Scotland In Autumn

Posted By on 27th September 2024

Well I’ve been in Scotland again for my second visit of the year, and I have to say the weather was much better than in June.

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Scotland In Spring!

Posted By on 13th June 2024

Well, it’s that time of year again, and I’ve been to Scotland to visit my sister and her husband, first of the year.

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Skye

Posted By on 2nd June 2024

In July 2010, somewhere in Scotland, a litter of labrador puppies was born. Several weeks later my sister and her husband, who were looking to get 2 dogs, went to see them.

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R.I.P. Millie

Posted By on 8th January 2024

Yesterday my sister and her husband had to say goodbye to their oldest sheep Millie, following a suspected stroke.

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Where Am I ?

Posted By on 23rd August 2023

A few weeks ago I wrote about how I’ve become a volunteer for a local hedgehog rescue charity, ‘Shelley Hedgehogs’. If you’re interested in reading about their work I can recommend their Facebook page, which is updated regularly with photos and progress reports.

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Lacerta Vivipara Flexilis

Posted By on 27th June 2023

As a regular gardener I have dug up a few ‘interesting’ things over the years.

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It’s Only Been 69 Years!

Posted By on 15th June 2023

No, not since my last post, though I accept I have been absent for a while, but in fact 69 years is how long it’s taken me to see a fox!

Hard to believe I know, particularly given where I’ve lived in the last 25 years, but there we are. (more…)

And Then There Was One

Posted By on 1st November 2022

When I moved here a little over 2 years ago I had 3 cats.

Poppy, Grayson and Suki.

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Scotland

Posted By on 21st September 2022

I’ve been to Scotland again, sadly I arrived on the day the Queen passed away, which put a bit of a damper on things.

However, we did go to lots of lovely places, and the weather was kind to us too.

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Mighty Oaks From Little Acorns Grow

Posted By on 1st July 2022

It’s a little-known fact that my brother-in-law, Scottish Graham, a Dewsbury lad born and bred, once had a conversation with Betty Boothroyd in a hairdressers whilst she was having her hair done.

Baroness Boothroyd as she is now has always fascinated me, moving as she did from humble beginnings in a Yorkshire market town to Speaker of the House of Commons and ultimately a member of the House of Lords, having even been a Tiller Girl for a short time along the way.

She also has great hair.

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