Thankfully I managed to get my head out of bed today and the rest yesterday did me some good. Bounding out of bed (ok not quite but I’m thinking motivation here!) at 7.30ish, dogs fed, toast with butter and raspberry jam. Uh-maaaaazin 😋 it’s the most miserable looking morning we’ve seen for a while…. smirry rain (that hardly rain but it soaks you!….. yeah I know…. it all does but you know what I mean) so all suited and booted to head out with the dogs.

Had Beith Trust deliveries at 12 today and I’ve had an extra 4 people added to my list. Did my usual Wednesday run and had a lovely chat with my last lady as I usually do. Then headed back to Geilsland to pick up for my new Beith run. It’s great to meet some lovely folk from Beith and learn my way around the town! Got chatting at my last house to a lovely lady… least I know who to leave until last! Her hair is driving her mad as she can’t get it cut and she is desperate for hair clasps and I said I’ll try and get her some over the weekend. Nothing worse when short hair grows and is in your face, I’ve been there!!

Finished by about 2.15pm and back home for a quick bite to eat before the whole Overland & Borders gang loaded up into the Jeep for the first time since about New Year! (I just asked Craig if he could remember when the 5 of us were last in the Jeep together…… “erm about 15 minutes ago” dead pan….. this is what I live with 😳🤦🏻‍♀️)

It was such a shame that the first time we got to see Helen and Doug that we had the heaviest rain of lockdown, only saved by the fact they had the gazebo up!! It was so lovely to catch up with them and hear how lockdown has been for them…. also so lovely to have Cookie cuddles!

It was so lovely to spend some time together after so long, so strange not to be in the house or hug them goodbye but Helen said how pleased she was that we’d gone and that she wanted her boy to know she was really glad to see him. She said I knew she’d be glad to see me but she had to tell Craig. ❤️❤️❤️

So a really lovely busy day and I’m only loading this up at 9.30pm which is late for me. We had a takeaway for dinner and Craig and the pups are crashed out on the couch. I will pass out too shortly.

Lockdown has shown us how important our family and friends are to us. We take people for granted in our busy lives and this has been a chance for us to reflect on all of that. Our relationships matter…. a whole lot.

Stay safe everyone ❤️❤️❤️

I wasn’t ready to wake up at 7.10am today…. still in a really deep sleep when Craig got up and then there was a dog and then that was it really. There is a chance my head’s still in bed…..

We’ve achieved so much during lockdown. It’s great that Craig can do all this stuff as the garden is almost finished now and we did it at minimum cost (apart from the 6 foot fence installed years ago but that is another story!!!) He’s been talking about doing the very back of the garden for ages and I always thought we didn’t really need to….. so glad I finally listened and we decided to do it as it’s like being away on holiday when we’re down there. It doesn’t feel like our garden!

So yeah fair to say that I am quietly thoughtful and reflective today and that’s ok.

When I woke up I did that crazy head thing that women do where we think of a million and one things that need doing. The weather started to turn so I decided to work on the Overland & Borders web page…. the web design page said I have to pay £143 for that privilege, my free trial is over?!? As much as I’d love to have a web page and I’ve done a lot of work on it, it’s not going to be worth £143! I then looked at ways of making money through targeted ads on blogs rather than the random ones that are added in just now…. that wanted a web page… 🤦🏻‍♀️😳 So computer shut down and gave up on that idea… for today!

Instead I chose to tidy out my jewellery boxes…. why, I don’t know but it was a sitting down job… hardly through anything out but just sorted it all out. Craig came in from work and laughed and said, did you take photos…. eh…. no, I never. Should I sack myself now?!?

In some real proactive news I have finally put my lovely Beetle Bug back up for sale, this time on Gumtree and FB marketplace. It was only on Autotrader for 2 weeks right before lockdown started when everyone stopped normal life for a bit. Let’s see what this brings!

Other good news, I had a chat with the Beith Tryst Volunteer co-ordinator and I’m being given another 2 houses to visit tomorrow, so that’s 5 in total. I had told them a few weeks back that one of my regulars was really down so she got extra calls to check up on her. That’s what its all about. Keeping in touch with people who need looking out for. She loves that I chat with them. Well I was never gonna be a deliver and run kinda gal now was I?!?

So it’s my father in laws birthday tomorrow and we are hoping to visit them for the first time with all socially distanced rules in place so I need to keep my chats brief tomorrow… and remember to put the handbrake on in the car every time I stop…. and remember my mask…. and gloves…. what could possibly go wrong?!?!? Guess it just depends who turns up tomorrow… calm and in control Jules or scatty and hair-brained Jules 🤷🏻‍♀️😆

In global pandemic news:

I also read in Sky News today that there is good news and bad news in the UK coronavirus stats… the good news is that the number of excess deaths in the UK is down to the lowest level since the beginning of the epidemic. The term “excess deaths” is the important part. This report so looking at the number of deaths over and above the average for the time of year and that’s where the bad news comes in. The death toll is still mounting.

There have been 63,700 excess deaths since the start of the pandemic and currently only just over 40k of these are recorded as COVID-19 deaths…. does that mean we’ve had a lot more than we think? I keep reading this but it never seems to affect our final numbers. We’re already the highest deaths in Europe but that would take us into another realm. I’m sure other countries had problems with their reporting too… we may never know the true extent of this.

We have become so used to our new normal life that I think we or I personally forget that there are 40,883 or maybe more people who were here in February and early March that have since died. Many of us have been at home for 77 days now. Would you ever have believe that could ever happen? Do you stop and take some time every day to realise the true enormity of what we are facing? It’s unbelievable and yet we are living through this. I say that very lightly as we are just very lucky to have not had anyone we know personally catch it. We know of 2 survivors, family of friends that both had a very tough time of it but kicked COVID’s butt!

Stay safe everyone ❤️❤️❤️

Yeah I know I’ve not mentioned this before because you don’t really but we’ve had crazy silvery patterns on our hall rug every morning for weeks now… there are no trails leading on or off the rug and I’ve lifted it so many times to look it’s unreal.

When you live with dogs and your doors open for about 15-16 hours a day you can’t expect your house to be as lovely as the 2 bedroom flat you lived in on your own before you met hubby…. the flat that you put everything away when you used it and hardly needed to do a clean and tidy as it was always clean and tidy. Yes so I have adapted to my new level of cleanliness…. gradually over the years, some days better than others…. some days I can turn a blind eye to the mayhem.

Strangely I have coped remarkably well with slug living in our hall. For some reason when I woke up for the loo at 4.30am I got the fear and thought to tippy toe over the rug very quickly. Like a light-footed 13.5 stone ninja 😬🤣 and sure enough on my return, Sluggy McSluggerson was doing it’s “thang” just slugging around. I shouted out that I’d finally got the wee f&ckr 🤷🏻‍♀️🤭🤬

Of course after that I was awake for about an hour before I could get over the excitement and fall back to sleep. We were woken this time by small muffled barks or dog yawns…which sound like a cow mooing from our bedroom below the dogs’ room. I tell you, never a dull moment in this house!

So a very productive day, Craig went out to work after all that and I cleaned the living room and the sunroom. Then I reckoned I really needed to sit down… before I fell down and yet I’ve done half of what Craig’s done. Craig says it’s not a competition so that’s good, I’m sat in the sun because I’m tired and it’s not a competition as to who does the most. (We all know it’s a secret competition but I’m allowing him to win, just don’t tell him…)

So on my dog walk today I saw 7 planes…. 2 very high level that seems to be on true same flight path (I really wanted to use the word trajectory here but flight path really does cover it) of course I took a photo!

It seems like things are starting to pick back up as at least 3 flights landed in Glasgow in the hour I was out. I do look at them and wonder who’s on them? Where are people going and why?! We’ve hardly seen any commercial flights over these 11 weeks. Plenty of military and freight planes but that’s been all.

We can only watch and wait and see the outcome of all the Black Lives Matter demonstrations in London and major cities as people have crowded together with not social distancing. 49 police officers were injured as protests turned violent .

The reduction in deaths is great news those as we continue to stay in lockdown on Scotland. It’s still 55 too many. It’s honestly been the strangest of years.

I keep meaning to talk about the price of things during this virus. Craig is having sirloin or rump steaks almost every other night as they are so cheap. I can get them in Asda for £2.75 (rump) and £2.85 (sirloin). There’s an excess of steak due to restaurants being closed.

Fuel is still super cheap due to the fall in the price of oil. It’s just a shame that none of us are really using it! I know the neighbours have all stocked up on oil for their heating due to the cheap pricing.

Stay safe everyone 💜💜💜

Love, love, love Scotland in the sunshine! Thought the forecast was really bad for today but seems that was wrong…. not that I saw the sun first thing. I was in the most amazingly deep sleep…. absolutely sparko but I was vaguely aware of a dog barking. Usually a sign they need out but I’m too comatose to move.

I’m aware of Craig the whirlwind getting up, getting a drink and then letting the dogs out from their room upstairs… whatta great guy. Then he comes thumping back into the bedroom with the 3 of them shouting “where’s your mum?” “ go, get her” and I’m ambushed. 🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾 (that’s exactly the number of paws….☀️)

It’s not an easy awakening… there are sharp claws and lots of licking… and that’s just Craig… honest to god what a baptism of fire being woken by 3 x 20kg puppers…. 😳

I have no photos of the actual event as that would just be wrong…. though I do have have to say I thought about it 🤦🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️👩🏻

So last night we had the most amazing sunset and pink rainbow at about 10pm. I couldn’t get pics from the garden of the rainbow but Rachel 2 doors down got a cracker. 🌈💜🌈

So enough about yesterday 🤣 had a lovely lazy morning over coffee. Did some work down on the messy part of the back of the garden as we are getting some artificial grass delivered to cover it so tried to flatten it out. No photos as you’d probably not notice any difference but I picked all the stones and twigs out ready for covering.

If you’re a regular to my ramblings you may be aware I have a lovely VW Beetle up for sale at the moment… one careful lady owner 🙄😬😆 and really randomly I have been looking at replacing this with a VW camper. It will be ideal for transporting the dogs, a chance to camp inside if needs must rather than a tent and I don’t know but it’s been gnawing away at me for a long time now. I’m not 100% certain why but it just feels right. I’ve been looking for a long time as there are so many configurations, models, prices, layouts etc etc. Before lockdown I was considering setting up a private tour of Scotland for tourists (yeah like obviously…) in my camper van…. with me as the guide. I not certain whether this would still be a possibility of if it would be something for the future. One thing I’ve learned in these last few years is that my gut isn’t often wrong. What will be will be and I need to go with my gut. Worst case if I get one and it doesn’t work out I can resell and not lose anything.

So had a lovely WhatsApp video chat with a lady in Emsworth as she talked us round her VW Transporter. She uses it as a car and makeshift camper. It’s a blank canvas waiting to be done. A wee project for me maybe?! Anyway, I can’t go and pick it up. She knows I’m interested and will let me know if she gets any local buyer. We just have to wait and see if it works out. She wants it to go to a loving home and think she could tell that it would. (Yeah I know us women are loopy!!)

I just wanted to take a moment to thank everyone for the likes, comments etc on my blog. I’m loving doing this. It keeps my thoughts clear in my head and gives me a few hours a day where I can rabbit away in peace and Craig doesn’t have to listen!

I’ll get back to coronavirus tomorrow… stay safe everyone 💜💜💜

Awake at 7.15 this morning, up, coffee and shower, hair DRIED with a HAIR DRYER… an actual hairdryer for the first time in a very long time… you’d think I was making an effort eh?!

Craig has a job in Grangemouth today and Jac lives 10-15 mins away so I thought I’d go up with him so we could catch up.

We put the world to rights in our wee hour and a half. She’s lost 38lbs in the last year with Team RH Fitness and is exercising 6 times a week and walking 15k a day but is looking amazing as a result. I knew how much she’d lost since I last saw her and was worried she would look too thin but she didn’t at all…. she looked healthy and happy and proud of herself. Girl done awfy well!!!! One day I will get there when I put the pizza down….. 🤷🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤣 (I can hear her saying, “you can still eat pizza, I eat pizza, you just need to track it….” 😆😘 I just think that it should really be pizza in moderation!)

I told her that driving past my old work in Falkirk felt really strange to me. Like a huge trip down memory lane… I don’t work there anymore, it goes on without me, they’re successful without me, I walked away from a great salary and a great company that doesn’t need me anymore. Really hard to shake that feeling. That geographic area will always be about that job for me. We talked about how I need to think that I went through all of this because it wasn’t serving me anymore and that actually my life is much better without it. I have orchestrated a new life for myself by no longer accepting the stress it was putting me under…. I know that but it’s just that nagging fear of what once was. I have to admit I wan way happier now than I ever was any day at work. Wow, that’s even a revelation to me.

So we talked the hind legs off a donkey and then had to get back to the Asda car park to meet Craig.

Popped next door to wish Louise a happy 14th and give her a present. She has 2 friends round who’s parents dropped them off for a socially distanced “party”. She’ll not forget this birthday in a hurry.

Claire came into the garden with her own cuppa and we sat like civilised human beings and hat a socially distanced chat on the ground rather than up a ladder! Check us… forgot to take pics tho!

I’m not even gonna look up the Coronavirus stats tonight. I’ve had the loveliest day and I can’t wait to meet up with mum and dad and other people that I haven’t seen for so long. It’s a strange world we live in now. As a hugger I don’t know what to do now when I see people as the urge to hug is very strong!

Leads me to a quick couple of asides…. called mum and dad today to tell them about my meet up with Jac and mum said she is sad that dad is the only person she can hug now.. dad quietly mumbles so is he! They make me laugh! We have decided that Craig is to start proof reading these before I put them out as I’ve had a few typos in the past…. Craig changes to Raif at times…. 🤦🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️ he might start this spellchecker tomorrow! His fault if there are any typos tonight 😆😘

So yeah… she who can’t wake up before 8am normally… wide awake at 4.57am. You know the way that you check if it’s light… yip, it’s light but there’s not many cars passing the window so it must be early…. up for a wee, try to get back to sleep but no….. I’d been dreaming that I was back at my old work except it was like a very crowded call centre. We were sitting at desks beside each other almost shoulder to shoulder. Business was booming and there was a problem and everyone was looking at me for our rules of engagement or something legal…. inside i was laughing thinking how funny it was that they all thought we would be covered legally but inside I was panicking and terrified as I couldn’t give them what they needed. I woke with the fear that I’ve had to walk away from an amazing company, a high paid job and now I am unemployed at a time when lots of other people are too.

I’ve always said that I know this journey is the right one for me and that everything will work out for the best and I don’t have. To busy a gut 12 or 13 hours a day just trying to keep my head above water…. it doesn’t stop the fear from overwhelming me at times.

Don’t know about anyone else but I find shopping quite stressful just now as there’s pressure to pick up things following the one way system round the shop. I worry I miss things or forget something as we don’t just want to have to nip back to the shop for one thing. There’s also still that thing where no one makes eye contact. If you walk past someone you put your head down and rush by. It seems really strange, not that I ever launched into a chat while pushing my trolley but it feels very different.

On the way home I decided to stop at The Little Coffee Caravan at Lochwinnoch roundabout. It only opened a few months before Coronavirus hit and it had to close so I never got a chance to go. It opened up a few weeks back so was locking forward to getting a coffee and a cake on the way home!! Of course I forgot to take a photo of it but…..

They were so lovely…. said that I was so excited and they said that most people are at the moment!! Ordered a coconut milk latte and a piece of Snickers Tiffin cake…. was amazing!!

We got to chatting and you know me, I told them my life story…. well the guy asked if I was furloughed…. but it turns out the girl remembers the dogs from my FB page (when I first followed their page) as her dad used to have Border Collies…. She wanted to know how to pronounce Calaidh (cally) !!

I had been in a pretty rotten mood until then and it just goes to show how a wee chat and a smile can change someone’s day (obvs a bit of chocolate tray bake too!!).

Had a lovely chat with mum and dad on FaceTime. Dad said they’ve decided to separate…. (he was joking!!) and he’s still trying to send mum over here but it’s lovely to hear them laugh as you know they are looking after each other. Talked about how nice it would be to meet up but know it’s still too far at the moment. Maybe in the next phase of lockdown easing. Sent them some photos of the garden and greenhouse! They’ve grown 3 radishes which they had with dinner!

That’s UK up to over 40k deaths at 40,261. They are saying that the South of England and the North West have increasing numbers of virus again with the R number increasing to just over 1. For everyone one person infected, another 1 person gets it. That’s and increase as they were down as low as 0.5-0.6 when they eased the lockdown. There have been protests in London over the George Floyd killing in the US but really government as asking Brits not to demonstrate and risk the spread of the virus. Nicola Sturgeon has also urged Scots not to let the bad weather encourage people to meet in each other’s houses. It’s only ok to meet up to 8 people outside. There’s a strong north westerly wind and rain forecast so meeting folk outside is not gonna be much fun.

Didn’t sleep that well last night, woke up with a clenched jaw and tense shoulders after bad dreams but don’t panic as I stayed in bed for another hour and a half just to make sure I was really ready to get up. 😬

Had leisurely coffee and then set about both bathrooms, inside cupboards and everything. They are sparkling again but it really doesn’t make for a great blog. A shiny “bog” maybe….. 🤷🏻‍♀️🚽🧻🚿🚰🛁🧽🧼🤦🏻‍♀️ I know…. sorry.

Re-useable cotton bud!

For those of you who love a cotton bud…. stop right here… click on the link…. the rest of you just skip on past!! Don’t think I mentioned before but Craig likes to buy things every now and then…. one of his recent gifts to us was the Last Swab!! A reusable cotton bud… means no more added to landfill but your ears are still spotless! I’m amazing. I use it in the shower and wash it clean ready for the next time. A cotton bud revolution…. Craig actually asked if I was struggling for content today 😬😆 the cheek of it 🤭🤔🙄 how dare he…. yes… 😬

I’ve decided to use up some of Jeannie’s old baby wool to make some more baby blankets for Paisley Maternity. Was thinking of giving the wool away but it should be put to good use!

There were a total of 1,805 new cases yesterday and 505 people were admitted to hospitals with COVID-19. There are still 7,312 people in hospital too. I was quite surprised by that…. there was a further 176 deaths taking our total to 39,904. England announced tonight that from the 15th June everyone travelling on public transport must wear a face covering. You should avoid public transport if you can.

Scotland have not yet decided that face masks will be essential but it is fairly likely that we will go down that route too.

The pandemic is taking hold in Brazil in the Amazon with Sky News reporting that they are so overwhelmed that people are dying in their beds. Brazil had the second highest number of cases in the world behind the US. There is a backlog of burials and gravediggers never stop digging. As I read up on this I still think we hid a lot of this news in the UK as our journey through this seems to have been downplayed where the news stories around the world haven’t been. I maybe just missed it…

So, Craig bought me a hat today…. very lovely of him and most likely because I’ve been pinching his Tilley hat and Jeep cap when we’ve been out in the sun! It’s a Tarp Hat (I actually typed Tart Hat there 🤣😂🤣🤣🤣).

Stay safe everyone ❤️❤️❤️

As a result of the above… we were in bed and asleep before 9pm last night. He announced at half 7 we’d watch another Westworld then he wanted an early night. That just made my day!!! Actually woke up before 8am this morning, by myself with no dog barking or husband sneaking around… result. It’s a new day…. the breeze is up… it’s been raining and it’s much cooler but it’s still nice when the sun shines.

So Craig’s off out to work today for the first time in over 10 weeks. He is ok to meet with clients now as long as they are outside with 2m of physical distance. He had to drive to Hillington which was a novelty. Well I thought it was but he probably didn’t…..

Got home and had a shower and washed my hair ready to go out.on the food bank deliveries. Can I just recommend to all women that if you usually get your eyebrows done… don’t do what I did and look at what’s on your face right now… oh my actual god. I’ve not noticed them up until now but now I can’t unsee what I saw!!! Put jeans and a T-shirt on to look respectable and volunteering went well. No handbrake incidents this week. Think lockdown has played havoc with my short term memory though as I was meant to stop at a neighbours and pick up some bags for the Beith Trust… I drove straight past her house while wondering who the lady was on the other side of the street…. then thought I’d pop back between drop off 1 and 2… nope drove straight past the road end and finally remembered 3rd time lucky….. honestly?!?!

Home and had lunch and helped Craig plant some ridiculously hot chillis he’s ordered! Serrano, Cayenne, Golden Cayenne and Bulgarian Carrot….. 🌶🌶🌶🌶 think they are all pretty hot. Other than that I’ve just been lazing in Grans chair in the sun room, writing this, oh met Claire for a coffee up the ladder over the fence for 10 mins.

Sky news are reporting a further 359 deaths in the last 24 hours taking our total to 39,728. I guess by tomorrow we’ll be over the 40k mark…. that’s 40,000 people that were living a life before this virus hit us. It’s quite a sobering thought. There are demonstrations going on all over the world about the death of George Floyd in America, the news is dominated by that today rather than Coronavirus. Black Lives Matter protests are taking place in lots of major cities across the world. Sadly the protests seem to be huge groups of people all congregating together. The reports doesn’t show much distance between anyone… it’s a really sad time.

Another quiet night in for us and we might go to bed late…. like 10pm?!?

Stay safe everyone 🧡🧡🧡

Last night after the girls finished on the slip and slide our neighbour Colin invited us to his new decking for socially distanced drinks. We took our own chairs and glasses and drink to make sure we didn’t cross contaminate anything and had a lovely wee catch up, first time in about 3 months. We came home just after 8 and sat out until about 10,30pm. It did get a wee bit chilly and I had to wrap up in my crochet blanket!

Over drinks earlier Colin invited Craig to go and see his yacht in Ardrossan Harbour. I wasn’t going to go but decided I couldn’t miss the photo opportunity!

It’s raining!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😱😱😨

Sitting outside when we came home having a late bite of lunch and it’s started to rain so we are just gonna sit here and not move…. sitting through it!

We had to give in and sit inside eventually… didn’t like indoors lockdown before!!

So I want to say something about all the photos I have posted so that you can understand a bit more about how bad our minds are and how we speak to ourselves. Unless I am on a diet and very thin which hasn’t been often in my life, I have a shocking self body image. I took one look at these photos and said to Craig “well I’ll not be posting any of them… they’re shocking” he apologised….. none of it is his fault… I have yet to embrace my size 16 shape. I’m not typing this for anyone to tell me otherwise but I feel I look awful this size. Yet I have posted loads of them…. my counselling has shown me that I need to learn to accept what is… accept the size I am to love myself before I can move on. That is sooooooooo difficult to do. Headshots I think…. hmmmmmmm yeah that’ll do but anything below that and I am horrified. I don’t feel this size so I’m shocked when I see myself. The hardest part of all this is that all through my life I have felt fat… what I wouldn’t give to be like that again!!! Yet I know how to do it and just can’t just now. For a million reasons I just don’t have the energy… I managed 15k steps for a good few days, others I’ve managed 10k and others I’ve been scared to look. My diet is pretty shocking, just laziness, but I have to just take one day at a time and know that whatever will be will be and it’s ok. It’s ok to be heavier, it’s not the end of the world… just so long as no one takes photos of me 🤦🏻‍♀️😱 all joking aside, I know it will come when the time is right, the weight will fall off as fast as it went on and until that day I need to deal with, sorry be proud of who I am. I thought this might be a wee step in that direction.

Interesting to read that New Zealand are considering lifting lockdown next week after 11 days with no new cases of COVID-19z we have 436 new hospital admissions and I read somewhere that this was just for England… yet our lockdown is easing? Guess we just have to wait and see what that means for the UK.

Needless to say after yesterday’s walk I slept like a log and couldn’t open my eyes when Craig got up. He crept about like a wee mouse 🐁 and shut all the doors so I didn’t wake up. So much more thoughtful than I was yesterday. 😆 (the fact that I know he did it all kinda says it all but you know… we’ll give him this one!)

Reminds me of something I did the other day…. we have 3 baskets in the bathroom that we keep toiletries in. One of them (the middle one… Craig’s one… of course!) was full to overflowing and the lid didn’t sit on top… it was driving me mad.

So up and tidied the kitchen and fed the dogs. Outside for coffee and admiring the garden!

I suggested we take a dog walk up the end of the road to the Trearne Quarry. We’ve not been there for years. It’s the site of the old Trearne House.

Have to say it looks really nice in the photos but actually the earth was really soft and riddled with bits of plastic, grass, metal, you name it. The water that is there now is stagnant and looks pretty rotten just like the end of a puddle… and it stinks… so all in all not the best place for the dogs. Think I might go back and explore one day without them.

So back home for a lazy day in the sun I think. It’s so hot. The forecast says a maximum of 21 but it’s been hotter than that for days! I’ve already done two loads of washing and they are dry within an hour. Not sure if folk in warmer climates realise how long it takes us Scots to dry washing in the winter??! Days and days….

Craig’s away down to the Co-op while in lie with my head in the shade and my back in the sun trying to tan the ever elusive back of legs…. actually I’m writing this and I’m finding it can take up to 3 hours out of my day. It’s definitely faster the earlier I do it. If I wait until evening it’s like being on line with the old dial up!!!

In coronavirus news England are easing their lockdown from today and yet it’s different to what we have in Scotland. Our First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, is urging us not to be confused by what Boris Johnson is releasing in England as Scotland is a few weeks behind as our virus spread happened after England.

Over the weekend there have been so many reports of huge gatherings down south. An illegal party in East London. A protest in London for American George Floyd who was asphyxiated by police in the States, beaches have been mobbed. In Scotland police had to issue 797 dispersal notices over the weekend with tourist hot spots like Glencoe and Loch Lomond heaving. We are only meant to be outdoors within 5 miles from our houses. No way all of that is caused by locals up there.

Stay safe everyone ❤️❤️❤️