I found these at the antique mall in Doune on Friday – all lined up and ready to be grabbed as needed.

It may be Hogmanay in Scotland, but I still have to eat as many black eyed peas as possible on New Year’s Day.  They’re not available fresh in the UK, so I’m soaking just over a pound of the dried ones.  They’ll be eaten with raw onion tomorrow.

Happy New Year!

The back of my husband’s Ikea office chair.  The circles are patterns of light coming in through the string holes of the closed blinds.