2016....nearly gone...

 We've been walking...when its been too windy to be awheel....

 and catching the fresh air and sun, occasionally.

 Presents from The Wizzard and his Lady...

 and making a present for Woodchip....

 and wearing presents...

 half an hour left of this year...with a jug made by Hannah...

Slainte....Blwyddyn Newydd Dda.....Here's to a good New Year...

walk near Talybont

Walk along Croy Shore

 Looking past Maybole Shore to Culzean Castle..all part of Culzean Bay

 windswept trees

 Ailsa Craig

 walking the plank!

neither of us had ever been down the lane to this shore..and twenty years ago the Pirate was living in the next village up the shore!

We also found a painter/sculptor and talked to his wife who runs the gallery...they do have other painters' work there...maybe they'd be open to some lino prints or a few selected pots....

a break in the rain

 So we went for a walk...we did the short walk around Hannahston Community Woodland....It suffers from the usual , money given for capital expenditure and none for ongoing maintenance...but it is there and used well.

 Cargolux coming in to Prestwick....The Pirate used to work on handling these,when he worked for fedex

 and some neighbours, Hannahston Alpacas..

The rain it raineth on.....

Only our toilet drain works properly...so most of the rainwater from the roof is adding to that coming from the sky.
  The garden is a quagmire, and a drainage trench the Pirate dug so that water wouldn't gather against the sleepers that go under his shed...is full of water....

Pirate has been sorting things in the kitchen that should be in the shed...if you can't work outside,better to do something indoors.  We are suffering rather,from shed stuff in the house....but slowly we are making sense of things and bringing order to the chaos.

I'm learning my limits ...when you have a 40 year old injury, compounded  by working on our smallholding in the 90s then doing a cleaning job, mopping in the "noughties"......you listen harder to your body's twinges and tweaks, and don't just carry on......

more walking..

 walk with little brother in Ninesprings, Yeovil

 reflections

 and pebble mosaics

 and the highest spring of the nine

more family visiting tomorrow

walk in the rain

 Yesterday we decided that it was too wet for a ride on our bikes...so we had a walk in the rain instead!

 Up a side valley from Talybont where daughter and family live....

 and back following an old track/footpath...

 heading back towards the village

 or so we thought....this is looking back...the path should come from the left, on the far side of the gate,through where the wall has been built.....
son-in-law knows the Rights of Way officer........

 Photographer at work.....(daughter)

 This is the bottom end of the footpath, all nicely marked.....and here there is no Right to Roam as in Scotland.   You stick to the paths....if you can find them!

 We found another, going down..

 past a nice house we'd all like...

then over a bridge and back home.

It is still giving us heavy fine rain today...another bike ride was planned, but perhaps just chilling out is best.
 Daughter is doing her freelance work in the next room...a job that would have been finished, but the client has a habit of changing his mind on details...luckily he is paying for her design work by the hour!

Tomorrow we head for home with  packing to do for our house move.