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Riffling through Embra’s lingerie
I always feel that Edinburgh shows us her knickers during the festivals. Yes, there is an influx of the tosserati. Yes, you have to add 45 minutes on to the planning time for every journey involving the city centre, even if you are walking. Yes, everywhere is full. But the streets are packed with colour…
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Serendipity
Pictures below from Starbank Road, Newhaven at the start of the month. You can see them as the triumph of the biological drive to blossom and so procreate, or pretty flowers growing in the rubbish. The choice is yours. Poppy petals seem to me to be about one micron…
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The evil that (wo)men do
Our thoughts are with everyone affected by the sad loss of flight MH17. Writing up my mid year appraisal with Mr Chopin for company. On the plus side, great gig with Big Country last night, loved it when Bruce Watson came on stage and said “I never thought I’d ever hear myself say this –…
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Shining forth
Right, today we are going to attempt to insert pictures one by one and make the text flow around them, not as easy as that may sound, although if you have ever tried to format a Word doc in three minutes flat, just before you need prints for a meeting, you will share my pain…
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Drones
Last weekend while Paul was embarking on Project Gate Paint, I went to the end of our road (seriously) to capture some images of the wild flowers planted there by the Fife Parks & Rec people. They were busy buzzing with bumble* bees and are such a lovely sight to behold. We drove to Cellardyke…
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Fresh out of Lotus
If I had a superpower I would like it to be the ability to stay awake during the dvd and stay asleep in bed. Since i have clearly lucked out on that one, here I am with my book of New York poetry after having played away all my lives on Candy Crush and finished…
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IIC
Dad was 98 yesterday. The sun shone on our wee party.
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Half term
Solstice again, and it looks like being a very, very busy day. Last weekend we went to Vane Farm, not been for ages, and oh happy joy, the flowers are out in the bumblebee meadow and beyond. Not only that, but in the furthest hide we saw male and female Little Ringed Plovers, nesting on…
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#dingding
Busy day yesterday, we met our friends the White family for lunch at Cafe Andaluz , then Team Holmes boarded an Edinburgh tram for the very first time, and rode in style from St Andrew Square to Shandwick Place. For those of you unfamiliar with this transport farrago, they are massively over budget and put a…
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No Man’s Land
Ban the Wasp started up as a repository for family history, thanks to a chance remark at a wedding, made by Marika Kennedy. I added in what was known about my mother’s uncles, two of whom were killed in the 14 – 18 war. There is a lot of awareness around the 100th anniversary of…