Moving
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Supermarkets
Since we have been here, we have been getting a weekly delivery of our groceries from Tesco. I am very used to getting all our food this way having done so for the…
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Cometh the day…
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…
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Some useless lawyers
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…
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More Furniture
Today the furniture arrived from Norfolk. This was basically most of the contents of the house in Norfolk where J grew up. Compared to the stuff R and I brought from Donich Lodge,…
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Cardboard, cardboard and (yet more) cardboard
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…
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In which Amber gives us a fright
So come mid-afternoon R set off back to Donich Lodge. Before this is all over, he will never want to see the A83 again. Oh hold on – did he ever want to…
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Goodbye to all that
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…
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An uncomfortable night
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…
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The Cable Man Cometh
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…
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Bonny Dundee
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…
