Hello, what a busy week this has been I've hardly had time to draw breath. We were away on Monday to Scone Palace, Perth on Tuesday Ellen sitting from nursery on Wednesday and twitching birds on Thursday. Today has been a beautiful day sunshine blue skies and bitter cold all in one. We went away for a twitch up to Aberfeldy and surrounding area. The countryside was looking great for this time of year and the light was fantastic for photography. Have posted some for you to see. The day was not without mishap just as we were leaving Stuart was putting on a sweater and laid his glasses on the back of the settee. He did not realise he knocked them down and stood on them and broke one of the legs off completely, fortunately he has spares he can wear but is taking bad with two pairs after wearing varifocals for two years. We stopped of in Perth on the way home and put them in to the opticians for repair they said it would take about a week. Yesterday we had Ellen for a while she has had a bad cold all week but was in high spirits while we had her. Will leave you now to look at my pictures enjoy. Love
Thursday, 9 February 2006
Another picnic
Monday, 6 February 2006
Today Pictures
Here is a selection of photographs I have taken today and last summer at Scone Palace. Should have put them with todays entry but was running late earlier. Love Joan.
A nice day out.
Good afternoon, at long last we have managed to get our run out in the car to Scone palace. It is a beautiful palace and the grounds are magnificent. It is of great historical importance to Scotland as it where we crowned our Kings and Queens before the Union. The Stone of Destiny was kept here for 500 years. 1500 years ago it was the capital of the Pictish kingdom and the centre of the Ancient Celtic church. It is now the home of the Earl and Countess of Mansfield. At the moment being winter the palace and grounds are only open on Friday. So what were Stuart and doing up there on a Monday? What else bird watching there is a small flock of Hawfinches there and they are very rare. (will write about our trip in my bird watching journal later) At this time of year the snowdrops are fantastic but we must have been early this year and they are not so far out as usual. I have taken pictures for you to see but it looks much better when the sun is shining in the summer and well worth a proper visit. The gardens are not to manicured and there is a arboretum with may special trees I think I have some pictures we took last summer I will put them in as well when I select today's out of the camera. The weather was not too good but it did break up a bit later in the day and the sun remember that nearly came out. Really enjoy getting out and about, will tell you of our trip later in my bird watching diary. Bye for now. Love
Sunday, 5 February 2006
Saturday, 4 February 2006
Bargain Basemant
Good Evening, this morning Stu and I went round to see if we could catch a glimpse of the Waxwings I mentioned in my bird watching journal yesterday but we were out of luck. We then collected the newspapers and proceeded to our Garden centre coffee shop. We had our usual, then had a look round to see what had come in this week. All the tiny little pots of summer plants were in for rearing on the windowsill or in the greenhouse but at 99p each thought I would wait a bit. We decided to have a look outside as the weather was nice and sunny the early morning fog had dispersed quickly while we were having our coffee. We had a lovely walk around and came upon a table with planters that had been reduced. I have taken a picture to let you see what we bought for the large sum of £4.
What do you think do you think I got a bargain or not? The pots worked out at £1 each. The round pots are worth about 3 times that alone. They are filled with Violas and I think they will flower again. The other pots at the back are terracotta and they have ivy and a small tree and another plant I am not sure of. The total cost would have been £43-96p. I really think we did well this morning even if we did not get to see the Waxwings. AOL has been playing me up rotten this afternoon and this is my 3rd and final attempt at this, it's a good job I type in on Front Page and then paste and copy or I would be going spare by now. Bye just now and hope you all have a pleasant evening. Love,
Friday, 3 February 2006
Good morning I just cannot believe it is Friday again. Where has the week gone. I thought that when we retired the time would slow down a bit but it just romps away from me. This morning being Friday Stuart is at art class and I have accomplished absolutely nothing, zilch. I am ashamed of this I should be getting on with things. It would not be so bad if I knew what I have spent the time doing but I haven't got a clue its 11-38am Stuart will be back in half and hour and I am going to have to get a move on and at least pretend that I have been busy. I am quite good at scurrying round used to do it a lot when I was younger and had a lot of friends come found in a morning for a chat. Will try to come back later and talk some sense. Love
Wednesday, 1 February 2006
Busy day.
Good Evening very late tonight but have had such a busy day. Here I am sitting here with my lovely new reading specs not varifocals like I normally wear. Still love them but they are useless for the computer as your neck get so sore if you are on the PC for any length of time. I have tried all ways with the monitor flat on the desk up on books but nothing helped. tonight I had a lot of emails to get through and I have no pain at all and I am really pleased about that and I can see great. I have been doing a spot of babysitting today for our grand daughter which is a very rare occasion as she has a nanny that picks her up from her school so we don't get a chance to have her all to ourselves for a wee while. I think she enjoyed herself as much as we did. Will have to go now as it is time for our supper (toast and coffee) and Desperate Housewives then bed exhausted but happy. Love