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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…
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700 Litres
Earlier this week we took a car load of garden rubbish to the local tip. The one in Cupar is bookings only (you can see why because there are only three parking spaces)…
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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 it promptly began…