Tag: Pauline Cafferkey

If you don’t mind the cool air, this Easter weekend looks like being a cracker. The daffodils are still in their full glory, the whin is turning bright yellow and the birds are singing...

Harvest is always a telling time. It tells us what we’ve sown and how we, and the weather, have cared for it. This week a kind neighbour, who has an allotment, shared some of...

It’s so good to hear from my wildlife friends that they’ve seen 30 or 40 dolphins in the Firth of Forth in recent days.  They describe, with great excitement, how these large and friendly...

It’s unsettling, living in a leap year. And as we approach that extra day, February 29th, I feel a slight sea-sickness coming on.  Is the world really leaping  up and down, or is it...

We need to talk about Abigail. No, not my four year old grand-daughter, but the first “named” storm of the winter.  The Met Office has taken to naming our storms as they blow in,...

We are now into our political conference season which, like the Scottish harvest, comes a few weeks later than the UK conference season. But it’s still about gathering in the crops from the last...

 We are entering the season of storms.  Already a lively wind is blowing about the house as I write and the forecast for the weekend is for dark clouds to sweep across the sky at...