A dark wet windswept day today. All energy is being sapped and nothing much is happening at all… especially in the kitchen, where plans for today have stalled. Where are all the good films when you need them?
Category archives: Living
For the duration
“There is going to be a dearth of complicated cookery around here until such time as either we can afford to fix the Rayburn or the weather warms up…
…Today we are having haggis. I just checked the heating instructions and we may boil it for 90 minutes, bake it for 45 minutes, or nuke it for 5 minutes. The choice is an easy one…”
2009
I just put the batteries into 2009, folks. Please enjoy it responsibly. It’s all shiny and new – don’t break it.
Christmas
Christmas Day dawned fair – a long-awaited break in the weather brought a day of blue skies, sunshine, and very little wind. Perfect for our picnic walk, though the tide times were anything but perfect.
High tide was due around 4pm, when it would be dark. We took a chance and headed out around midday, thinking that the tide might be low enough…
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…