Flanders field

Transport for London – Congestion Zone and Low Emission Zone

Travelling thru London by car is exciting but challenging but negotiating the Transport for London’s website for Congestion Charging is down right hairy. We travelled into London by car outside the Congestion Zone (which is mainly the tourist part of London) but when we got home a day later – decided to put our number […]

Oh no … pussy cat

Discovered my little water vole i had made, tossed into a corner looking like it had gone thru 10 rounds with something a lot bigger .. it is now recovered but our Fluf didnt say a word.

Lake

Robin Williams – Interview with Johnny Carson

Little rude, but very funny – miss his crazy humour

Eastern Minimalism — Life: A Scot in Norway

‘Japandi design and eastern philosophies like Wabi-Sabi and the rugged cross cultural lifestyle of a Scott adapting tot he Norwegian wilderness. marries the Zen-like serenity of Eastern restraint with the cozy, weather-hardened traditions of both Scotland and Norway’.

Fluffy and the Advent Ring

Band of brothers

Yesteday morning hadnt looked out of the window until our neighbour knocking on the door to ask me if i had seen what was in our garden – a small flock of nine Suffolk sheep, contentedly grazing on everything. It looked very peaceful. Wish they were mine. Spent most of the day being […]

Its been a funny few days…

Beginning with our car overheating on the motorway because some small thermostat in the engine failed and knocked out the fan – so the dashboard went bright red with warning lights saying the engine was failing and the garage where we were recovered to – changed their mind and decided not to fix it – […]

Avoca – Spectrum Cashmere Scarf in Browns… Its Christmas

Very, very soft – Spectrum Cashmere Scarf – in Browns – available from http://www.honeybeeswax.com

A-Z of Winter in Scotland

A to Z of Winter in Scotland

Blaa — Making memories – Inesemjphotography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: A blaa /blæ/ is a doughy, white bread bun (roll) speciality; particularly associated with Waterford, Ireland… 12,000 blaas are sold each day. There are four bakeries making blaas, two of them in Waterford city – Hickey’s Bakery, and M & D Bakery. The Waterford blaa has been around three hundred […]

Red Leaves

Ibiza Sunrise

Parmesan and Poppy seed Lollipops – Lorraine Pascale

How to make

Sculpture – Seal – Baby Seal – Selkie – Fairy Tale – Sea – Jouku

from SmallWoollyElephant

John Lewis Christmas 2016 – Buster The Boxer

European Parliament considers plan to let individual Brits opt-in to keep their EU citizenship – Amendment 882

“The European Parliament is to consider a plan that would allow British citizens to opt-in and keep their European Union citizenship – and its associated benefits – once the UK leaves the EU. The proposal, which has been put before a parliamentary committee as an amendment, would grant the citizens of former member states the […]

Our Kenny making a brief appearance

The thing is Elections are every 4 or 5 years but Brexit could be for a lifetime “The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, ‘Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses……’ Robin Williams

Before and after Brexit

“The maker of Toblerone has increased the gap between peaks – another Brexit-inspired food catastrophe. Mondelez told the BBC: “This change wasn’t done as a result of Brexit.” One of many food producers which have been forced to increase their prices as a result of turmoil in the exchange rate of the pound, with Marmite-owner […]