In this life

I haven't had much time to spend on the computer, what with lots of (very welcome) visitors, but I wish all my bloggy friends and lur...

And so that was Christmas. The cake was decorated by Daughter 2, featuring initialled stockings for all fourteen of us. Grandson insis...

Well, we're busy busy busy here - in a good way. Daughter 2 is here, having fun with her nephew and niece. She went out for a ...

Lovely to see Grandson again after his southern sojourn. He has a(nother) cold and can't breathe through his nose, poor little mite, ...

The house is Christmassified, eg above and below, though I must go and find some holly from somewhere to make a tasteful arrangement for ...

The Christmas tree is up and decorated. The house is also more or less decorated, if you discount the empty cardboard boxes and plastic b...

I know I keep going on about this, but as I get older I become more and more aware of how things  last much longer than people do. Here, ...

Bloggy friends may remember that last month (16 November) I wrote about the indenture binding my great-grandfather, James Smith, as an a...

Another walk with the walking group, this time round and about North Berwick. You might not think that a seaside walk in Scotland in...

Granddaughter started piling up bricks. She got quite a high stack. And even higher. Ah, I thought: the simple pleasures of wat...