Nell was a real trouper at the pub this evening. You’d have thought that she had been going for a pint every night for her whole life. I was able to remove her lead and she sat by the side of our table, good as gold. She appreciated the chips very much indeed. I may …
Category archives: Dear Diary
More Catch-up
There has been little knitting, despite the vast quantity of occupation that I packed in order to keep me amused for the winter. I had a sock in progress; the heel having been closed, I began the gusset on the ferry from Sanday to Kirkwall. That gusset was completed somewhere after Abington on the M74 …
All change
Hello! Here we are, safely installed in Kirkcudbrightshire. We landed yesterday afternoon and parked up in our allocated space. We have had a wonderful holiday on our trip down, some of which is now recorded at Two Snails. I have more to write up there and probably some waffle to place here too. My OU …
Drawing a line
Today was not a good one by anyone’s stretch of imagination. It should have been productive but turned into a downward spiral of problems and awkwardness. The upshot is that we are now nowhere near ready for setting off tomorrow night. Tomorrow? you may well ask. Well, yes. A change of plan has been effected …
Confession
I have done nothing useful today other than to clean the fridge, which was a shamefully large task. Apart from that I have made a new contact in Luxembourg and spent rather a lot of time on Yammer. Mr L spent his day largely in the conservatory, sorting out angling gear and packing it into …
Freebie(s)
What a day. This morning vanished in a welter of clothes-sorting and packing. This afternoon was dedicated to prepping the Macbook for my use when we are on the road. It is entirely possible that now, with a whole OU course ahead of me, is not the time to be climbing the Apple learning curve. …