In this life

So life continues. The family were all here at the weekend: Daughter 2 was up from London with her bump (8 weeks to go); Son, Daughter-in...

Today was quite an ordinary day - Granddaughter-the-Elder and I went to the Botanics, as we often do - and yet I want to record it for my...

Granddaughter-the-Elder and I had a trip to the Botanics on Thursday. She seems quite interested in plants, unlike her brother. (Me: This...

We've just come back from house-swapping to York, which we've done before, with the same people. House-swapping is great in some...

It's been very changeable weather here: lovely one moment and wet the next. The children and I went to the Gallery of Modern Art and ...

  They're back. We went to Vogrie Park and slid on the slide. (Well, they did.) And bounced on the bouncy thing. And so on. ...

Ah, the days of idleness when the grandchildren aren't here... . It absolutely POURED on Saturday and Sunday (ah, the guilt when t...

The Edinburgh branch of offspring are away just now, which leaves us with spare time. We had a little trip to the Botanics, where the h...