In this life

I tried to add this to the picture of the shredded tickets, but it wouldn't work. So here goes - two blogs within two minutes. I should ...

I tried to add these pictures to the blog about my daughter and her shredded tickets - she took photos to amuse her friends in emails - but ...

Just for a change, here are a couple of photos of my sitting room. You can see that my beloved garden is really quite small, with the back ...

Well, this is the garden, and where do I have to spend my days? In a rather dark office, proofreading correspondence courses, answering the...

Well, pride comes before a fall: Gina tells me that she and her husband ripped out lots of agapanthuses in their garden because they grow l...

The holiday went very well, thank you Els. It was quite energetic – all that tennis and badminton (once a day each), though I wouldn’t want...

There are few people more gloomy than a teacher in the last week of her holidays. It’s bad enough when you’re a pupil, but at least (as I re...

We’re off on holiday for a week, as from tomorrow. We’re going with the extended family to two lodges in the grounds of Crieff Hydro (see ab...

My two daughters are very different from each other, though they get on very well. Daughter 1 is dreamy and rather disorganised. Or at least...

My husband and I have just returned from a few days on the island of Bute, which is off the west coast of Scotland. We'd never been the...

The city from Arthur's Seat (a hill). It's sunny and warm today, as it was yesterday. Don't know the temperature, but it must be...

At last I got round to taking Daughter 1's wedding dress to the dry cleaner's last week, and collected it yesterday. It's not th...

Many thanks to Dietgirl, Lainey, Anne and Gina for their kind words in comments about my previous, somewhat hissy-fit blog. They made me fe...

Gosh, I'm exhausted. It's my birthday. Not my most restful ever. Happy Independence Day, America. Diamond wedding party: great succ...

Well. You know when you've had a bright idea and committed yourself to carrying it out, and then you hit snags and wish to goodness tha...

I thought I would post a picture of Edinburgh, for anyone who reads this and doesn't know the city at all. This is Edinburgh Castle, whi...

Frilly columbines, or aquilegia - rather jolly and not appealing to slugs or snails - which I should perhaps drop as such a constant theme....

This is the design that I'm getting on a jug for my parents. I realise that this is a plate, but just imagine it round a jug. My mum rea...

I've just come in from the garden because it was beginning to get dark. Not terribly dark - still light enough to read, if not perhaps ...

Blogger hasn't been working - at least for me - so this is an experiment to see if this post appears. It's also a picture of an iri...