Britain is reputedly still a nation of animal lovers….(although the title also refers to a BBC children’s programme of the 1970s). The reason for this post is just to comment on some of the great animal sculptures around Edinburgh. Urban sculpture has been on the increase in Edinburgh over the last few years, but most …
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(Making sense of) life and work
A new departure this week: sat and read the Church of Scotland regular publication for its members, Life and Work. As Dan is set to continue working with the Scottish Bible Society on their website, and had made reference to this magazine, thought I’d have a look. One particular comment struck me from a column …
Book fair a go go
So, the latest Peebles book fair again, and a happy Saturday morning was spent by me and Dan, plus my parents, browsing a huge stock of second hand books. The proceeds go to a range of charities – even though last year’s fair was partially snowed off on the Sunday, they still raised £8000 over …
From soup to shining soup
Back to the (primeval) soup…here are the results of the next batches: – broccoli and Cheddar: a particularly fetching green, biggest thumbs up – curried parsnip: not as nice a colour, but very soothing – carrot and carroway: lovely colour, great smell while the seeds are cooking, great taste too – curried green lentil: yet …
Soup of the evening, beautiful soup
When I was still putting our news into yearly letters for Christmas time, I found myself wanting to categorise different years by activity: the year of the flat, the year of decorating, or whatever. I’m not sure whether it feels like that anymore, as certain tasks come round again, or get repeated. However, there is …