food of the day
melted ice-cream in a tub. it had a fantastically subtle green colouring which you can just about see in the photo.
August 2004
guess where we’ve been this weekend
that’s right, jane and i went to visit one of my favouritist dog signs.
plenty more pictures to follow (i took over 300, but won’t bore you with them all just yet). and we’ve still one more day of scottish photos first.
please do not drink the tap water
feel free to use the drinking fountain. just don’t drink the water.
i think the sign is deliberately up high so that kids don’t see it and get poisoned. that’s not very nice is it ?
me enjoying the scottish weather
we don’t have too many mirrors in our house. sometimes it’s best that way.
smarties in the countryside
i love smarties. their chocolate goodness enclosed in a crunchy shell. mmm. these were particularly welcome on a cold day halfway up a mountain.
esther and the armless chef
being a father of girls is a worry. especially with little plastic chaps like this about. his tongue was hanging out and everything. luckily esther wasn’t too impressed and the moment passed without trouble.
jane’s birthday
it was jane’s birthday when we were in scotland. i made jane a lovely cake. i pushed the candles in but kept it in is wrapper just in case jane didn’t like the cake.
luckily she did:
in the evening we went to a very posh restaurant:
it appeared that noel edmonds had got married there are some point. THAT’S how posh it was:
falkirk wheel
here’s a bizarre place. it’s the falkirk wheel. it’s a magic lifty thing to get canal boats from the canal at the top to the canal (and vice versa). it saves having a load of locks.
now, i may be wrong, but there seems little point in trying to speed up the flow of traffic on canals since it’s very charm is its slowness. and such a thoroughly modern solution is completely at odds with the historic nature of canal travel.
that aside, it is an amazing thing, especially the way the canal comes sweeping out of the countryside on a massive bridge:
looking along the top bit:
this chap was some kind of curator and had a fanastic posh english accent. a proper english gentleman:
