Lovely Morrrrrrrning......

 24th December 2023 (Sunday)     09.00    We had a warm night and yesterday's snow


vanished like 'snaw aff a dyke' on a sunny day:  which is handy because it means the roads are clear. and we are planning to visit Macduff aquarium.

20.00  We had a very enjoyable time at the impressive, Macduff Award Winning Aquarium;  it's well laid out and very educational.   It's hard to believe that the snow we had yesterday had melted leaving only a few patches in sheltered corners... but a lot of water on fields and roads..  What we did have today, was a beautiful showing of Nacreous clouds at sunrise and sunset:  the sunset time clouds were especially bright.  Nacreous clouds have been seen over the northern part of the UK for the past week.  

We had an exceptionally good showing of the aforementioned Nacreous clouds here at Auchnagatt at sunset time.   They are not common and certainly rarely as bright as they were this evening.   They were well photographed.

We're all ready for Christmas Day;  'M' (New Zealand) was on Skype earlier and she was already celebrating.... New Zealand, because of it's geographical position, is one of the first countries to celebrate Christmas.... and of course New Year.                                        There's a frisky auld wind blowin at Auchnagatt tonight;  I hope it disnae blow Santa aff his delivery route.   Actually he will probably use DPD or EVRI instead of good old Rudolph and his reindeer pals,  Dasher, Comet, Prancer, Cupid, Vixen, Dancer, Donner and Blitzen.   That would be sad!

22.30    I thought I heard  a "Ho Ho Ho".... and the tinkling of sleigh bells a minute or to ago;  maybe I should get orf to bed!   The big news is.... 39 second pause.... anither 39 second pause....Boris has decided to do the blog tomorrow;  I'll take a few photos of him in action:  oh... he also  tends to be slightly different in the way he sees things.   He has decided to do it so

that's it....'Boris the Blogger' it will be!   I'll be in 'slight flap on' state....all day!






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