I forgot to post the other week, what with having to take to my sick bed and all, that I have been asked to be a director of the Food Link. I have never been a director of anything before and I feel foolishly chuffed. It is a non-profitmaking organisation where lots of local small producers (like herb growers, market gardeners, the crab man, the ( Read more... )

So ... there is a man in the hotel whom we suspect is the Scottish Tourist Board Inspector and everything is going slightly pear shaped ( Read more... )

My mother took the earwig to be healed today. Much to the consternation of her other grandparents who mistrust such new agey jiggery pokery and have been quietly but determinedly trying to reschedule the earwig's week so she wasn't available for her appointment. We think it's worth a go - the healer totally cured my mum's faulty thumb when she had ( Read more... )

Our wheelie bin, which we thought was at the bottom of the sea following the recent gales, has turned up safe and well in a neighbour's garden ( Read more... )

And inside ( Read more... )

We had a Fawlty Towers moment when we discovered the hamster had chewed his way out of his cage and set off on a voyage of discovery. The panic stations were panickier still because last week the pest control dude came and put down new boxes in all the kitchen and store rooms, so we were imagining poor Scooby gorging himself to death on rat poison ( Read more... )

I have been allocated a five minute slot at the computer with a queue of grumpy offspring fighting to leap into my seat the second I have finished.So I had better get cracking ( Read more... )

or whatever it is that makes sparklers smell so good ( Read more... )

Today I am doing festive Christmas flyers - my first foray into desktop publishing and really not bad for a first go, I think. But the printer is soooo sloooow so I am LJing at the same time to keep myself awake. If I try to do more than 6 copies at a time the paper misfeeds for some reason ( Read more... )

This is the first time I have lived in a place without street lighting (not having any streets is probably a huge contributary factor) and it does make a difference to the dark. It really does get pitch dark when there's no moon ( Read more... )