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Keys to the door

There is a cracking door latch on the basement bathroom – it looks more like something out of a dungeon than belonging on a domestic door. Unfortunately most of the…

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14 June 2025
Moving

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…

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2 June 2025
House

Butterfly Rescue

With one thing and another we have had to leave the doors propped open quite a bit.  One of the reasons apart from the tradesmen is that we have not…

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10 July 2025
House

Testing our water

The question of lead pipes and our water supply has been raised with me by various people now.  My take on it (as far as Castlebank House goes) is that…

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14 November 2025
Food

A delightful lunch

I have had limited luck with buying meat around here.  The supermarket stuff is well, supermarket stuff, and the one joint I had from a local butcher was expensive and…

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14 September 2025
  • Moving

    Cardboard, cardboard and (yet more) cardboard

    / 7 June 2025 / 0 Comments

    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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    Taking stock

    / 5 June 2025 / 0 Comments

    This was going to be R’s last day here before he had to go back to his lonely vigil.  We tried to take stock of the house as well as doing as much…

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  • Cats,  Moving

    In which Amber gives us a fright

    / 4 June 2025 / 0 Comments

    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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  • Moving

    Goodbye to all that

    / 3 June 2025 / 0 Comments

    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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  • Moving

    An uncomfortable night

    / 2 June 2025 / 0 Comments

    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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  • Moving

    The Cable Man Cometh

    / 1 June 2025 / 0 Comments

    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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  • Moving

    Bonny Dundee

    / 31 May 2025 / 0 Comments

    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…

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    In which we explore Cupar and get our keys

    / 30 May 2025 / 0 Comments

    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…

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