From Facebook archives
Loud cursing from the bathroom - at
some length and strength.
Master of the house emerges.
"Ben, where's the
hairdryer?"
"You've
dropped the radio in the bath again haven't you?"
So like the home-life of our own
dear Queen...
Wednesday, 31 May 2023
Hairdryer
Monday, 29 May 2023
Good Hair Day?
So we're driving back from a couple
of days in Bridlington.
My hair had got really manky and I
washed it this morning and let it dry hanging loose.
Not knowing whether it looked tidy
or through-a-hedge-backwards I asked Fester
"How does my hair look?"
"Very Rubenesque dear, with
just a hint of Pre-Raphelite."
Henlady
I love Pre-Raphaelite
hair, mine is so straight.
MsExlibris
I think I
would take that as a compliment!
Bess Cavalier I'd take Rubenesque
or Pre-Raphaelite any day - got to be an improvement on Crystal Tips!
The 2019 Scottish Trip Part 2
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| The Sound of Sleat |
After
watching Great British Road Trips the General Wade Military Road episode
Thunderthighs requested we drive that road from Inverness to the Glenelg ferry.
From Facebook archives
We
drove General Wade's Military Road all the way from Inverness to Glenelg and
straight on to the ferry. No chance to
photograph it and no room to open my door once we were aboard. As well as two
blokes operating it this ferry had a pair of really friendly Border
Collies. Sadly I couldn't get a photo of
them.
"Take a photo of them"
They're too far away.
"That's ok, you can crop it."
Anyway, there were seals who seemed pleased to see us.
Ferretfingers
enjoyed the cruise too
When
you get to the other side there’s nowhere to stop for a photo so it’s right up
the hill in first or second gear.
Our
picturesque lunch spot was in Broadford car park.
Then
we drove back over the Skye bridge and down to the even more picturesque EileanDonan.
Twenty
years ago (or more) when we first took the boys to Skye Ferretfingers
was carsick and we stopped in the carpark here to clean him up. Which we mention every time we spot it on the
tv or elsewhere. There was hardly
anything there then.
Now there's a posh
visitors' centre, car-park-men to guide you, coach parking and hundreds of
tourists of all nations.
We just had some very nice ice-cream, took some
photos and headed for our guest house.
Our
bedroom at Caberfeidh guest house has one of the best views we've ever enjoyed.
I spent a lot of
time just staring out of the window watching the changing light changing the
character of the loch.
No photos could do it justice.
The
rooms were really comfortable and the breakfast was excellent too.
The
Dornie Hotel (just over the water) did us an excellent dinner. Fester and I shared a seafood platter and
introduced Thunderthighs to langoustine (not impressed).
Ferretfingers
makes himself at home wherever he is; the view was wasted on him.
He insisted on closing
the curtains at bedtime.
I still woke up
at 4am.
I went to the window to look at
the loch, opened it to better listen to the dawn chorus, and heard the cuckoo.
The
west of Scotland in May is definitely the place to hear the cuckoo; we heard
and saw three last year on the Mull of Kintyre.
We
had an uneventful drive to the Ardrossan Hotel in Ayr, dinner with Fester’s friend
the Beetle Professor and his Wife, and a wet drive home via the Military Road
(the Hadrian’s Wall one).
Sunday, 28 May 2023
The 2019 Scottish Trip Part 1
From Facebook Archives
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Not the worst view we've had from a hotel
window; The Moray Firth and beyond from The Smithton Hotel just outside
Inverness. |
26, 27
May 2019
After
watching Great British Road Trips the General Wade Military Road episode Thunderthighs
requested we drive that road from Inverness to the Glenelg ferry.
We’ve
stopped over in Inverness many times but never had a proper look around so this
time we stayed in Smithton, bussed in and got on a City Sightseeing
hop-on-hop-off for the tour.
Unlike
Glasgow (and elsewhere) in Inverness they inflict every type of Scottish music
on passengers with the interesting and informative commentary. The pipes start as soon as you board then it's
short snaps of Jimmy Shand, Andy Sterwart, the Proclaimers, fiddling Strathspeyreels, execrable versions of Mull of Kintyre and Amazing Grace, other
Caledonian stuff I can't name and Hoots Man There's A Moose Loose Aboot The
Hoose. The last was the only one Ferretfingers
liked and giggled about for a day or so.
Even right at the back on the outside there was no escape; I spent a
fair time with my handbag shoved over the speaker to deaden it.
Other
than that, the wind and the rain, it was an excellent ride.
Thunderthighs
found and hopefully presented me with a Loch Ness cruises brochure but I
demurred on the grounds that there were bound to be pipes playing and, much as
I like them and would like to do the trip, it would drive Ferretfingers
demented. Also it would be full of
tourists. Thunderthighs agreed.
The
bus broke down on Culloden Moor.
Ferretfingers fell asleep.
We won't discuss how Thunderthighs reacted.
27 May at 15.52
Looking over the battlefield
Now this is a form of information board we like.
Information on one side and a bench on the other.
Tuesday, 23 May 2023
Full Snails?
My
snail hunting obsession may have led to this mondegreen...
From
Facebook archives.
22
May 2017 at 22:55 ·
Only 2
snails this evening, and no return of the friendly cat.
24
May 2017 at 10:26 ·
Yesterday
at yoga Ingrid, the teacher, was telling us about her great-niece who is
studying Beauty at Newcastle College and doing treatments at home for practice
and not much money.
"She's
doing all the stuff: waxing, tanning, facials and full snails."
Some new
treatment I'd never heard of?
No … a
little thought and I realised she'd actually said "false nails
Quiet
giggles on the mat in the corner.
Only one
snail found on last night's hunt.
🐌🐌🐌
I have a
family event to attend, so there will be no more blogs until Sunday at the
earliest.
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