The shock of the new

Today’s guest picture is another from my friend Marjorie’s Highland jaunt.  She may have visited Dull but she had a far from dull time, as this shot of the sun behind the hills at Loch Rannoch shows. We did have a dull day here.  In fact it was so dull that when I pointed the

On strike

I am on strike and the camera has not come out today at all so there will be no guest picture, no FBotD, no gloomy fungus, nothing. The temperature was an eerily unseasonable 10° C, the wind was fierce and the sky so grey that drawing the curtains in the morning hardly made any difference

Troubled by the wind

Today’s guest picture comes from my Newcastle correspondent and shows her daughter Hannah taking part in the Newcastle Vamos festival celebrating Latino music.  What fun. The wind was all that was forecast today (40-50mph) and sometimes it felt as though it was even stronger than that and we had worries about trees in the garden

All hail

Today’s guest picture is a bit of a cheat as it is of a guest but not by a guest.  Standing beside Dropscone leaning on his carbon fibre machine is the minister, Scott posing with his very new and stylish Bianchi bike   He joined us for our morning run to Gair and back today and

Blown away

Today’s guest picture shows a statue of James Starley, described as the inventor of the bicycle, seen by my brother Andrew on a visit to Coventry.  There may be others who claim that distinction. The weather actually managed to take a turn for the worse today and as well as being very grey and rainy,

The birds and the bees

Today’s picture shows an enormous puddle outside our back door in the evening.  It just won’t stop raining. My paper gave us the weather stats for July today.  There was a new record low for sunshine in Scotland.  This was 48 hours for the whole month recorded at Eskdalemuir about 15 miles north of Langholm. 

Confused

Today’s picture is of a soggy rose in the morning which can’t quite cope with the wet. It was cloudy but warm so while Mrs Tootlepedal was probably sipping champagne for her breakfast as they do in the south of England, I had a plate of porridge and a gentle pedal with Dropscone.  I went

Weather beaten

Today’s picture shows the very small amount of me exposed to the cold once I am set up for cycling. The forecast was not great but it wasn’t too bad after breakfast so Dropscone appeared and we set off round the morning run.  It was quite breezy and a chilly 3° but we made good

Back to the usual routine

Today’s picture is of our end to end cycling guests. They will appear on the cycling page but they get a special mention here as they are spending their honeymoon cycling 1000 miles together.  They remained very cheerful in spite of the wet weather. Dropscone and I felt quite cheerful in spite of the rain