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Lamps

My Mum bought us two beautiful lamps as a house warming present.  They look super nice in Castlebank House. We have one in the hall. And one in the Dining…

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15 June 2025
Cats, Moving

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…

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4 June 2025
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Taking stock

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…

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5 June 2025
Antiques

Bristol Harbour

One of the paintings which came from Norfolk is huge.  It is by WR Whitby who was painting around the time Castlebank was built – so it is very appropriate…

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28 June 2025
Food, House

Builders and plumbers and herbs and fish

Today we simultaneously had builders and plumbers in working on our new bathroom.  The noise was something awful in my office, so I retreated to the garden, at which point…

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2 July 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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  • House

    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…

    read more
  • 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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  • Moving

    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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