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    A Many Year Project

    by Lydia March 2, 2025

    Two of my sisters – Ginny and Diff – came down from Caithness this weekend, to help with various things. They made a serious start on stripping the textured wallpaper from the guest room, something that is going to be an ongoing project for some time, I suspect. There are some patches in the house – the stairs being the worst one – where it has clearly previously been deemed that to remove the paper was too hard a job, so it has just been plastered over. Naturally, the plaster is now falling off in chunks, aided by little fingers that can’t help themselves. As much as the work ahead of us is really only just beginning (I describe our very-much-loved family home as being a “many year project”), it felt good to be making a start on some of the comparatively frivolous improvements we’ve identified.

    The next morning, we set up some solar-powered lights in the pagoda in the garden, an endeavour which caused much hilarity. Meanwhile, Euan finally finished setting up the regulation size basketball ball net that he got for Christmas, while the girls ran round getting colder and colder in the bitter wind, but having a hilarious time switching between garden toys and sticks and shells.

    March is currently being lion-like rather than lamb-like, but it is exciting to be heading towards spring. There is much to do outside, and I can’t wait to carry on chipping away at it all.

    March 2, 2025
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    Gardening, At Last

    by Lydia February 14, 2025
    February 14, 2025

    There was a healthy layer of frost this morning but, delightfully, the sun was warm enough that I made it outside this lunchtime to make a start on the front …

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    Our First Anniversary

    by Lydia January 28, 2025
    January 28, 2025

    It is funny how storms mean something a bit different now, living in an old house which we are slowly bringing back to life as a long-term family home. Our …

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    And So To 2025

    by Lydia January 10, 2025
    January 10, 2025

    Christmas has now passed and January has come rushing at us thick and fast, but it was a marvellous first Christmas in our new home. There were day visits northward …

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    A First Christmas Eve

    by Lydia December 24, 2024
    December 24, 2024

    We and our house are still finding out about each other, getting used to our new relationship. But one thing I have been certain about for some time is that …

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    Our New Home

    by Lydia December 16, 2024
    December 16, 2024

    This update has taken about ten months longer to write than I thought it might. Life has been a tad hectic this year but, though it doesn’t promise to slow …

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    Stubble Fields and Smoke

    by Lydia November 19, 2023
    November 19, 2023

    Catching time to read and process some of the things I have saved over the last few mad, mad weeks. Months. Well, year, really. I love this sentence from my …

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    A Book of Bats

    by Lydia September 21, 2023
    September 21, 2023

    I am slowly resurfacing after being knocked for six by a particularly vicious bout of flu. Excepting childbirth, that’s the worse I’ve felt since I had Covid. Here’s a book …

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    A Fall in Time

    by Lydia September 14, 2023
    September 14, 2023

    Starting today, my brother will be recounting his time on his own on the West Coast of Scotland, referring to his photographs and journals from that time. “That night, as …

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    Cheeky Camper

    by Lydia September 11, 2023
    September 11, 2023

    Back from a weekend camping. Elfi’s first time in a tent! She loved it, as she does anything that’s outside – definitely an outdoors baby.

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