Lovely morning .....

27th October 2024 (Sunday)     08.15 .... It's a bright and breezy morning, but there's a chilly

This morrrrrrrning.
breeze from the West;  that said, it's a grand morning for working in the garden!   Iain was 'up' before me and is working already.   I have done a bit with the secateurs';  Iain has been pruning the Rowan tree, which was starting to get out of hand.   This morning we're tidying up the prunings.

19.00    We have done a load o' work today;  yep, plural:  I was 'working' too!    Iain did much more than me, but my contribution was, by my standards, considerable..   We got rid of all the Rowan tree prunings;  actually, lopping would be more accurate, and the bathroom window (and roof) is now safe from the next gale.   The higher bits have yet to be pruned, but that will be done before Spring.   Doing all that meant we didn't go out anywhere;  but we're happy with the result, and don't have the worry of the Rowan tree branches walloping about.  

It was a lovely day for working in the garden, but the sky was clouding over by lunchtime; it's now raining.   The rain is forecast to be with us overnight and into tomorrow morning.   I suspect that tomorrow might be rest day' for me.

Iain set off for home immediately after lunch so that he could be back at Auchnagatt before dark.  I washed the lunch dishes etc. then sat down to watch some TV.  and had a quiet afternoon.   

The lunchtime photo (yesterday) caught me admiring the progress on the Rowan tree:  I'll put up a before and after once the job is finished.... that could be the beginning of December.

That dark rectangle on the wall above the table is a mystery!    It wasn't a window or anything like that, and it was there since Maggie's family lived in Ivy Cottage.   It looks like there might have been a plaque of some kind there but we really haven't a clue as the why it is there.  Or what was there!


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