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Mon 13 Nov 2006

Winter is here!

Posted by Kim under Odds & Sods
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This morning I got a sign that winters here, it wasn’t a frosty chill in the air (it is worryingly mild at present), it wasn’t the dark morning (I was a wee bit late in getting up), it was the arrival of the Braemar & Cairngorm Mountain Sports winter catalogue (well that and Ulli sending the first ski race results of the season)! At is the time of year when my mind turns to thoughts of the white stuff and dreams of skiing. It is that time of year when I start to regularly look at the Cairngorm webcams (and cursing global warming). It’s time to work up my fitness and make sure I am fit to ski. It’s time to dig out my gear from whichever safe place it was put in at the end of last season, where ever that!

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Mon 13 Nov 2006

Persian carpet

Posted by Kim under Edinburgh Living, Odds & Sods
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Ulli and I have long (well for about two years) wanted to get a Persian carpet for the living room. This started when we selecting items for a wedding list at Jenners (an Edinburgh institution), at that time there was a wonderful collection of Persia carpet on the top floor. At the time we decided that the carpets were too expensive for the wedding list but something we wanted to buy for ourselves. At the time things didn’t work out as we didn’t have the money to buy one, now that financially things are on the up we are again in the market for a carpet. Sadly when House of Fraser took over Jenners the store was moved down market and the genuine Persian carpets where thrown out and replaced with cheap imitations. All is not lost, recently we have discovered that the company Isfahan Carpets which used to supply Persian carpets to Jenners is still going strong and has an outlet not far from Edinburgh. I feel a trip out to see them will be coming soon and House of Fraser has lost another high value sale. One can only hope that Jenners’ new owners Baugur will make a better job of it!

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