The fun starts Friday! Carol is buzzing around doing umpteen things at once – as always, I marvel at the woman’s energy. Brian & me are are far…

Not been posting much in here lately – way too much work. We’ve foolishly agreed to produce a desk diary version of the

Public transport up here can be somewhat ramshackle. “Charmingly ranshackle”Â? is how I usually describe it to people; like, for instance, last Saturday when I went to Castle…

We’ve had some fabulous weather this weekend – warm and sunny. This afternoon, me & Brian went for a walk in our favourite bit of woodland. The bluebells…

Hallo, back again. Really must try to update this thing more often. But I get so busy sometimes. Well, my birthday last week passed quietly enough – got…

…for not posting in such a long time. Been pretty busy this lazy month. Finally got Transit launched on Monday – you can admire it here. Getting it…

Today we had another wood-fest at the Steadings. It stopped raining this morning, so Graham went over with his chainsaw and cut up lots of the logs that…

Here in the Steadings, the afternoon was devoted to wood. First of all, Graham and John (the Steadings’ two “muscles”) chopped a pile of logs into fuel, which…

One of my little rituals is to walk up to the village every Sunday morning to buy a Sunday paper. This morning, as usual, I passed by the…