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: Living
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.
Here we go again
Personally I fail to see any special significance in the tearing-off of any sheet on the calendar – it’s just a totally arbitrary numbering system when all be said and done. However, if you are into that kind of thing – a Happy New Year to you. Mr L has changed his lenses, as he …
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 …