Back on the wagon and back on with the boots

We had rather fallen from the diet wagon in recent weeks but today saw me whipping up a quick 500 calories in the form of grilled salmon with pesto, accompanied by a huge pile of veggies dressed with garlic and lemon and a very few tiddly new potatoes. We’ll try to stick to it and …

Knitting on the go, tiling, and (ch)eating

I took the Denali throw away for the weekend but it was never released from the locker.

There and back again

Major highlights of the trip included: discovering that the toilet flush was not working; finding out that we did not know how to make the heating system work; spending an inordinate amount of time in three visits to Tesco; being stranded on Mainland when our ferry home on Sunday afternoon was cancelled due to gale force winds and high seas; and experiencing the van being lifted off its stays and thumping back down again

I could have SORN I was safe

It is far too simple a matter these days to un-SORN a vehicle. Just saying.

World of Uselessness

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In my step

There is something of Spring about it today. The birds are busy and tweeting merrily and the sun keeps peeping out – the temperature is a balmy 7.3º C at present. I  had hoped to walk out (with my camera of course) to find the fresh fish van that I learned of yesterday. The laundry …