I am probably going to regret this….

Today I ordered 10 metres of workwear twill in ‘cypress green’ to recover some chairs for the less-formal breakfast/dining room on the ground floor of the hotel. The plan is to lift the carpet, paint the floorboards, and offer it as a place for families to eat where there won’t be constant tutting from guests [...]

Grumpy sod

That we me yesterday, so I was unceremoniously kicked out and told to have a day off.
I went to Melrose, and found some lovely quilting cottons in a more-than-half-price sale at The Fabric Shop as well as lemon cake and tea at Papa Jacks.  I had lunch at a place which will remain nameless: perfectly [...]

On a grey day

It’s lovely to find a post full of spring.

Unexpected consequences

The course I’m studying is supposed to enable me to return to the world of paid employment in Science.  What it’s actually doing is making me think very hard about the position of women in society, and the whole feminist idea.  Like many my age, I suspect, I had thought that feminism had fought and [...]

Jed in the spring

Well, almost.  I went for a walk along the riverside on Sunday afternoon in between the rain showers and took my camera with me for company.
The trees are still bare on the skyline above the Headrig:

but the crocus carpet around a boarded up house on the Bongate is stunning!

On my way down the river I [...]

Committed

According to the UK govt., that’s what they are about basic science and research:
The Government’s long term vision, set out in the Ten Year Science & Innovation Investment Framework, is to make Britain one of the best places in the world for science, research and innovation – the successful exploitation of new ideas incorporating [...]