In this life

Grandson laughs. What's he looking at? A huge screen with an iguana (is it?) shooting its tongue out and catching a fly. Ye...

There were a couple of news stories today that intrigued me and possibly you too. The first one concerns Chris Huhne, the now former En...

Yesterday, Daughter 1's lovely in-laws were up for the weekend and we all went for lunch at the Flotterstone Inn (very nice food) and...

Email from Daughter 2: Hello, I thought you might like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=aTLySbGoMX0...

It's hard to let a couple of days go past without engineering a visit to Grandson, so today I went with Daughter 1 and him to the mus...

It's getting increasingly difficult...  ... to get a decent photo of the boy... ... at least with my phone camera, which ha...

We were going to walk along to the Dean Gallery this afternoon but the weather, having been fine all morning, turned wet and windy after ...

Yesterday we visited friends in Glasgow. Here we are driving past Kirk O' Shotts, which stands apparently isolated in the middle of a...

Why do I keep reading the title of the previous post as "The Giggling Tomato"? We haven't seen him today, which has made ...

  The Last Day. (Well, for the moment. I think and hope that our usefulness as babysitters is not yet over.) Grandson celebrated by bou...

  Tomorrow is Daughter 1's last day of work before having her baby and therefore our last day of being Grandson's childminders ...

  Today I: played with Mummy's old xylophone (but I  see it as a lorry really);     carried my two black cats from place to...

  Daughter 1 and Son-in-Law 1 bought Grandson his first pair of wellington boots, with the thought that he could walk in the snow or sp...

  I've just been with a friend to see "The Life of Pi". Other friends had assured me that it was "lovely" and ...