MABEL’S BLOG

MABEL’S BLOG

We love dogs and we are very happy to welcome friendly adult dogs and their owners.

Powdermills Bed and Breakfast in Inveraray is ideal for dogs. It has slate floors with rugs and direct access out into our secure 10-acre garden. We have established routes around the grounds that are perfect for an early morning or early evening walk with your dog.

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Speakers’ Corner – The Two-Bit Token

12 November 2023

‘You’re just another back of the bus boy,’ my old housemaster, Mr Porteous, would say, admonishing me for yet another misdemeanour.  Of course, he was right. I’d position myself at the back of the bus on any trip to and from school and on rugby trips.  That’s where the action was, and unbelievably, I liked […]

Sue and Johnny – Everything and Anything – Episode 40

6 November 2023

Speakers’ Corner – Never Unprepared

31 October 2023

My daughter Izzy never listens to the podcast.             ‘Dad, you just talk about the past all the time.’             ‘No, I don’t,’ I replied, trying not to show my disappointment, ‘but it’s just that I have a lifetime of experience to draw on.’             ‘Exactly,’ she laughed, ‘tales from the dark ages!’             Since […]

Sue and Johnny – Everything and Anything – Episode 39

29 October 2023

Speakers’ Corner – Weather Ramblings

29 October 2023

It’s thought that weather is an obsession of the British.  Their constant chat about weather: anticipating what it will bring today, checking TV and radio news channels for forecasts and warnings and looking at weather apps on our phones. My sister living in the northwest of England, a wet weather hotspot, said recently that she […]