21st
July 2017(Friday)....
08.30 The rain has moved orf, leaving
us with a ‘bright, breezy and cool’ morning.... a perfect morning for touching up to the car
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| !890's cell .... with Bible. |
paintwork. That, I’m assuming, will take a couple of
hours,..... after which we’ll make a ‘plan’.
21.00 The two hours turned into four, but at
least the job is done; the MOT is due
on 26th September..... which is what this ‘cosmetic’ exercise was all about. It has been a good day for working, and
there has been a cool wind... but nae rain.
I suppose it could be called an ‘autumnal’ day.
Tomorrow
we’re going to Cruden Bay for a daunder through the sand dunes looking for
insects.... butterflies and damselflies mostly. The weather forecast is ‘bright, sunny and
windy’.... which is not perfect for insects, but good for exercise.... and
there’s always a sheltered side to a sand dune.
When
I do something like today’s ‘work’ I get round to thinking about anything; mostly not to do with the work! With Myrebird being fresh in my mind I
started to browse my many memories of Myrebird, and Crathes School. One time Henry (Harry) and Janet went ‘for
a walk’..... Henry would have been 6 and Janet two and a bit; anyway this happened late in the summer, and
they were ‘missing’ by ‘denner
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| Items made by prisoners. |
time’ ... 17.00 or so. After, searching the house, and much
shouting ‘its denner time’, which brought no local answer.... we spread out,
and continued ‘shouting’. Soon our
nearest neighbours (the Pauls), and the Burnet’s (Dot’s family) were out
too.... and, as we spread out other neighbours joined in.... by this time the
sun was going down. They were
eventually found, sitting on a tree stump, up at Crathes School wood, cauld and
greetin’ .... Henry had decided to let Janet see the School.... which was about
half a mile away. I can’t remember who
actually found them, but I do remember how relieved everyone was knowing they were found ‘safe
and sound’. Getting ‘lost’ was about
the only misadventure that could happen to wee bairns; there
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| Dr's Consulting Room..... in the Hospital Block. |
were no ‘dangerous’ places around
Myrebird.
Photographs
: Top – 1890’s accommodation, Middle – example of items made by prisoners, and Bottom
– Doctors Consulting room. Note; the
table has it’s back to the door; this
was to allow the Doctor an escape route should a prisoner go ‘off on one’.
