Fixing the decking

I am feeling almost positively handy!

 

After 3 visits, and some major help from Alison, we have put the decking back where it was last year. Are flares fashionable again?

So just need a wee railing to keep us safe, and the job is done.

I had to come home for a sleep after all that!

Back to Crail

Back to Crail for some minor repairs and a tidy up.  The best day of the year so far. You can just see the Isle of May behind the cottage roof.  The view from the top of the stairs is better.

Today I burnt the honey

 

The Microwave is a fickle mistress. Sometimes she is great: warming up coffee if left too long, cooking potatoes or sprouts at Christmas,  generally helping with some of the easy jobs in the kitchen.  Today however, I only wanted the honey to come out of the honey-thing, and only warmed it for 30 seconds.....

O dear!

Making sausage rolls after midnight

 

I was encouraged by the demure chef (((( demure chef )))) to try using the oven. I had acquired some pastry, and had bought some discounted sausagemeat from a local supermarket.  All I had to do was combine 2 ingredients.  Roll out the pastry, and roll out the sausagemeat,then put 1 inside the other.

They wouldn't fit in the tin.

New Year's Day - Look Aboot Ye

 The mist was forming over the weir

There was also a big bird (eagle / heron / albatross / chicken) but it didn't want to stay for the camera.

999 to go

Nearing the end of the year, and Shona has decided that I need to focus on the good things in life, 

and so my quest for 2013 might well include hunting down and tasting some of the contents of this book.

Happy New Year - Thanks for sticking with me in the last 12 months.

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I need a way of remembering the wine I like.

So here it is.

Take it or leave it.

Pumpkin carving for Christmas - Whatever next?

I was trying to carve a carol-singing snowman.  You be the judge!

I had bought the pumpkin in good time for Hallowe'en and it was still in good nick.