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One that got away
Patagonia by Kate Clanchy I said perhaps Patagonia, and pictured a peninsula, wide enough for a couple of ladderback chairs to wobble on at high tide. I thought of us in breathless cold, facing a horizon round as a coin, looped in a cat’s cradle strung by gulls from sea to sun. I planned…
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Fortunes
After a splendid 5th birthday party for Lily, we found ourselves at East Fortune, specifically the Nation Museum of Flight. Displaying our new found tendency to be so far ahead of the curve that we come up behind it again, I proudly and possibly pompously showed my Member’s card, only to be told “It’s Doors…
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Durham
Well, were we not off on our travels yet again? This time to Durham, in the company of family chums. Stand out moments included an ad hoc napkin party hat event, and someone’s face when his son forgot to buy him a sausage roll from the bakery. The first three images were not taken by…
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Road trip
Home from Namibia, an unforgettable trip, now faced with the near-impossible task of selecting some photos from the 5000+ taken. Digital cameras, eh? In good time. In the interim, here is our list of new-to-us birds. Huge thanks to the Birds of Namibia book, by Ian Sinclair and Joris Kamen, published by Struik Nature, 2017.…
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Plastic unfantastic
Heard this on the radio today.
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Diverted
I would most likely break my website were I to upload all my pictures from our visit to Jupiter Artland yesterday. Typically we started off going some where else entirely, but a golfing extravaganza in Gullane changed our minds for us*. So here are just a few pictures of the works there. From the entrance…
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10 years on
Back home from a most enjoyable trip on board the Balmoral, although it did seem for a while as if the passengers who lived round the corner were going to miss the boat. We saw the isles of Orkney and Shetland in beautiful weather, in particular on the evening we cruised round Orkney and were…
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59ers
I neglected to put up any pictures of the school chums weekend away. Here we all are at Drummond Castle Gardens. We had a splendid time and very much enjoyed an eclectic selection of home cooking. Nice of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex to provide the Saturday morning ents.
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Dye stuff
Fiona and I fell to talking about her Gran, our mum, on Saturday. She mentioned that she didn’t know much about what Gran did during the war, so I thought I would write down what little I know, and maybe my sisters can fill in some blanks. Jean Stephen* was 19 when the war broke…
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Weekendings
A busy and fruitful weekend: Saturday lunch in Cafe Portrait, where we narrowly missed Ali and Les. Then we strolled along the main streets before heading up to the museum on Chambers Street to view Tim Peake’s landing craft. Hied off to our café du jour, the Angus Fling, where Paul was able to stave…