View from the Potting Shed

So there we were — Jane, Spot and myself — sitting in the living room watching a repeat of Doctor Who on the electric television while eating dinner of a nice Madras curry (Spot wasn’t eating his bowl of curry for some reason) when all of a sudden there was an ALMIGHTY crash and everything™ […]

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 […]

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.

Just back in from an evening with the newly-formed Toft Terrace Friday Night Games Evening Collective — our inaugural meeting was over a lasagne and game of The Really Nasty Horse Racing Game last Friday.
This evening — after Jane and I managed to blag two bowls of home-made lasagne from our neighbours (and delicious it […]

The image above — if you can make it out — represents one of the draft ideas that we had for our wee holiday cottage Kadesh had we been able to extend it. This morning, however, we discovered fairly conclusively that extending it will be nigh on impossible for us. Not because of […]

Jane and I have just returned home, having been all the way next door for the evening. We held a dinner party to which we invited a couple of our neighbour couples to celebrate the repossession (by us) of our cottage, Kadesh.
Because this afternoon the last family to have booked Kadesh left, and left us […]

Hola. El escape del agua ha estado fijado. Sin embargo, el fuego en la cocina ahora está roto, así que la calefacción central ahora no trabajará. Es importante que usted no utiliza el fuego. Hay agua caliente. Gracias por ser paciente. Estamos apesadumbrados para cualquier inconveniencia causada. Sinceramente, Gareth y Jane Saunders
That’s the note that […]