Try to spot the eyesore Look at the photo above and try to spot the eyesore. Yes, the electricity cables running across the North face of the house. Up here, SP Energy is responsible for the main electricity supply cables, although the actual contract work seems to be done by Scottish Power. The main advantage …
December 2018
Dumfries and Galloway does put me in mind of lines from Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: “Water, water every where //Nor any drop to drink.” Not that drinking water has been our problem, at least since we bought a Brita water filter to make the tea scum-free and palatable. Our first problem was …
September 2018
In the last newsletter, I was rejoicing about acquiring a landline and internet. However, the landline and internet lasted about a week and then both crashed. A BT engineer appeared (on time) and after some hours concluded that the fault lay in the wiring serving a multiplicity of phone points around the house, but as …
June 2018
Today marks two months since Arbigland House became ours. It also marks our breakthrough to the outside world with a BT landline and an internet of sorts. I will miss walking over to the little museum at John Paul Jones’ birthplace (JPJ being the “Father of the US Navy”) or driving down to the “Steamboat …