The Soaplady

I don’t think I’ve ever been as glad to spend christmas at home, here in Breasclete, as I am this year …
My absence at family celebrations on the mainland was the result of a decision taken way before the weather became cold and the snow started to fall - more due to extraneous factors, and [...]

 
Well, it’s a lovely crisp fresh sunny day here in Breasclete, although the temperature is definitely cold, and the roads were suicidally icy this morning when Mindy and I went for our walk around Callanish …
 
I desperately feel that I should be doing something ‘outside-ish’, like hanging out the washing, or closing down the garden [...]

 
My mum was the eldest daughter of a well-to-do family in Grimsby.
At the age of 15, she took up a scholarship to the local Grammar school, on the basis of her own talents. This was a big deal in those days …
Having finished secondary education, she then sublimated her own future within the future which [...]

 
My little east indian black ducklings have grown, and are now out in the garden, their feathers being fully through, and their little chests all waterproof and springy …
 
 
They are so *loud* … especially at feeding-time when they surround me and quack as if it were their last breath, getting it all off their springy [...]

 
There is a new business start-up in Breasclete which is already starting to pick up custom all over the island: my friend and neighbour Karin and her Company
Clean Squad …!
 
 
Karin is naturally-endowed with enthusiasm, vigour and ebullience, and is that particular treasure of womankind who *enjoys* ironing …!  Imagine it …!
 
Karin also offers all the services usually performed [...]

 
I should be working …
however, the need to express myself, properly, has brought me here, to my PC …
 
I am truly *glad* for all of those whose lives have been made easier by Sunday sailings - my own sister will be coming here on the sunday ferry soon, and I shall be so [...]

 
No pictures today - just an account of the most delicious breakfast I’ve had in many months …
 
Two Stag bakeries spiced fruit buns, sliced in half and spread with butter, then gently heated for 10 seconds in the microwave until just warm, the butter softly melting inside, accompanied by a whole punnet of fresh, plump, [...]

 
Welcome to the duckling pleasuredrome …!
 
oh what fun we can have inside a roll of fencing wire, fortified with duckling mesh …!
 
My babies go out for an airing most afternoons, and come back in absolutely worn out … Most times they are watched over by the muscovy duck contingent, as in the picture …
 
But mostly, [...]

 
Feast your eyes on the latest additions to the Soaplady’s menagerie …
 
 
These are four of Fred’s black east indian ducklings … I believe their father was Mr Quack, and their mother was Crispy … They made the strange journey from Aird to Breasclete on Sunday afternoon, and are still settling into their sunny [...]

 
I had a really busy day in the shop today, and didn’t really feel like traipsing into town for shopping afterwards, so decided not to do shopping this week, which left me with the question of where to walk Mindy … It only took a small effort of will and a suppressing of the cost [...]