Coup de grâce

Today’s guest picture comes from our son Tony. It was taken on his recent visit to Langholm and shows an old chap with too much time on his hands tearing up a cardboard packet to go into the compost. We had a second fine, dry, warm day here, and very welcome it was too after

One to go

Today’s guest picture from our son Tony shows an East Wemyss stairway. Not the ‘stairway to heaven’ but the next best thing. We had a grey but dry day today and with the temperature well above freezing, it seemed like a good day for both a bicycle ride and putting another slab in place in

A 5% chance

Today’s guest picture comes from East Wemyss where our son Tony spotted a heron going somewhere on business. We had a day that was not quite as warm as yesterday but whichmanaged to be more muggy. I arranged to have coffee with Sandy and then went out into the garden to see how the flowers

Various transports

Today’s guest picture is the result of another visit to Edinburgh by Mrs Tootlepedal in her role as grandmother.  It shows Matilda being transported by a personal travel solution. We were all being transported today.  Mrs Tootlepedal was physically transported  by car and train to Edinburgh where she was spiritually transported with joy at seeing

Goodbye

This picture shows the only sun in the garden today. I had a rather sedentary day today.  It started with more conversation and coffee with our friend Richard before he left to do some more catching up in Edinburgh.  Even after he had left, the miserable weather kept me indoors and after lunch I had

In and out

Today’s picture is another of a really splendid set of Lake District pictures that my brother sent to me after his recent trip.  This shows Buttermere village taken from a hill that he was coming down. My longest excursion of the day was a walk up to the town to visit the exhibition of ‘art