Rab’s new ‘toy’ comes with all the tools anyone needs but still can’t conquer self-assembly kits
This boy has a new toy. You’ll be horrified when I tell you bluntly what it is. For it is a knife.
Robert McNeil
Forget Scandi noir and Game of Thrones – it’s Springwatch all the way for Rab
I AM back on schedule. There’s a TV in the tiny flat where I’m currently residing, but it didn’t work: “weak or no signal”, it warned in the heartless way of the machines. The landlord suggested getting an aerial booster but that made no difference either.
Spilling the beans on Rab’s latest antics
I’ve been spilling food down my front again. My front is hardly front-page news. Spillages down it are an everyday occurrence. Diary entry: “Got up. Spilled food down shirt. Watched telly. Went to bed.”
The Last Word: A walk in the park just isn’t when you’re an amphibian
It’s the time of the toad. Signs have gone up beside the pond at the foot of the suburban hill warning stravaigers to watch out for amphibians underfoot.
Old attic is full of spiders, mice – and memories
I hope my next house has an attic. I’ve been clearing out the one in the home I’ll soon be departing and don’t know what I could have done without it.
Unsung heroes: all hail the cleaners
I ask you to be upstanding and join me in a toast to that most noble of professions: the cleaner.
Rab McNeil: The Lord of the Rings on Skye?
I have had the discombobulating experience of a flying object following me overhead and even zooming in on me.
A sauna is the perfect antidote to the stresses of life
Ooh, I do love a sauna. I hadn’t had one for ten years but discovered, to my delight, that there was one attached to the village gym near where I’m currently staying.
Getting in touch with nature on Skye
I’m back in Skye, as usual at an unfashionable time of year! I was prepared not to like it – always trying to free myself from the magic spell – but, once more, it overcomes me.
Trying to prevent a cat-astrophe
Bertie has been in a scrap. Or, perchance, he’s had an accident. At any rate, the tubby tabby cat suffered a lot of bruising and swelling to his chest area, and has had to have an operation.