Join us, 9.30am (Cluny Hall) and 10.30am, Sunday 19th October, Morningside Parish Church. The theme – The Welfare of the City. Tea and coffee after the services in the St Matthew Hall. Church of Scotland

Word of the day: PSITHURISM - the sound of leaves rustling in the wind.

Chores done. Coffee and reading.

An afternoon off. Watching Annie Hall and remembering Diane Keaton.

As I contemplated heating the oven for Shepherds’ Pie followed by Eve’s Pudding, I knocked up a batch of Mary Berry’s ‘Very Best Scones’. They turned out deliciously light.

It’s extremely Monday out there today.

A meeting cancelled. Sausage and apple bake. 40 minutes from assembly to done.

Support the work of St Catharine’s Mercy Centre in Lauriston, Edinburgh, in the Day for the Poor collection at Mass on Sunday 9 November 2025.

Good to know.

Join us, 9.30am (Cluny Hall) and 10.30am, Sunday 26th October, Morningside Parish Church. The theme – God be merciful. Tea and coffee after the services in the St Matthew Hall. Church of Scotland

When British public transport works well it’s glorious. Left Linlithgow at 2pm by train. Up the windy steps at Waverley and on a busy at 2.20pm. Home at the manse 2.35pm. Some people won’t even have had their first sausage roll at the funeral purvey.

A Dame Muriel I’ve not read…hooked already.

For the splendid Heart and Soul band, raising money for Christian Aid. At Greenbank Parish Church. Church of Scotland

After a weekend of food restrictions because of work, a Monday evening chicken and ham with leeks pot pie.

Calvados stewed manse apples, with crème fraiche

Au reservoir, Miss Mapp.