and brown, but they were absolutely…
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Clearing out the kitchen cupboards
I have finally lost patience with my kitchen cupboards. I have lots of different sorts of flour, sugar and other baking ingredients and it had all got terribly out of hand – particularly…
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Must be a proverb in here somewhere
I don’t know whether this should be “God will provide”, or “Consider the lilies…” or even “A sower went forth to sow…” – but something like that. Back in June, I took some…
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The Angel of Judgement
The plumbers are coming tomorrow to service our boilers – there are two for the house, and they are both in the basement which is the closely guarded domain of J. They will…
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Lurk and Lurkette
I may have mentioned Lurk before. He was made for the Cupar show in the class “a draught excluder made from recycled materials” and won second prize. His name is short for “Eden…
