trottyworld

It was a fine winter's day, one of the shortest of the year, which dawned frosty and cold. One of the features of living amongst the hil...

A new meaning for an everyday word - device : a thing made or adapted for a a particular purpose. Today the word tends to be used to mean po...

Continued from Sailing yet again...   Let me say up front here that anyone who says 'she's an old boat on an old trailer so what can...

Our leisure activities change over time. Up to about  a year ago I was looking forward to spending more time on the water, sailing on our b...

Some years ago, long before we bought our present house, the owners decided that it would be nice to create a level space at the rear of the...

One of the things that journalists seem to enjoy these days is writing a headline for an extreme weather event. But they don't stop ther...

First of all, a bit of translation. The language I grew up with, English, uses the noun ' job ' to describe two different things. On...

After our ' Hebridean Adventure ' the routine of 'normal' life hits home leaving us with mixed feelings. We settle back into...