South Sea Island Kitties

This was all so before my time, in kitty terms it is purractically Purrehistoric… Long ago and far away, in a land where the trees never shed their leaves, where the snow never falls and the rain is so warm it’s like taking a shower with your clothes on, there lived and became a small [...]

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Autumn Ramblings

This is a gentle blog: there will be no terrifying things, no horrifying things and no wee corpses. that’s not to say there haven’t been any, just that this is an Autumn Ramble, meant to sooth, calm and relax the viewer. No snoozing at the back there! So, anyway, I set off on a ramble [...]

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The Cat That Walked…

‘Hear and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became…the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him.’ As that very Great of writers, Mr Rudyard Kipling, said. But…sometimes, what with centuries of domestication and a Purrticular Attachment, you will find [...]

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Small Gardens of Falkland

Exhaustion is settin’ in…my wee paws are tippy-tappied into calluses with all this bloggin’. I think I may be suffering from blogghorrea. If there is a cure, someone tell me quick, or it may be a one-way ticket to Liff for KC! So, anyway…let me take you down/’cause I’m going to/Falkland in Fife/everything’s real and [...]

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Takin’ a Walk On The Wild Side with…Paddy-the-Dug.

That Jeelie, she’s just moitherin‘ me to put her Pride&Joy into my blog again, and it a mere dug too! Well, don’t say I’m not good to you is all. Bloody dugs comin’ in here and takin’ up purrecious space…mutter, mutter, mutt… So anyway, there he goes, off into Butterfly Heaven, trot-trot-trot, through the Meadowsweet, [...]

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Oh, Heaven is a place on Earth…

…brought to us by the St Andrews Preservation Trust Limited – Hidden Gardens of St Andrews 2010. The pu’s, accompanied by Ancient Australian Friend, followed the Trust’s map around 11 of 12 gardens on Sunday, in purrfect weather. No thanks to the Tourist Office, who, having run out of tickets, were unhelpful in the extreme, [...]

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Cambo Magic

It may be that there are hordes of fans out there just awaiting a Pond Update with bated breath. But just in case there aren’t, here’s something completely different. Before we sank into a north-wind/volcano induced state of semi-freddo huddled-around-the-humming-radiator-ness, I sent the parental units off for a prowl around Cambo Gardens, not far from [...]

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Crail: Small Gardens in The Burgh

One of the many wonderful things about our new Kingdom, apart from vertical trees over 12′ tall, sunshine, Sainsbury’s, the Fife Coastal Path and sunshine – sorry I may have mentioned sunshine before…we’re not used to it you know – is the glorious Scotland’s Gardens Scheme, whose bible is The Yellow Book. The Yellow Book [...]

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