Weekly Chat (Non-Osprey), 3 September 2017

Good to read all the news and see the pics of Lindys lovely blooms.

HEATHER   Well done for all that walking, but just remember all we do require is 10 mins at a brisk pace!!!

Forgot to tell you that when I had my swim the other day I got talking to the only other person in the pool. He has been learning for a bout a year now and feels he isn't making as much progress as he would like. He has his 79th birthday next month!!!!   Well done to him for his efforts.

Good evening!  Had a good one yesterday at GIG meeting – very enjoyable for an AGM.  I have persuaded OH at last to go on one of their ten-pin bowling trips!  He is very reluctant to go where I can’t go, so with this evening’s museum talk and that one too, I have succeeded twice now!  Got some good-looking splints from OT today, but not quite right for the crutches.  She suggested I ought to request more physio to get me from crutches to sticks, so I have phoned for an appointment.  Very difficult dealing with all of this as the different departments only look at the condition you have been referred with, not other ongoing conditions!

J is getting his minor op tomorrow morning, to remove his toenail, and we are all supposed to be going out for a concert in the evening – folk by Emily Smith and Jamie McLellan (she is a local singer and composer and he is a violinist from NZ (husband and wife).  They are getting very well-known now and tour often.

Linda – pleased your friend has managed to reduce the morphine, but sorry about her eyes.  Extremely wet and windy here today – I hate having to go out in the rain!  Lovely garden flowers again, and nice to se the combine harvester busy, farmers here spent a few days trying to get the Barley grain in before today’s weather!

Heather – sounds a sensible decision re trees to let go!  Your Son’s business is growing fast – good luck to him.  I hope the effects of the walking aren’t too long-lasting!

Dibnlib – well done with the swimming – and your new swimming friend too!

Well, I’ll shut up now – probably be back at the weekend.

Heather - Our tomatoes are mostly 'Moneymaker' grown in gro bags, in the unheated greenhouse.

My OH grows climbing French beans, but can't remember the name on the packet this year!

Dibnlib - What a determined gent! Good Luck to him!

It did rain this afternoon, in the end. I was cross to find slugs chomping away on my Nerines, as not so many came up this year. I used to have a healthy patch of them, but don't know if they're rotting off, or too dry underneath a hedge.

ps - Annette, the last pic, of the roses, is the same rose as in the first pic! - it's just the way it came out in the photo. They are, in reality, a peachy colour. Don't know, now, what they were called. Bonnie eats the labels on everything.  She has eaten her way through two plastic bags, half a biro, and 3 of my birthday cards in the last few days. And made her hole she's been digging to get down to visit AQ, twice as deep.

Good evening all..

Heather Corunn is a Gaelic word for Rowan. It's a traditional gin covered by law how it's produced so has to have Juniper berries in it. Many whisky distilleries are producing gin as an easy option as whisky has to be matured for at least 3 years and gin doesn't.

So you find all these new bespoke gins will tweet their botanicals . Their logo is a 5 point star which is the 5 points at the base of a Rowan fruit.

Busy couple of days as had 2 ton of logs to stack and according to me new Fitbit it was equal to a 5 mile walk. I still have 3 Swallows in the nest in my log store so they just watched over the edge but parents didn't seem fazed as zooming past my head to feed them. Late second brood so they had better get a wiggle on.

Wet and Autumnal tonight OH off in a couple of weeks so fingers crossed for an Indian sumner.

Awful destruction in the Caribbean it beggars belief.

I'm sorry its got so complicated with the splints, OG, what a pain. You came on whilst I was writing.

Wendy- that's lot of logs. Do you have a wood burning stove? Very fashionable, now. We know a couple of people who enjoy theirs.

Had one for 16 years and in Scotland it's not a fashion statement it's a necessary.

I can keep around 5 ton at a time so am up to capacity. It's all Birch as soft wood is useless and sometimes dangerous as resin can cause chimney fires. I have sort of OCD in my store so I am the only one allowed in:-)

Oil was delivered yesterday as well so I can go phew bring it on winter !!

Hope the winter holds off for a bit, yet, Wendy.....

Best to be prepared..

We have had one year of no lawn for 87 days..

One Boxing Day it was minis one at Lossiemouth and minus 18 at 2 pm here.

We are along the Spey Valley as it funnels down from the Cairngorms.

Sounds like a chilly place!  --  but beautiful.