Creme de Cassis

Last year we had an abundance of blackcurrants in our little garden, and I mean an abundance! I spent hours stripping the small juicy berries of the bushes and it looked like they had barely been touched! Now, since I have been slowly adapting to the good life (and got a little bored with the…

Put your First Foot forward

Happy New Year!! I had a lovely evening here in Edinburgh bringing in the new year with some good friends, over tons of lovely food and the odd glass of vino.  We managed to leave the warmth of our flat and walk across to Inverleith Park to see the fireworks at Edinburgh Castle, which were…

Out with the old, in with the new

Normally I don’t bother with resolutions, partially because I am too lazy to keep them, or too disorganised really.  But this year I have decided I should set a few, if nothing else to make me do something, and posting them here means they are out in public, so… I really have to do them…