This is Nell. She’s a Border Collie. Though many folk ask what she is crossed with, she is in fact a pure-bred and has papers. She may not conform to some ideas of what a collie should look like but she’s pure collie in temperament and behaviour. A little bit OCD, maybe. Somewhere on the …
Category archives: Living
The snail stopped by this week
Mail from Deborah in Florida earlier this week. I replied with a long letter written on the ferry on Tuesday.
The snail stopped by again today, with letters from Wales and from Texas. Both had good stamps
Spoiling
I was in town yesterday, alongside the passengers of the 3,200 berth Caribbean Princess, the largest cruise liner ever to berth in Kirkwall. It was a monster, a floating town that dwarfed the dock. I cannot begin to imagine how horrible an experience it must be to holiday on one of those things. The main …
A Tale of Two Loaves
Time is short around here and there is little yeasted activity happening (we are doing puzzles at every opportunity) That being so, I made some more of the non-flour seeded loaf earlier in the week. It was a disaster It’s dry and crumbly and completely unsliceable. No, I have no idea what went wrong. I made another one yesterday …
Transference
I have been pottering in my studio. Having cleared the bench, it seemed as though I should put it to good use.
Which I did, with these five canvases.
Cut and come again
Recent rain has brought the grass on and today’s glorious weather has brought out the mower. It stubbornly refused to start, of course. We jump started it from the Land Rover, and what a faff that was. The battery is under the seat and the mower won’t work unless somebody is sat on the seat… …