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A lovely walk
Now that the immediate rush around the house is tailing off, we have managed to start exploring Cupar. R and I went on a little loop walk which does not seem to be…
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A modern beautiful thing
I’ve spoken quite a lot on this site about beautiful objects from the past; everything from Staffordshire pots, to 19th century bedlinen, to 18th samplers. I haven’t said much about modern things because…
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First shots of new bathroom
We finally managed to get our main bathroom finished apart from the decorating part which I will do this week. It is going to look very nice. But… If I ever do this…
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Cupar in bloom
R saw this when he was strolling through the park to meet my train. I had quite an eventful day in Edinburgh going to see a podiatrist for gait analysis to see if…
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All Four Paws
We adopted our beautiful black cat Amber from Cats’ Protection when she was eight years old (four years ago – so she is now twelve). She came as part of a package with…
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Dragon Fruit
This is a Dragon Fruit. I saw it at the Farmers’ Market and bought it because it looked spectacular and I had never tried one. TLDR – don’t bother. Like many exotic fruit,…
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Edinburgh
As planned I paid my first visit to the big city today. I am going to have to admit that Edinburgh is actually my favourite city in UK (Rome is my favourite city…
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A nice weekend Part Two
This morning, R and I took a load of rubbish from the move to the tip in St Andrews – it is about 15 minutes drive from the house. There is another tip…
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A nice weekend Part One
One of the reasons we moved away from Lochgoilhead, was that unless what you fancied doing was something very vigorous in the the countryside generally involving mountains, lochs or both, there was quite…
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Fixing the window sill
Now I have the high ladder, I am going to try to fix this window sill. There is an obviously decayed bit on it, and it is the exterior sill for our much…
