Feeling my age

Today’s guest picture comes from my sister Caroline. She and her husband have both been ill and one of her sons kindly drove them to an arboretum today, where she was impressed by the daffodils round a tree I had a very uneventful day today, with a lot of sitting around involved. Luckily, the weather

Watch the birdie

Today’s guest picture comes from my Lancashire correspondent Paul who is visiting the lake District again. He spotted a lake. We had another cold night here but, once again, the temperature stayed just high enough to avoid any great damage to the garden and I was able to trim the front hedge in pleasant sunshine

Acting my age

Today’s guest picture comes from our younger son Alistair. It shows a loaf made to their own ad hoc recipe by his wife and daughter, Clare and Matilda. He tells me that it tasted as good as it looks. I also made a loaf of bread today, but as it required the use of our

A pedal but no tootle

Today’s guest picture shows the sunny shore at East Wemyss this afternoon, with another example of the sort of weather that our older son Tony has to put up with all the time. We had a sunny day in Langholm too, but as it came with sub zero temperatures at breakfast time, we had to

Long time no sea

Today’s guest picture comes from my brother Andrew.  He is visiting Hull and met these Roman bakers. We had another sunny day today although it was markedly cooler in the morning, thanks perhaps to the north wind. The fine weather persuaded Mrs Tootlepedal that a cycle outing would be a good idea and after some