Monday, 10 July 2017

Saturday 8th July

                                                              Saturday 8th July 2017

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Live on River Dee Radio with smashy and nicey

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Marshalling at the No Fuss
Downhill Enduro.
With 6 hours to do as many laps
as possible, I didn't bother saying
'Well Done'
I just let them get on with it....

Friday 7th July

                                                              Friday 7th July 2017

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Practicing this granny business with great neph's and nieces...DONT press too hard with the sharpies....

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I like a bit of fungus -
as long as it's growing in the right place.

Thursday 6th July

                                                              Thursday 6th July 2017

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Everything in the East garden is lovely AND the sun is shining

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Summer meadow without the summer

Wednesday 5th July

                                                          Wednesday 5th July 2017

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Never get tired of this view from a gate...

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Sgurr an Utha,
above Glenfinnan


Thursday, 6 July 2017

Tuesday 4th July EAST I have a sofa interloper/visitor/puppy on holiday/bigger than a horse/no manners with less manners

Tuesday 4th July

EAST


I have a sofa interloper/visitor/puppy on holiday/
bigger than a horse/no manners....

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MOT'd and ready to go -
with or without me.

Monday 3rd July 2017 EAST and so it begins again...Basilica +8

Monday 3rd July 2017

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and so it begins again.....
Basilica +8

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Entertaining the Californians with a Deli Craft
picnic at Blarmafodach on their flyby
trip through Fort William

Sunday 2nd July 2017 EAST - these two loons......

Sunday 2nd July 2017

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These two loons......

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Too many sick folk around here - 
we gotta eat better!!!



Saturday 1st July 2017 EAST - Fam - its fair game at the game fair...

                                                            Saturday 1st July 2017

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Fam - it's fair game at the Game Fair

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My 'Wee Girl' looked after this wee girl all day

Friday 30th June 2017 EAST My brother filling the loch up...

Friday 30th June 2017

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My brother filling the loch up....

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I couldn't take a photo of him today as he spent most
of it in the bathroom.  He's 53 today and sick.
And I went off to see my cousins!!!

Thursday 29th June 2017 EAST The first of many. Wild Brownies from the Plantation Loch. Altnaharra

Thursday 29th June 2017

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Wild Brownies from the Plantation Loch -
Altnaharra

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And........back home to reality again.


Wednesday 28th June 2017 EAST Illustration for a commission in lieu of no photo of today's art class - an intro to watercolour

Wednesday 28th June 2017

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Illustration for a commission in lieu
of no photo of today's art class

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Art in a bowl full of soup.
Gazpachio at The White House Restaurant
in Lochaline, Lochaber.  
Sublime.

Tuesday 27th June 2017 EAST These little hooligans are as fat as butter - look at those wrinkles and that's not even an age thing..

Tuesday 27th June 2017

EAST


These little hooligans are as fat as butter -
look at those wrinkles.

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I am too old for mountains, pigs and late nights...

Monday 26th June 2017 EAST A Bridge too far.....

Monday 26th June 2017 

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A bridge too far....

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Spent yesterday evening at Eden Court with
the one that DID get the tune written and played at
her wedding, and the one that DIDN'T -
Donald Grant in Secret North....
STUNNING.
http://www.folkradio.co.uk/2017/06/the-secret-north/


Sunday 25th June 2017 EAST You want me to do what? where? when? - Check for Grouse, here and NOW.

Sunday 25th June 2017

EAST


You want me to do what?  Where?  When?
Check for Grouse?  Here?  Now?

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Tiny, fresh - and thriving in the rain up
on Cow Hill

Saturday 24th June 2017 EAST Portsoy Boat Festival - and the prettiest skiffs

Saturday 24th June 2017

EAST


Portsoy Boat Festival -
and the prettiest skiffs.

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I hate pigs

Friday 23rd June 2017 EAST Free like a high flying bird....more Buckety wishes

Friday 23rd June 2017

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Free like a flying bird.....more Buckety wishes

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So - now it's on MY Buckety list never
ever to get pigs again.  But as long as 
I've got them, I'm bloody well 
going to catch them......

Thursday 22nd June 2017 EAST Mrs Melgorium's Botanical Emporium - Friends of Anchor #20for20 Launch! (no Bestie due to Piggate)

Thursday 22nd June 2017

EAST


Mrs Melgorium's Botanical Emporium -
Friends of Anchor #20 for 20 Launch

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I didn't go East to Mrs Melgorium's
launch  as the pigs were arriving.....

Wednesday 21st June 2017 EAST This has always been on my bucket list!

Wednesday 21st June 2017

EAST


This has always been on my bucket list

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Sunshine making the clouds worth the while

Tuesday 19th EAST taking the sea air....and water - quite literally - poor Whisper was sick as a dawg #saltywater + #gsp dont mix!

Tuesday 20th June 2017

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Taking the sea air.....and water - quite literally -
poor Whisper was sick as a dawg

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4000 feet at 11.30pm - approaching
Carn Mor Dearg Arete.
Feeling sick as a dawg, myself!!

Monday 19th June 2017 - EAST doing crow walking penance for not blogging for a fortnight....

Monday 19th June 2017

EAST


Doing Crow walking penance for not
blogging for a fortnight.....

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Stilt walking penance.......


Monday, 19 June 2017

Sunday 18th June 2017

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Granny's picnic table

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Dog wedding -
back to reality


Saturday 17th June 2017

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10.30pm - first time I've seen the big hill
for days - and it disappeared again pretty quickly

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Reviewing holiday watercolours



Friday 16th June 2017

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Slight detour on my run over the Cowhill

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Official photographer at the charity shoot -
it's raining clays

Thursday 15th June 2017

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Why WOULDN'T you come to Fort William
this year instead of The Caribbean?

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Seems this empty nest thing is harder to 
crack than I thought -
they keep coming back

Wednesday 14th June 2017

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Been watching this cloud all day.
Whilst all the others have whizzed about
the skies, this one has stayed static.
How does that work?

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Never get tired of cloud-watching