Life In Close Quarters

This morning I was cleaning the kitchen, and Bob was keeping me company, reading aloud an essay by a travel writer named Rolf Potts. The story, Something Approaching Enlightenment, is about his travels to the Himalayan village of Kaza. He went to visit the Buddhist monasteries there during the

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Bagpiper at Blair Castle

Bob records the piper. We couldn't find our windscreen, so that's one of my socks on the recorder.

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Pic For The Day - Find Anything On eBay!

We spotted this boat in the Oban harbor. Skipper Ron said that it just went up for auction on eBay. Asking price: £500. He seemed to think that it was pretty funny. I don't know if it was the thought of buying a boat on eBay, or if it was the price tag that was making him laugh. I think it's a great looking boat. Skipper Ron would probably laugh at that too. 

A Guest Post From Mark Twain

The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him the cordial hand of fellowship and call him brother.
- Innocents Abroad

Tea At The Caledonian Hotel For Eleanor's Birthday

Yesterday was my 8th birthday. We went to Afternoon Tea at the Caledonian Hotel In Edinburgh. We saw two rainbows on the drive there!

The tea was so fun! They had a cake with

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