Afternoon out

 I know we need to use the car less....but we couldn't do this from home...

We drove just under 40 miles to Moniaive and rode "round the block"...a bit over 20 miles!!

In the fresh air with very little traffic. Can't fault it and we feel much better, if tired.

In the garage...

No, not Trumpton!!

And....I know that some people were hoarding toilet roll....

In the mens' public toilets, photo courtesy of the pirate.

When packing our bikes back in the car we discovered that there was a guitar festival on this weekend!! It is quite a lively village!!

more cycling

Riding the bike, whether on the turbo or out in the (Wahey!!!!!)....sunshine..is bringing weight and blood pressure down. So one happier, if a bit tired, Pirate.
He has also stopped the meds that were supposed to deal with the side effects of the main therapy.....as they came with even worse side effects....made life not worth living....an achey growly Pirate was not on!!

Yesterday we foraged a carful( and it was full!!) of elm and beech, so by the evening we had a woodbin metre cube full of cut, stacked wood...and today we were tired!!

After today's chores we headed out to Moniaive with the bikes in the car...and went for a ride...not as far as planned, but enough.

No,not Trumpton!   Built in 1865 as the schoolmasters house,with a clock so that no village child would be late for school!  It is still hand wound and standing to take its picture we could hear the works ticking over.

Now we're sitting in front of a nice fire, burning our labours....

Dumfries and back

 Gracefields Arts Centre.     Galleries Outside and In!!

 Moniaive for a late lunch, and a little walk..up a little hill....

 a steep little hill...and said hello to a horse..

 and saw interesting dressed stone gateposts, all with bench marks...

 looking back down on Moniaive, with the way home straight up the valley ahead

 Say no more!!   It is also the site of the oldest pub in Scotland, possibly (The George) and the Green Tearoom.

and back home via Carsphairn, last village in Dumfries and Galloway before you return to Ayrshire.   Notable for its free public toilets, which you find in hardly any of Ayrshire's villages!!