On September 16 I began
writing you. This morning I finished my
letter, saved and thought I did the usual to transfer it to the website. Well, the whole letter has vanished, though I
have blank saved document! Now, as this
is/was a two page document I am bamboozled...
But here goes again….
We have had wonderful
weather for the last month. The ground
is parched after many, many days of warm sunshine and very light breezes – the midges
were not troublesome either!
I’ve had mostly great fun
with the house plants in the front porch.
The avocados are a metre tall, a
few special seedlings have done well, the banana I bought as an 18” plant is
rapidly heading to the roof and my two bananas grown from seed are over a foot
tall – happily they are a variety that should grow on outside from next spring/early summer. My week of anything but fun was recently,
when my old bonsai just died – in a matter of days…. Ian and Alison gave me it many years ago. Luckily it had thrown out four side shoots
and if one of them survives, then the bonsai lives on….
PSBSC is at the end of a
busy summer of sailing, instruction and racing; next week Malcolm MacKenzie,
the present Commodore, will hand over to this year’s Vice Commodore at the AGM.
The Scottish Referendum,
talked about and planned for so long, is finally over and with a result of 55%
of the population deciding not to separate from the rest of the United Kingdom. As the number of people who voted was a very
high percentage of the eligible population, it is a true reflection of what our
little country wants. The number of
people who voted in Plockton and district was 100% I believe.
I’ve had a busy time and
both Ruah and I have enjoyed meeting our guests. We’ve had visitors from so
many places. Thank you all for coming;
thank you to all who have returned; thank you from Ruah for all her walks!
When I next write, I’ll have
seen my last guests of 2014 and shall have been for a few days to
Edinburgh. Then, if the normal pattern
continues, hibernation for a spell! But,
I have my 2015 diary at the ready!
Best wishes
Ann
