And the home of the car. Service will resume shortly. Meanwhile, for your reading pleasure (or voyeuristic streak), I’ve put up a post on LA on the other blog.

Passport in hand, flight booked. I’m off in a week. Things are getting a bit harried. And as fate would have it, everything is happening around the Royal Highland Show weekend. I’m on bull-washing and bottom-wiping duty again, which will probably tire me out enough to sleep the entire 11 hour flight. (Sorry about the […]

Massive spoilers ahead. (I’ll stick a photo of Rose here in case anyone reading this hasn’t seen The Parting of the Ways yet. Tonight, the Doctor finds redemption. That was, for me, the highlight of tonight’s episode. After his display of hysterical hatred of the Geocomtex Dalek in the Dalek episode, we were made to […]

Floor 500, no longer walled with gold From the BBC’s Doctor Who site. Please do not swear. Spoilers ahead. Some random thoughts follow, which sorely need editing. What a super episode! The long build-up by RTD has really paid off. Great long game! We are reminded at the start that at the end of The […]

Capsized Originally uploaded by framboise. I was growing tired of looking at the grey-tinged spring blossom, so I thought I’d put up a more summery photo, which precipitated the change in colour scheme to reflect the sunny weather we’re experiencing at the moment (interspersed with rain, of course… this is scotland after all…). If the […]

The Curious Hamster has clearly been up late partially baking pastry (it’s description, not mine, and given that it is a hamster, naturally nocturnal anyway). And I’m wondering if there was something introspective in the Scottish air last night. [B*llsh*t On2] On one of our infrequent evening walks yesterday, I voiced aloud to P a […]

This could explain why I saw Natalie Portman at the Frida Kahlo exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London two weeks ago. And I subsequently sent my brother on a wild goose chase round the gallery. (Ha!)

A check of my Flickr statistics showed that my most viewed images weren’t even taken by me; they’re screenshots of Bad Wolf on the BBC’s Doctor Who site. I think I’m going to crawl in a small hole and bury my camera for good…

From BBC news: Baby step forward. (via Europhobia) It’s great that majority of the Swiss people have acknowledged the need for gay couples to have the same partnership rights as conventional married straight couples. [Rant on] I don’t personally know any gay couples with children, but from what I see of heterosexual couples with children […]

As previously threatened, a post on the Chelsea Flower Show. Almost two weeks late. (Ach, can you blame me? I’ve been busy…) Perhaps it was down to my crankiness from sitting indoors in a hot and unventilated room with ~300 other people for an entire afternoon when it was nice and sunny outside, but I […]