Nell enjoyed her walk today much more than yesterday’s. Overnight thunderstorms and generally lower temperatures have rendered things much more pleasant and put the spring back into her step. I, on the other hand, had to summon more reserves of self-discipline than I thought that I owned. Too many aches and pains and much tiredness …
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This, that and the other
Time to catch up on how life has been treating me over the last couple of months? French red tape has made settling in very difficult. Normal processes seem to take forever and to require sizeable dossiers of paperwork. We do now finally have a French telephone SIM card, a French car, an electricity supply …
The only way is UP… or On… or South, or something
It has been a long time, hasn’t it? I suppose I haven’t had a great deal to report on the “me” side. I am trying my best to keep Two Snails up to date and that is a difficult enough proposition as it is. We never seem to stay anywhere long enough to find the …
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In the East Neuk
We are back in Fife, at the Silverdyke Caravan park at Cellardyke. We managed to get a cancellation booking for The Cellar last night and set about celebrating 18 years together. Unfortunately, I took a tumble in the afternoon and failed to get the best from my evening due to everything hurting. It had however …
The learning curve is steep
I added the second kit lens to my new camera this afternoon and set the camera onto Aperture Priority. I was expecting a step change in quality but did not get it. I think this was my favourite shot. The lens is a zoom covering 40 mm to 150 mm. I tried it at both …
Just to satisfy your curiosity…
You want to know, don’t you? It is a tiny little house, an old Toll Cottage for the adjacent bridge. It has two rooms, plus kitchen and bathroom and a basement floor. The whole plot is rather larger than we had expected. Unfortunately the passing road is far more busy than we had hoped for …