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.

Rebranded

by admin - 17:51 on 04 January 2011

The eagle-eyed will have noticed that the blog has a new title. I'd been intending to change it for a while, as I've not been a lone bass player for some time, and the new year seemed an appropriate point for a new beginning.

Not that you'll see any difference in the content, as indicated by the fine portrait of The Rural Retreat's boss at the top of the page. Bess, Matchgirl and hungry pine martens will continue to feature heavily (not that Matchgirl's heavy, you understand) as will snappery, if I ever get the Pentax out again.

Thanks to Lynne who correctly identified our mystery visitors as redpolls. I had wondered, but the illustration in my Collins book of Scottish Birds left me unsure. Their return today was brief, but long enough for me to see the blush on their breast as well as their red poll. There was no time for snappery, though, or to decide whether they were common or lesser. I'll keep watching.

Another brief visitor was Mr Fixit, who overcame transport difficulties to reach the Retreat and restore our taps to full working order despite the eager attentions of would-be plumber's mate Matchgirl. Her disappointment when told that plumbery is just another job would have touched the hardest heart.

The latest Blurb statistics, which have become my daily reading, show that The Bumper Book of Black Isle Snappery has sold its first copy of 2011 and Spain has joined the list of countries in which the preview has been seen. Whether the two events are connected I can't say.

I've added the Google Translate button, which I'm sure you noticed, to celebrate our growing worldwide fame and ensure that readers in Vietnam and Finland can fully enjoy these words of wisdom. Or, possibly, just because I could. Turn the text into Chinese or Arabic and be amazed.

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