View from the Potting Shed

The photograph above represents an artist’s impression of how it feels to be living inside my head just now.
My throat hurts, my eyes hurt, I sound as though I’ve had a series of voice coaching lessons from both ‘Whispering’ Bob Harris and Leonard Cohen, and now I’m dizzy.
I’m off work today to recover. A […]

Summary: Jane returned home from Fort William this evening — where she’d stayed in a B&B for only 10 minutes, for £30.00, before turning around and driving back to Cellardyke. She arrived around 10:45, just in time for us to take our cat Spot to the vets as an emergency.
What a week! First the upset […]

It’s 05:21, I’ve been awake since 03:45, and I’ve got a cold. Bah!

Today is the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on America. I thought it would be interesting to look back at what I wrote in my journal on that day.
The most outrageous thing happened today. I was visiting MC (her mother had died) when her son D came in with news about the World Trade […]

We were so close, but we lost the house. We were told that it was ours subject to their financial team sorting things out and then 20 mins later we’d lost it because someone else walked in and bought it outright.
More details to follow but we are gutted.

Well, today we certainly viewed some houses. ‘We’ being Jane, myself and our neighbour Yvonne, whom we introduced as our Interior Designer.
It was actually a joke, but the lady showing us around three of the five properties must have believed me because she kept asking Yvonne’s opinion on what she would recommend in terms […]

Following a brief hiatus (of 24 hours) on the house-hunting front we’re well and truly back on the hunt this afternoon with no fewer than FIVE house viewings lined up. This week were are been mostly looking for houses in St Monans, Pittenweem, Anstruther and Cellardyke.