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  • Long Gone

    Poor old BTW suffers hugely from neglect some times, but like a small puppy is always stupidly glad to see me.  So, there are issues requiring attention everywhere we look just now, and I got up at 05:45 today so that I could weed the back garden.  Needless to say it is now 06:53 and…

  • Happy birthday Dad

    Aye well, if you know us then you’ll know why it’s been so busy out there and so quiet on here.   A lovely afternoon yesterday though, father’s day and Dad’s 99th birthday. Clematis are in for Mum – she tried for many years to grow a jackmanii against the rose trellis in Cambusbarron, and dad…

  • Footing the bill

    Well, I haven’t been here for a while, sorry about that, things have been busy and I am still trying to work out what I think about last week’s Election result. So, yesterday we hied to the Lyceum in Edinburgh for the final play in the 2014 -15 season.  The was The Venetian Twins, relocated…

  • Downtime Abbey

    Well, it’s been unusually quiet here in Camp Chandler, Paul has had the cold from hell for the past 2 – 3 weeks and we didn’t manage to join the chums in Blairgowrie for the annual Folk Club getaway weekend, which was very disappointing but sometimes you just have to acknowledge when it would be…

  • Continuity

    Thanks to everyone who managed to come to see us on Friday,  we had a lovely afternoon and if anyone is feeling aggrieved due to lack of chocolate cakes, please pop over right now, any time, day or night, no need to dress up, although wearing clothes in some format would be appreciated.  Happy Easter…

  • Addendum

    With the frankly wonderful Lars Juel Kjeldsen, who steered us to a clear view of totality.

  • In the Hall of the Mountain King

    Back home from our epic eclipse cruise on Boudicca, to Norway and the Faeroes.  We saw the Aurora Borealis and the total solar eclipse.  We lined up in the ocean beside two other ships from the Fred. Olsen fleet, Braemar and Black Watch.    We went to a concert in the Ishavskatedralen in Tromsø which was…

  • Si vis pacem, para bellum.*

    A maxim which applies to all areas of life, not just the battle field, IMHO.   Jings, where to start?   Where did I leave off?  February 4th, apparently.   Since that time we were made aware that the Russian Consul General in Scotland was to award Dad with the Ushakov medal, at home, in honour of his…

  • Wintry discontent

    A Slumber did my Spirit Seal By William Wordsworth A slumber did my spirit seal; I had no human fears: She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years.   No motion has she now, no force; She neither hears nor sees; Rolled round in earth’s diurnal course, With rocks, and…

  • Redding up

    Janus is the Roman god  after whom January is named; he had two heads, one for looking backwards and one for looking forwards.   Harbinger of change;  turns out that is going to be quite appropriate for 2015, of which more anon. So, to Townhill Loch, north of Dunfy yesterday, to see some new birds and…