Smoke on the water

Well, you’ll not find it in the pub anymore, anyway.
In response to Jean’s comment. We appear to have survived the first few days of the Scotland-wide ban on smoking in substantially-enclosed public places. There is a great deal of bad feeling locally about the ban, but fortunately for us, it appears [...]

Sock yarn

I am not a happy camper. I bought one ball of Sirdar’s Town and Country sock yarn from the local shop, just to try.
I am very very glad I only bought one ball of the colour “Volcano”. I can’t show you a photo, as the camera is still on strike, but [...]

Schadenfreude

We (Scotland) beat Italy in Rome yesterday. It was great. A close game, with lots of clever tactics – some of which even paid off. Then Ireland beat England in London. That was just brilliant. My barmaid, who generally doesn’t see the point of rugby, was engrossed, and the rest [...]

I’m impressed

Very impressed indeed, by B.L Joshi, which is a fabric shop in Wembley which does mail order (important when you live in mamba country). I phoned yesterday to ask them how I’d go about getting a price list, and what to do about samples. Today, I received a fat parcel with a personal [...]

Discovery

A blog I’ve started reading recently, is Musings from the Merse – a writer in Hutton, Berwickshire (not Cumbria, sorry!)
The fire safety risk assessment proceeds at glacial pace (not perhaps the best of analogies – more like a damp fuse….) not helped by the absence of our cleaner this week. Compassionate leave, for [...]

I hate it

when I’m proved right. At least with regard to the weather.
It’s not bad here in Jed: a little light sleet and not even cold enough to need gloves. Bonchester, Penicuik, Peebles, the Carter Bar & Soutra are all bad, and our workmen guests have very sensibly come back to the hotel and gone [...]

Spring

Well, sort-of. The air has lost its chill, and there is a lovely damp-earth-and-growing sort of smell as I walk around the town today. One of the benefits of living where we do is the lack of pollution – there is lichen growing on trees and paving right in the town centre. [...]

Blech!

The most recent Interweave Knits magazine has just arrived, and while there is much to peruse, first impressions are less than stellar Mar has written a wonderful ode to bobbles, and my reaction to the cover is rather similar, if a bit shorter.
Having said that, the offerings within the UK are much much less inspiring. [...]

I try to take one day at a time….

but lately several have attacked me at once!
WorkThank you Jean and Dawn for your comments on the website. As an ex mac-user and now linux user (under protest) I’m very aware of the trouble that bells-and-whistles can cause, so it’s good to know that the site works on more than just my PC.
PubTonight, for [...]

Website design

As you may have noticed, the knitting has been a bit thin on the ground recently. I have, however, finally completed the rewrite of the hotel website and would very much appreciate any feedback, advice, whatever, that you see fit to provide.
Aside from that, my cleaner has been off sick, as has one of [...]