Monthly Archives: June 2009

Back garden

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The Borders

Visiting the Borders today. Long rolling hills instead of high, peaky mountains. Misty loves the adventure.

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Nice surprise

Had a busy day yesterday: Oban in the morning – including a superb lunch at Eusk, an “Italian” overlooking the bay. Him Behind the Wheel has coeliac disease and is limited to a strictly gluten free diet. We were pleasantly … Continue reading

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Oxeye daisies

I love the way the daisies colonise every available space.This is beside the Crinan Canal

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Gazebo

This is the initial putting up of the £11.99 gazebo. Misty thinks it is for her. The good news is that it works.

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Day Out

Misty is happy that we are going on an expedition: a day out in the campervan to Tarbert. To visit the optician. Perhaps we will see the dolphins.

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Wimbledon again

Best combination of weather yesterday: damp and wet here and sunny at Wimbledon. The grunting debate is a non-starter as far as I am concerned. I have never liked it, and sexist or not the women are definitely worse than … Continue reading

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Summer solstice

I rather like the idea that the summer solstice heralds the start of summer proper. It gets away from the feeling that we have reached the shortest night and that it is all downhill till Christmas. The summer is hidden … Continue reading

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Attitudes

The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n John Milton

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Changed times

In the many years when I worked in offices I coped with all sorts of changes in methods and tools. My first ever semi-mechanical calculator was a kind of complicated abacus which worked on a 3D type of mechanism. It … Continue reading

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