No entry

This may or may not work. We've hauled up the fence and added a bit of barbed wire across the top. And I do feel mean, especially since she stood on the other side looking hurt and with an expression that suggested she thought I had been her friend, and more, that she had been mine. The thing is she's eating everything, including the trees we planted last spring. I've told her she can come in again in the Autumn when there is lots of tidying up to be done and we need a super efficient grass cutter.
I won't be in the least bit surprised if she's back in the garden in the morning. She spent a long time this afternoon   checking the fence for weaknesses, she tried a jump, but couldn't quite gain the height she needed.  I have a feeling though that she isn't  going to let a bit of silly old fence and some barbed wire put her off!

All things orange

A big beautiful sunrise. It appeared this morning, almost unnoticed, until, out of the corner of my eye I spotted

it and watched as it unfolded changed and eventually

flooded in through the window and settled on my brand  new cushion cover! My first ever Etsy buy!
That isn't a man behind the settee, it's a poster waiting to go on the wall

I love it. A Swedish fabric made into a cushion cover by a  lady who lives in America

now sits (after a few clicks on the keyboard)  and soaks up the early morning sun in our half  finished half Scandinavian house in the Scottish Highlands!

Family and friends

My favourite beach

Family and friends are staying this week and on the day without rain, sleet, or snow we went walking

not far, but far enough for a little boy whose boots are slightly too big and whose mittens don't stay on

 grandads understand these things.

nobody else seemed to be out taking the air

which, though very beautiful was very cold

time for tea

we'll come back another day

Are you sitting comfortably?

We've been on a mission

We left early in the morning as the sun was rising - actually that's rather late here!

and drove and drove down through the Scottish countryside

which is beautiful

and a little bit snowy in places

Nearly there, The lovely forth bridge over the firth looks magnificent in the sun and in a few miles we will have reached

 our 'local' Ikea on the outskirts of Edinburgh Just 220 miles from where we live

Got it! I did check there was one in store, but you never know.

now we must drive 220 miles home again

Will it fit in the house?

It's easy to push down the drive in the snow

after lots of this

and one or two adjustments with the saw!

 and hundreds of miles in the car we have a new settee or is it a sofa? I don't know the difference

but I like it and now I think I may go and sit down!

I wonder.....

'Who Me?' The large ball of knitting wool glances over in my direction

'What Bay Trees?'