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  • Jaunty

    We have been around a bit in the last week, in fact I have to look up the calendar to remember it all.  Suffice  to say highlights were our time in Slaley, much blethers, some swimming and loads of shopping;  a visit to the zoo with Rosemary to meet the pandas and seeing the Cooks…

  • Degustation

    Ah, foot cramp.  Such an effective way of waking up, I really should market it. Just checked my last post, October 10th, crikey, we have been busy celebrating Mr Holmes’s significant birthday.  As you might expect, there was a food theme here.  We met John and Yvonne in Berwick, at Foxton‘s, and had lunch with…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • IIC

    Dad was 98 yesterday.  The sun shone on our wee party.

  • 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…

  • #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…

  • 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…

  • Spinally tapped

    Another evening at Pilates, another well stretched me. We had a very interesting weekend with our friend Rieko, from Tokyo. Saturday: National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh; Meadows walk; Burrell Collection, Pollok Park, Glasgow; then home for a gourmet Japanese meal. Sunday: The Kelpies, Falkirk; the new exhibition at the field of the Battle of Bannockburn;…

  • Scottish Serenade

    Pretty short on updates, spent my birthday weekend at Blair Atholl with After 8 Mince, the groupies, Yard of Ale, On the Wagon, Dalgety Bay Folk Club and some very hard working hotel staff. Then a whizz up to the Highland Wildlife Park to see the red pandas, the wolverine, the capercaillie (finally) and the…