Busy afternoon

 

And there's more....!! I'll be glad to see the back of it all..and more!!

This morning we had lunch out in the vegan restaurant in Ayr...I'd never been past when it was open!

After a good lunch, what better than a walk on the beach.esoecially as the view towards Arran was the clearest we could remember seeing.

I'm not sure what the development is at this pavilion..it has been "Pirate Pete's" for a while, a children's play centre. Thirty years ago my Pirate used to go to Country and Western nights there!!

..then shopping for a few supplies before heading to Nae Sae New in Mauchline.

The Oily One found two Haynes manuals he could use..and friend found a Portuguese painted clay kitchen luck charm ! (I'll photograph that tomorrow)

Back home....and friend is teaching themselves to throw....while the Oily One is fixing the flue....

Sky and progress

 

This was the morning sky at 7.35 yesterday....but the day before and today the clouds hid the sky and light hasn't filtered through for another half an hour.

Yesterday was cold all day but at least dry.

A good day for daughter and SiL to start their journey home.  Plus a good day for Oily One and friend to haul out shed contents to sort....

There is a long row of black bags full of rubbish.  And a heap of boxes of metal bits and other metal things to go for metal recycling. 

The sewing room is no longer chock full...I'll be able to move things around to paint the walls and sort things ready to go to a bike jumble or sell online.  The packaging corner needs reviewing....

A lot of progress has been made!

Today we may look at the kiln flue..but they need to review the weather forecast.

So far there are weather warnings from this evening, but mainly further north from here....

Sorting

The pile is twice as big now....

 I have been sorting clothes and shoes and books with Daughter.

SiL has been in the Bike room, doing tools and bikes and bits.

The Oily One and friend have been working on Pirate's shed....

There is much rubbish....a lot of metal to go to the artist blacksmith in the artists collective...quite a few things handed over as they can be of use to them.

Daughter and SiL leave tomorrow...my 15 year old autistic grandsons have been with SiL's 90 year old dad....they have been cooking and he took them to the Waterways Museum.   Great fun being had all round!!

The Oily One and friend are here for a few more days....when work will be a little less intense and stressful!!

Ticking over

 A spare day..as initially daughter was arriving today..so everything was geared to that! 

Dawn was a little cloudy

But dry...so the wash went in before breakfast and out as soon as the sun shone!

It was still cold for a while as until mid-afternoon it looked like this at the front...

Not snow, just cold and frosty 

But by mid-afternoon you wouldn't have known about it!

I had another session of patchworking this afternoon ...three of the four blocks done!

I can't just sit there....

Still cold

 It took a long time to sleep last night..,so I awoke to this.... before 8am!!

And an hour later...

It was bright sun but very cold all day.

This was as dusk was approaching. The road was like this all day.

I did tidy the workshop up a little so that I can get things done with the Oily One. Then retreated to warm up ! I was glad of the lambing gilet from Mountain Man and the warm boots from Pirate!!  The advantage of having partners who wore near enough the same sizes !!

Another hand delivered card today...I doubt that there will be many more.. although there may be some stuck on the post...cards have been taking 4 to 8 days to get here.

I've retreated to bed with diary, Duolingo, blogger and book !!

Quiet and frosty

 A nice quiet day.  Study tidied. Bedding ready for visitors..who will now all arrive on Sunday... hopefully the Oily One will stay a bit longer than daughter's two nights.....

I get the between the lines feeling that "it's your fault that you moved so far away".... forgetting that she eventually moved three hours drive away from me!!! And that we saw as many of them as we could every time we visited, two or three times a year....and it has never always been convenient to visit...

Was I supposed to pass up a chance of a life of my own....with the love of my life...after almost thirty sixty years of dedicating my life to their father and them...?  Hey ho.... families...who'd have 'em?!!!!

It has been nice having message conversations with friends today, from nearby and around Scotland and from New Zealand, and a long phone call from a cousin in London.

Then a beautiful sky at dusk with a crescent moon shining bright.

Lighter

 Same times.....a clear sky makes a difference!!

Then...

I've shuffled the living room around slightly..made a little more room in the middle so that the sofabed works ok.

Sorted more clothes and books into bags so that daughter and husband (arriving Saturday) and Oily One and friend (arriving Sunday) can choose anything they need.

Op shops aren't taking books anyway, mostly, and are too full.of clothes donations.

Tomorrow is the turn of my study....