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Meanderings: 19000 steps
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Friday, July 10, 2015. Yesterday we mostly went walking. In the morning we walked around the loch out the front of Paul and Carol's place. We were accompanied for part of the way by one of the local border collies who came to say hello and then came along just for fun. In the afternoon we went to a headland and walked through wildflower meadows and then back along the cliff tops. All in all yesterday my pedometer counted 19000 steps. It's just as well we don't have walking plans for today!
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Meanderings: February 2015
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Tuesday, February 24, 2015. A long weekend, just for me. It was quite a sunny weekend, and we had hoped to make further progress, but the wind was cold so we didn't spend too much time outside! This is how the dining room looks now:. Starting by taking down the rails and the frieze by the window:. The cat was deeply suspicious when we started shifting the furniture out the way! Potato and cheese cake with celeriac and polenta chips. Links to this post. Tuesday, February 17, 2015. They have ping pong tabl...
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Meanderings: August 2015
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Tuesday, August 25, 2015. Visiting Aussies (Part the Second). I was stood in the kitchen on Saturday evening watching a snow-capped mountain slowly make its way from the North towards our house, gradually obscuring the blue sky and sunshine. But we definitely got thunder and lightning and torrential rain and hailstones and a road that believed it was a wild river - and a wet and soggy cat who came in from somewhere at one of the moments when the storm had abated a bit. And we had a lovely time. The s...
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Meanderings: Eating from the garden and allotment
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Tuesday, August 11, 2015. Eating from the garden and allotment. Someone asked me the other day if we were eating from our garden and allotment yet this year. I was about to say that it hadn't been a very good year for home grown vegetables (which it hasn't) but then I stopped to think about what we are eating from the garden and allotment. It is actually quite a good variety. We have been eating:. Potatoes and onions which the Under Gardener dug up a few weeks ago. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Meanderings: June 2015
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Tuesday, June 30, 2015. End of last week. From my perspective, the rest of the week proceeded in a calm and orderly manner. There were, from my point of view, no excitements or alarms. All was well - apart from the fact that I need a new favourite pub. Mostly, over the past few days, the sun has shone and the weather has been balmy. Apart from Sunday when it poured more or less all day, until about 4 pm when it was much too late to do anything useful with the glorious sunshine! Links to this post. No tha...
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Meanderings: Tupton Parade and Carnival
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Monday, July 20, 2015. Tupton Parade and Carnival. It was the Tupton Parade and Carnival on Saturday. Tabitha, Gareth and Cally came over to watch the parade and visit the carnival. The Parade comes along Ankerbold Road and turns left onto Queen Victoria Road. You can see it from our drive, but you get a slightly better view if you go out and walk up a couple of metres. I think Cally was a bit startled by the loudness of the marching bands, but otherwise we enjoyed it a lot. It was the Chesterfield Carni...
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Meanderings: Christmas in July
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Tuesday, July 28, 2015. I haven't hosted a Christmas in July party since 2005 or so. I moved to summer afternoon tea parties in August instead (although I don't seem to have organised one for this year). I did notice that one of the Tupton pubs was having a Christmas in July party last Saturday but we had other plans so didn't investigate further. Thank you to Aidan, Simon and Freyja for a lovely evening. And we hope you will all be very happy in your lovely home. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Meanderings: Tramlines and Trams
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Monday, July 27, 2015. It was the annual Tramlines music festival in Sheffield this weekend just gone. The Builder and I did not go. Instead we followed our practice of recent years and had Cally with us while her father worked in the Green Room and Tabitha went out carousing. Anyway. Back to the weekend. On Saturday we dropped around to Freyja and Simon's new place and took them off to Costco for a little light (! We took her to the Tram Museum in Crich. We had ice cream, as promised. And on Sunday morn...
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Meanderings: Saturday and Sunday, and a quick visit to Monday
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Tuesday, July 14, 2015. Saturday and Sunday, and a quick visit to Monday. Saturday is the day that most people who are on holiday in Harris leave or arrive. Most of the leavers go out on the early ferry. Many of the arrivers come on the later ferry. This leaves quite a bit of the day when there are few holidaying people on the island. This makes the roads (which are seldom really, really busy) very quiet. Then we went to the Art Cafe in Skoon. We saw lots of wildlife while we were in Scotland. Otters...
