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Slightly unsettling
For some reason I am encountering a frankly worrying level of synchronicity about Thatcher. Random works of fiction which I read are set in the Thatcher era, the non-fiction book-in-the-bathroom has just concluded a rant about her (very well worded too, it’s the M25 Orbital by John someone*) and the poster for the film starring…
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Misty and mellow
It’s frankly sad that a well-loved poem becomes a cliche, I was walking to the train station yesterday and the view from our hill was beautiful, leaves changing colour, low morning sun, wraiths of mist slowly melting and I remembered that Keats probably has never been bettered. But because so many people know the poem, …
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Puffin O’Clock
Here is the new clock which my husband bought for me during the Edinburgh Fringe. It’s birdy. www.stuartceramics.com
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Pond, James Pond….
I’m ashamed to admit that today I visited our water feature and howked out around three kilos of pond weed, or a whole heap of algal mat as Paul informs me. The redoubtable Davey will be round soon to clean out the thing and render it crystal clean, or at least able to flow again.…
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Davos Dauphinoise
Does anyone else look at an unpeeled celeriac and think “Ooh, Daleks,”? Maybe just me then. Anyway, after yet another session in the kitchen where things went less or less according to plan, I am finally arriving at the conclusion that it’s not me, it’s the oven. Or, to be more specific, it’s the temperature…
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Still crazy
Last weekend was spent in Glasgow. Firstly, there was an interesting four hours at Ninewells hospital in Dundee, for an appointment at 09:10 which was stretched somewhat by a fire alarm. This occasioned a total lock down, that saw me ushered into the room where they keep the anaesthetics, since there was no siren there…
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Working 95
Yesterday Paul and I went through to Stirling to see Dad just before his 95th birthday. Several efforts to “take a nice picture” came to naught since the darkness at noon that passes for summer in fair Scotia just now enforced the use of flash photography. Chums will know that this welds my eyes shut…
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Oh for goodness’ sake
I have occasionally had some moments in my life to look back upon the good stuff. Tonight the train home to Fife was delayed for ages (ooh, at least 30 minutes) by a points failure at Dalmeny. So, I was forced to sit in a comfy double seat by myself, reading a very good book…
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Losing it
It’s been a while. Feels as if the world, or at least my version of it, has tilted on its axis somewhat, I’m finding areas of it to be, well, interesting, shall we say. Less anon. But I have failed to comment on so much, especially the Christening and family party for young Callum Cook. …
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Mythical Kings*
Been a bit down of late for various reasons, suffice to say that I have the best family and the most wonderful caring husband on the planet. *down down down where the iguanas play. Dory Previn Mythical Kings and Iguanas