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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.…

  • 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…

  • Hooray for Holyrood

    Today we attended the Queen’s Garden Party at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh. It was quite an occasion, we were happily people watching whilst enjoying our tea, sandwiches and cakes.  Couldn’t see too much, due to the vast crowds and occasional rude manners (or lack of entirely) on behalf of the guests.  But some guests were…

  • Black Sunday

    Here is Dad, celebrating his 95th birthday in advance, with niece Betty (65), great niece Beth (16) and great nephew Andra (11).

  • 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…

  • 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. …

  • BA 8

    Just back from Blair Atholl, yet another wonderful weekend with Yard of Ale, On the Wagon, After 8 Mince and the Lilting Tilters. Most of DBFC pitched up on Friday night, and enjoyed a grand meal followed by many hours of music, laughter and insults.  On Saturday, after exchanging some wake up jokes at breakfast,…

  • Sheryl

    Yesterday we went to the wedding of Sheryl Thomson and Peter Ritchie, in the Randolph Room at Glasgow University.  It was a hugely moving ceremony, the bride looked stunning and the music was highly emotive. Here are some pictures of the happy couple

  • Do be do be do..

    be do be doobie..               * I have ranted before about the exploitation of collectors, be it of stamps, coins, used tea bags, whatever.  The issuing bodies are milking it dry these days.  I was about to launch into this one again tonight, when I came home to another advice note for new stamps here in…

  • Eye eye

    Today we went to Eyemouth for lunch with Johnny and Yvonne on the occasion of their wedding anniversary.  It was a glorious drive there and back, as the early spring sunshine picked out the new born lambs in the fields.  Pease Bay looked particularly attractive from up above, and the meal itself in Oblo was…