Monthly Archives: March 2019

  1. Sunday Lunch and Visitors – Floral Gift Leaves Us in a Quandary

    Sunday Lunch and Visitors –

    Floral Gift Leaves Us in a Quandary

    I'll light the fire, you place the flowers in the vase that you bought today.

    Staring at the fire for hours and hours while I listen to you

                                                                                              Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

    Well we are really in the midst of spring. We had visitors for lunch and we...

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  2. Spring Has Sprung the Sap Has Ris – I Wonder Where the Birdies Is?

    Spring Has Sprung the Sap Has Ris –

    I Wonder Where the Birdies Is? (Ogden Nash)

    Well it is definitely batten down the hatches time here on the coast, the momentary warm weather we had is long gone and maybe that was the summer that never was. You never know these days. I’ve already driven around fallen trees in the road and spent the morning moving my shrubs in planters upright. These are heavy...

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  3. Barrelling Their Way to Success- First Ever Female Whisky Apprentices

    Barrelling Their Way to Success-

    First Ever Female Whisky Apprentices

    Now regular readers will know that I am partial to a dram and so I am always interested in news from the industry that produces the nectar. And I am pleased also that the industry is embracing our 21st century with female apprentices being accepted into that male bastion of coopering, barrel making to you and me. Two women have...

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  4. The Fashion Police of North Lanarkshire – Cops Pullover

    The Fashion Police of North Lanarkshire –

    Cops Pullover

    No we have all been told to pull our socks up and there are bars where they will refuse you entry if you are wearing jeans, or look like you have come straight off the building site, but not many people have been pulled over by the police to set you straight about your fashion sense. But in North Lanarkshire Police Scotland has a new job as the...

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