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The book sales via the Amazon Associates programme have slowed down slightly. Three a week seems to be the average. But there is still a degree of excitement in wrapping the book, posting it off and waiting for the earnings … Continue reading →

The water came back o­n after lunch. Twenty minutes later the electricity went off. So I gave up and went to the metropolis. Oban in other words…….. Everything now seems to be working…..so I can get clean!

So which is more worthy of note – the stag browsing the leaves off a young tree just outside the garden, or the fact that we have no water supply? The stag has now gone and the water has not … Continue reading →

So this is what retirement is all about…..

This is a story about a sleepy cat See the picture.  He isn't really asleep!

Inert and limp it layalmost as if sleeping.But no breath and no warmth,obscene almost in its brilliant green and yellowdashed against the dark brown earth…… A siskin, having tried to fly into the window. Looks as if I may have … Continue reading →

The Danish philosopher Kierkegaard wrote the following prayer ….. Father in heaven, when the thought of you wakes in our hearts,let it not wake like a frightened birdthat flies about in dismay,but like a child waking from its sleepwith a … Continue reading →

It has been mainly a damp week in Dalamory.  a gale past through in the night, but more is forecast for the next few days, and guess who is sailing up to the Western Isles in the coming week. No … Continue reading →

I'm into reading anything lying around at the moment, so am two thirds of the way through a fascinating novel about the B17 Flying Fortress bombers of World War II. It has been making me think of all the people … Continue reading →

Talking of Bambi……… As a 3 or 4 year old my mother took me to see the Disney Film. When Bambi got trapped in the forest fire and his mother was killed, I howled the place down and had to … Continue reading →