Saturday, April 30th
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 20th,
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 11th and some schools will not
re-open till the next school year, which begins around August 10th
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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