Well, I was beginning to think that I would not have to say this at all this year but – I think I had too much sun this weekend! I kept off the anti-histamines because I only have the sleep-inducing kind available and I would rather itch than nod off at 3pm. Itch I did, …
Author archives: Scattered Thinker
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Please allow me just a moment in which to wax lyrical about last night’s meal. It was, as ever, a bit of a scratch affair. Nothing that I make here is ever the pinnacle of perfection because there is so much that I cannot lay my hands on. Hence it was dried Tarragon, not fresh, …
I coulda’ been a contender…
Some days one wakes up with such a degree of clarity… knowing that idiocy is one’s natural state. Remember when I went out to check all my WiPs and UFOs, to see what might be completed in time for the Show this year? I found very little. Well, I should like to know why somebody (yes, me) …
No fat around here
It was a perfect Show day, weatherwise. Warm enough, bright enough and best of all, dry. Not so much sun as to make things hard work. We popped up the road around midday and took photos of sheep judging and at the Horse and Dog rings. There was not a lot going on anywhere this …
That’s it then
That’s it then, the die is cast for another year. My Show entries are in. There was not much effort put into it this year and I’m not expecting any success, though I have one or two photos going in that I should like to see do well – for no other reason than I am …
Up with the lark
There is a fortune waiting to be made by the person who invents, develops and markets the first smoke detector to intelligently announce the demise of its batteries only during waking hours. 04:14 hrs is not the time to be suggesting that we identify which alarm is complaining and then to find a battery for …