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Eggs and Pumpkin
I found this egg shell on the lawn under the cherry trees yesterday. It was cleanly broken in half with no residue on the inside making it likely that it is the discard…
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The End of the Beginning
I know we still have a long way to go, but today we made some major steps forwards. All the new flooring went in to the basement. The intention had been to paint…
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New Plumbing
The first night we moved in I tried out the only shower on the first floor and nearly boiled/froze myself to death with it because the temperature oscillated about randomly without any input…
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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 coaxed our shy…
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Fast or Slow?
I’ve always been a fan of the JFDI protocol. To give an analogy – you are trapped by your ankle by a giant clam and the tide is coming in. It is lose…
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Two beautiful pictures
This is our lovely pure black lady Amber sitting on a velvet “Ladies’ chair”. In Victorian times, chairs for ladies were made with no arms in order to accommodate their skirts (crinolines and…
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Oldies but goodies
A few blasts from the past today. Firstly – I hung my washing out in the garden. In Argyll the weather was much too temperamental to even attempt this – literally it could…
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You know you have arrived when
You have the ultimate expression of Victorian respectability – an Aspidistra. This is ours in pride of place in our drawing room window. The main reason that these plants were so popular in…
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Out and about
Today for the first time we had a bit of leisure to go out and take a look at Cupar. R and I walked some way along the river Eden. I lived in…
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A bit of detective work
We’ve been getting a bit of building work done to put a new bathroom suite in. We wondered when the room had last been altered to install the horrible acrylic bath we ripped…
