This morning started well.  I went back out in the garden and pulled up a mass of weeds, including in excess of 50 foxgloves.  I examined the access to the two strange areas…

Now two days before we are due to complete on the Donich Lodge sale, and we have heard nothing more from our solicitors.  I rang ours to discover that theirs had not put…

You just can’t imagine how much crap there is choking up the house.  For a start off, the people who sold us the house did a far from stellar job in removing their…

So the sun finally sets for me over Donich Lodge.  Today I am moving my permanent base to Castlebank to join J (although it is my intention to return one more time to…

Today Pickford’s took a big proportion of our life, put it in a van and drove away with it. This sounds melodramatic, but in fact it genuinely was a bit traumatic.  For a…

R and I got up early and made our way to Cupar.  We have tried a different way every time we have been, and today we went across the Kincardine Bridge.  I had…

I was hoping it would be a nice day to make the most of the fantastic view there would have been if the sun was shining.  It wasn’t.  J headed off back to…

J and I got up at the crack of dawn and got a taxi to Arrochar to catch the 7:10am train to Glasgow. With the insouciance of fate, R was away at a…