Happily Ever After
Life in The Rural Retreat with a beautiful wife, three cats, garden wildlife, a camera, a computer – and increasing amounts about running
Earlier posts can be found on Adventures of a Lone Bass Player, where this blog began life. Recent entries can be found here.
Off To A Quiet Start
by Russell Turner - 14:50 on 07 January 2017
The Rural Retreat has enjoyed a quiet start to 2017 with little to report. Cats continue to ignore the Christmas tree, which has stayed up longer than tradition dictates because Matchgirl is keen to make the most of its unexpected survival. The festive foliage will be packed away tomorrow, before she flies away to Shetland and work begins again.
Mine has already begun, in a small way, with new year Chatterbox admin plus work on a blog site for a teenager bodybuilder who’s keen to share diet and fitness tips. Matchgirl will be hooked. I’ll also shortly begin setting out another book – as typesetter and designer rather than publisher – for Pauline Mackay, author of the Wee MacNessie children’s series. It’s a new project, currently a secret, but she plans to print in February so it won’t be a secret for long.
Morning Has Broken - Rick Wakeman
More excitingly, today the cut price rail tickets went on sale for the dates of my trip to Glasgow and Edinburgh to see Rick Wakeman and pals. Booking them well ahead means a cost of just £4 (including a further 20% discount from online Club 50) from Inverness to Edinburgh, which would barely buy the petrol for thirty miles on the road, and same again for Glasgow to Inverness. It makes £6.40 each way from Dingwall to Inverness and £10.10 from Edinburgh to Glasgow look a bit on the pricey side. And Rick’s new solo album, Piano Portraits, is out next week. Can’t wait.
The Pentax has made only a brief appearance this year, and its subject is unsurprising. Those cats get everywhere.
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