Mince Pies

I had made a dozen mince pies. I took great care with them, to make them as good as possible under the circumstances. But tragedy befell! …

Christmas Picnic

Set of photographs of the dogs at the beach on Dec 25th, 2008. The deep/dark colours are due to my forgetting that I had a polariser fitted. In most cases, I don’t mind at all. There’s something deep and rich and lovely about these images – they remind me in some ways of oil paintings… like they already have the patina of age, somehow – just vague memories already.

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Antibiotics

Oh, poor Mr L!

Well, I’ll be humbuggered

The Safest Pair of Hands in Scotland just made a Special Delivery to our house. A Special Delivery from Santa, or one of his elves, it would seem – because the parcel is marked “Do not open until Xmas.”

It is addressed to me.

So, it would seem that we may not do Christmas, but Santa does.

I have a fair notion of what the parcel may contain, as I recognise a blue bag from Midlothian when I see it…

Eww!

Today I had cause to mull upon the emetic effects of kelp ingestion…

November Solids Club yarn

18th December arrival: The Yarn Yard Solids Club yarn for November – this time it’s Lochan 50% Merino/50% Tencel. The colour is named Seaglass…