Alberto's Hutte

19th September 2026 (Saturday)     07.30 ....  It's a bright and breezy morning;  and, after a  good night's unbroken sleep, I feel  .... as bright and breezy as the weather!    Actually I'm ready for breakfast,.... and a cuppa.    Michael is going home today;  leaving me i/c.    He has organised plenty food, and done a lot of work around the house;  but I have no doubt I'll soon be back to my old dis organised routine.    Must 'go' , slight 'Flap On' this morning. 17.00   Michael is on his way home to Sunny Sussex this morning:  after a busy week at Ivy Cottage he'll be glad to get home for a rest:  w e arrived at Leven Station with about 10 minutes to spare, so I took today's photos at the Station.     Due to engineering work between Edinburgh and Newcastle, Michael has to take the Border Line from Edinburgh to Carlisle, then the West Coast Main line to Euston.  Th...

18th September 2026 (Friday)    14.00 ..... Having been to Sainsbury's to do the shopping .... I can say that we've been busy!    The shop was quieter than expected, at least the checkout's were;  but they did have a lot of them open.  Anyway the shopping has been done, and we got back to Ivy by 11.30.   Since then Michael has set up the 'crock pot' with a casserole.    Me? ..... I've been playing with old photographs. 16.00    Shopping must be hard work;  all I've done this afternoon the mornings dishes, catnap and watch some TV.    I beginning to feel more wide awake now;  and in the mood to do some 'computer stuff'. 18.30    The weather has deteriorated and we now have a dreich evening;  a nice evening for working on the computer.    Michael is busy in the kitchen;  the casserole is tantalising my nostrils..... and I am starting to fell hungry.     21.00 ...

17th September 2026 (Thursday)    10.15 .... It's a lovely morning;  with a few clouds scuttling across on the brisk NW wind, the forerunners of the showers that are forecast to come our way later.   Michael made a full English breakfast this morning so I won't need much in the way of food until dinner time.    My contribution to breakfast, apart from scoffing it, was doing the washing up.  16.00    I've been busy out in the Hutte;  no... not doing a Soduko;  taking photographs of wee golf clubs for my blog page.   There's always good light in The Hutte, that I can manipulate with the window blinds.  Anyway, they are alright, so I'll upload a photo later:  the kettle is 'on' 20.00      I am relying on a couple of showers  coming our way to water the flower tubs;  when I think about it we've had rain most nights, so the tubs are probably fine.    Actually they look good;...

16th September 2026 (Wednesday)     09.45 .... It's a lovely morning... and ... oops I need to switch on the washing machine... because it's a good drying day!   Apart from switching 'on' the washing machine, what is the plan for today?    Mostly checking paper work, including  'computer stuff'.   The weather forecast is good until later in the afternoon and overnight, when we could have showers.     Must 'go'.... 'Flap on', the kettle switch  needs some attention! 18.00    The sky is clouding over, and the air much chillier;  but I'm not complaining, because it has been sunny and warm up till now.    We've been busy with paperwork ... and computer stuff.     So it has been a satisfying day as far as work goes. 20.30    We haven't been anywhere today because of the 'paper work' that had to be done.    However  paper work had been done.    Michael is...

15th September 2026 (Tuesday)      The 15th September?.... that means 100 days to Christmas Day!   How time flies. Kinneuchar kirk this morning. 12.30   Michael has been busy fitting handrails  above the bath so that I have something to hold when stepping into the bath to have a shower.   Before doing the handrails, Michael had a quick trip up to Kinneuchar Kirk, but the light wasn't that good:  so I have used  one of the photographs we got yesterday.   It's actually turned out quiet legible.    Me?   I am have been doing computer 'stuff' some of the time,    Watching 'Taggart' some of the time;  and generally recovering after a busy day yesterday! 14.30    I've just found out that I forgot to 'publish' The Hutte  update that I did earlier.    Sorry aboot that!   I'm wide awake now!    We have a sunny and hot spell of weather just now;...

Main Street, Kinneuchar. 14th September 2026 (Monday)     10.15 .... We have a sunny and warm morning here in KY9.   And we had a wee bit of excitement;  a Speckled Wood butterfly in the kitchen.   It might have waited until I'd cleaned the windows!   Anyway it has been photographed, and released.   I saw it fluttering around the Hutte yesterday, but it never settled. 12.30    Michael and I have been up to Kinneuchar to take a few photographs from, and in, the kirkyard.    Including the headstone, erected by Jimmy Braid,  golfer, and 5 times winner of The Open, in Memory of his Father and Mother.  20.30      We have had a busy day!   Well, Michael has been busy;  he organised dinner, a casserole, in the Slow Cooker, before we went up to Kinneuchar on our mission for the morning:  and it tantalised us with hunger provoking aromas as soon as we got back to Ivy....