Month: October 2024

The wandering mind* went up late because the day before that, when I should have been finishing a blog post, I suddenly discovered I was going to have visitors the afternoon of the next day.**  Visitors, what’s more, whom I’ve known nearly forever, but who haven’t been to Scotland since I moved up here, &…

Last night I had three sweet potatoes for supper.*  Eh?  I have a thing for sweet potatoes** & I eat a lot of them, but the theory is that I cut up a panful***, & this lasts me two or three days depending on what else is on my exotic & action-packed menu.†  However.  I…

Well I’ve finally turned the central heating on.*  It’s down in the low 40s** out there, & it was fifty freaking three in my bedroom***, & I’m a middle-class first-world little old lady, & 53 degrees† F is too cold for the room I get dressed in.††  It had slowly sunk down to 65/18 in…

. . . THIS IS NOT WHAT I HAD IN MIND. The day after I wrote the previous post, including telling my life to make a note that I wanted blog material*, Genghis & I were walking, or rather plunging & careering, across Strathspey** Park.  I think I had done my usual cack-handed version of…

This one is called Reading Reader Mail. . . . So the ME is still bashing me around some,* speaking of continuing series, although I hope most of the other series aren’t boring.   Also there’s an unnecessarily large amount of extraneous rubbish falling across my personal landscape that I can’t quite think how to turn…