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Daniel’s party
Yesterday we went to nephew Daniel’s sixth birthday party, big sister Michaela was there with her friends to help, and a jolly fun exciting time was had by all. The sports centre has a very large inflatable thing – it’s not exactly a bouncy castle, more a set of obstacles that you squeeze past, through…
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Nirvana
My friend Jill has just passed me a recipe for the divine congruence of two of the world’s greatest and most divine foodstuffs – chocolate and beetroot. Click here for Beetroot and Chocolate Cake or Chocolate and Beetroot Cake depending upon your Weltanschauung.
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Floody waters
Today we went to Vane Farm again, there was much ado about a possible sighting of a sea eagle, maybe in the trees, maybe on the loch… many twitchers had arrived and whether or not they saw what they expected, who knows? We saw teal, curlew, oyster catcher, black headed gull, whooper swan, goldfinch and…
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Stamp of approval
The next set of special stamps due to be issued by the Royal Mail will celebrate Magical Realms – I never thought I would ever see Nanny Ogg* (a witch in the realm of Discworld, created by Sir Terry Pratchett) on a stamp, let alone Tilda Swinton, albeit in her guise as the Snow Queen…
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Dear Diary
Yesterday was different. Firstly our train was diverted via Winchburgh – cue several Fifers in an ominously quiet railway carriage as they contemplate the West Lothian badlands, conveniently forgetting that the locals think the same of Fife. As ever, the woman beside me was attempting to re-make her travel plans every five minutes and expressing…
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Musicaloola
It’s a confluence. This year, there are new albums being released by the undernoted. Elbow Radiohead REM (same day as Elbow) Snow Patrol Foo Fighters Skunk Anansie (wee wild card there ) I have already downloaded the Rads and am tuning into it on the way to work, and home. How can it be that…
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Diary note
Today we went to Tesco and bought nothing.
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Beadnell’s About
Last weekend we met up with the chums from the 2008 (crikey) Norwegian cruise, down in Beadnell on the Northumbrian coast. Part of this journey involved the most sedate drive of ever down the A1, stuck as we were behind a slow moving something; despite the thirty minutes we spent behind it I never did…
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Late late late
..and again it’s been another interesting, if frantic, day. As ever, it was a relief to head off to the Pilates class and hear people talking about such strange stuff: running marathons; competing in the Iron Man challenge; focusing on exercise timetables – not a group which worries about missing the latest Coen Brothers release,…
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Kulchur
Yesterday we saw A View From The Bridge at the Lyceum theatre in Edinburgh which was a very well produced and directed show. I do like a play with unsympathetic characters. We also finally watched Moon which was directed by Duncan Jones, which was excellent, sci fi as opposed to space opera, according to…