I always swore that I would never have a collie – “too much trouble” I would say. How we ended up with a pair of border collies and a border collie cross, I shall never know. OK, I admit that with familiarity and understanding, they’re not so very bad – but you really cannot keep …
Category archives: Dear Diary
Two by Two
An unscheduled bout of spinning last night saw another bobbin of singles completed. There is till a very long way to go, however.
The Anniversary Waltz
Here we are again, eleven years in this time. Happy Anniversary, my dear Mr L. It seems but yesterday that we were shivering in the Bratfud snow. Shopping has been effected – just about everyone on the island seemed to be out and about today and things were very light-hearted and jolly. Our newest commercial …
All but one
The penultimate day of 2013 offered us little in the way of blog material. I have been doing the laundry, cleaning cat trays and tidying my desk. Not the stuff of history, really. Here’s a few oddments that reflect my day: 1 – I seem to have lost a packet of Lamy cartridges. I bought …
Not quite what we planned
The weather forecast had been excellent – very low chance of precipitation, sunshine, little if any wind. Great. We decided last night that a good walk was on the cards today. We got up to sunshine but by the time that we were ready to go out, it was becoming dull… and by the time …
Respite
I woke in the night to the sound of… silence. The wind had dropped, at last. The situation will return to normal shortly, so we took advantage of the weather window and took the dogs out after breakfast. It was bang on low tide, but a neep tide means little difference ‘twixt high and low …