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Scotland
Monday we had glorious weather, and headed back to the Mull of Galloway. We were tempted to go all the way south to the lighthouse again, but are glad we stuck with the plan to visit Logan Botanical Gardens. They're beautiful! I saw so many plants that my mother used to grow in southern Texas and California. I hadn't expected so many eucalyptus ( Read more... ) -
Scotland
I took Tuesday as a rest day; DH explored locally. Wednesday we went towards Kirkcudbright (kerr-coo-brie), saw the sea and some fantastically crenellated buildings built by James Brown about 1900 - Corseyard Dairy and Kirkandrews Kirk (google is your friend). Then we went up to Gateway of Fleet to visit the massively over-stocked bookshop at the ( Read more... ) -
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I have on occasion cross-posted my own journal entries (the few there are) to facebook, and wish I could remember how to do so now. However, I will never cross-post comments from anyone else's journal to anywhere else. -
Scotland
We're back in Scotland after all! In the cottage in Minnigaff, across the River Cree from Newton Stewart. Saturday was cloudy and sometimes wet, but when I woke at 2am the Milky Way was spread over 2/3rds of the sky, clearer than I've seen it since childhood. Sunday was a day of rest, and Monday started as a day of storm. But we headed out ( Read more... ) -
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Instead of cleaning up after the workmen, and tidying up after ourselves, we're spending a quiet day in the comfy chairs with the newspaper, laptop, and books. Current books: _Europe's Inner Demons_ by Norman Cohn (DH likes serious reading) and John Scalzi's _Old Man's War_ series. -
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We aren't sure we'll get our usual holiday in Scotland in September, so last week we took off on a short and unplanned break up there - not our usual style at all. We spent the first night in Moffat, which is a holiday resort for Glasgow. It wasn't busy, and there were still patches of snow on the hills. The next day, in beautiful weather, we set ( Read more... ) -
Volcano closes UK airspace
It's a beautiful day here, you'd never guess that there's a cloud of volcanic ash overhead at 50,000 feet. Manchester airport has been closed since 6am, and there are two forecasts: flights will resume soon or all Europe will be closed down. Oh, and a third forecast, that the next time it rains it will rain mud. -
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The Big Freeze is officially over, washed away by two mornings of heavy rain (with gale force winds). There are still patches of ice on the roads and pavements, and there are lines of snow on the fields in hollows and alongside walls. But real life has returned - we are going out to lunch!