Leya is asking us for the year 2018 in review and following my blog change I wish to reflect on my last year’s blog and choose some of my favourite moments, because what else are photos if not captured moments for (relative) eternity?

I had fun going through my previous blog to select some of the posts and photos that I’d like you to see (again), but when I got around setting up this post, I got frustrated with technicalities. I don’t like this new editor and my new theme has much fewer options than I’m used to.

I don’t even know how to change the green colour of the links that lead to posts, so believe me when I tell you, there IS a caption under every photo with the working link, it’s just that it’s darn dark green. Sounds like my doing, I like green. I just don’t…

We moved
into our new house in September. It is
the first time I have lived in a new build, and some things have been a bit of
a learning curve! It is a
wheelchair-friendly bungalow, with a wet room as well as a bathroom.

It has triple
glazing. If you have ever lived in a
house where the curtains swung every time we had a bit of a blow, and where you
are paying 15% of your income in electricity and still feeling cold, then you
will know the joy that small sentence gives!
Here we are actually warm!

As it is a
Housing Association house, we had no time to move in gradually. Boxes were filled PDQ and my wonderful carer,
Michael, took lots over and filled the kitchen cupboards before the removal van
day. But we still had loads of bits and
pieces.

The dogs
took it…

Hello everyone, happy new year and all that jazz.. today I thought I would show you something I’ve started to do with some of my vintage yokes which is to lower the neck. Traditional Shetland yoke jumpers have not only a high neck but it can be quite a deep rib and its also quite often doubled over. Sometimes I really don’t mind it but other times its just too high and too tight. So rather than leaving them languishing in my collection, I have started lowering them and I do wear them much more often.

I got a yoke in the charity shop the other week and thought I would photograph some of the steps to show you what I did and show some of the others I’ve done it to as well. You can see the doubled over neck here:

As we do in Shetland cuffs are very…

Eilidh, my
sweetie wheatie, is a stubborn and determined little baggage! She was the smallest of the litter, but the
first to have both ears up. So I never
knew her with her ears down.

Magnus, on
the other hand, spent the first few months with me with one ear up and one ear
down! They say that if a Scottie’s ears
are not up by the time they are 5 months old they will never go up. Magnus was 6 months old before his second one
went up!

Both dogs
were unaffected by the cold and the wet, and spent hours rushing round the
garden, pausing occasionally to take stock.
They are both diggers, but it shows more on Eilidh….

Then came
the snow – something they both LOVED!
They took every opportunity to get wet and dirty, then they would crash
out on the sofa.

Both dogs
learnt…