Angela and Richard Hough, from Buxton, in summer attire and heading for a day on the Isle of Skye - look at the blue, blue sky!!
Thank you for coming again, Angela and Richard.....

Saturday, April 30^th 2016

I know we do sometimes seem to be obsessed with the weather – but really I have to tell you that it has been very strange recently!

A week ago in Edinburgh the temperatures reached 17C and there were people walking around in shorts and Tshirts – in the late evening!

This week in Plockton we have had snow lying and freezing temperatures – yet, when the sun came through it was warm! What will May bring?

I was in Edinburgh for nearly a week – great fun with the family around and a little time to visit friends too.... Daniel was eleven a few days ago and he got his wish – a pond for the tadpoles he took home from Sandra's pond in Plockton! Colin and he dug and dug, Moira and I went for a liner and everyone helped lay down old carpet first, then the liner – now I believe slabs have been found to go round the edge. This litle pond – it is about two metres by one and a half metres – is now filled and Daniel is waiting till it warms a bit and the added weeds help ovygenate the water or the tadpoles will wish they were back in Plockton!!!

Catriona and Sean, two of my grandchildren, attend the Royal High School in Edinburgh. It is one of seventeen Edinburgh partially or completely closed as a major fault was found in the extensions built in the last few years, by the same company. Catriona, in fourth year and sitting national exams in about two weeks, has been housed mainly in the old school building, along with years five and six. Sean, in year one, is in a portacabin in the grounds, along with years two and three and ocasionally year four. This will carry on till June 20^th, the newspapers tell us!

Other schools are worse off, though, as the children are having to be bussed to temporary accommodation. As a newspaper states “At the height of the chaos, 81 buses were transporting over 7,000 pupils across the city”! All this started on April 11^th and some schools will not re-open till the next school year, which begins around August 10^th I think!

I'll also be busy in the garden, especially the front lawn which has been mown, scarified, had ferrous supthate put on, scarified again, fertilised and now it is nearly ready to be mown again – when I'll hopehully see that most of the black moss in particular has gone! I do hope all the treatments have been successful, as Moira and friends all helped with it, when they stayed a few days earlier on.......

I hope to see you soon at Heron's Flight.....

Best wishes

Ann

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