I watched the Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Germany 🇩🇪 game last night.

Unheard of… me, wanting to watch football, but I felt we were on the cusp of something great and I didn’t want to miss out.

As Scotland fans we learn that is not always the case.

We were all ready for action!

Especially Bhruic who watches every football game on tv. 😂

Even Calaidh’s wondering what’s going on.

And now Freya’s joining in.

Sadly it was a pretty shocking game on Scotland’s behalf.

I’d even put on my old Scotland top but we lost, fairly spectacularly… though it could have been much worse than 5-1.

I am not a football fan. The sound of a game irritates me, I’d rather not be anywhere near it when it’s on TV. I switched off at the end of the first half and went to bed.

I slept pretty well but woke up at 5.16am and never really went back to sleep.

Stop waking me mum she says….

Actually it’s more like, thank god I got that cone off!!

I let Khaleesi out then took the 3 Borders for a walk.

The pub still has their Scotland flags out. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

It was a lovely sunny morning. Cool but really beautiful. It was 6.30am and I saw no one… not even a car!

More flags.

I slept in the Scotland top and am still wearing it this morning. Think the last time I wore this was 2008 🤦🏻‍♀️😂

Everything is so overgrown, it looks lovely.

It’s lovely to see the sun and everything is covered in the morning dew… or overnight rain!

Wouldn’t be a Julie walk without a gate.

Something smells seriously good here.

I planned to jog with the dogs but sadly wore the wrong bra…. Epic fail… I did try but it was not happening.

Thought this was pretty cool…. It seems to be a voluntary organisation.

Not every day you see that.

Very old gate, disappearing in the weeds.

For the life of me I can’t remember what this is called…. But it’s flowering in the garden, it’s really pretty.

Scotland’s Tough Mudder was today at Drumlanrig Castle. I was thinking about taking someone’s place this week but realised I really needed to be here for the dogs as Craig is away.

Funny how you really want to do something, until you can and then find a million reasons not to. I took photos of them all outside the pub before they left.

I wanted to enjoy the weekend slowly and I think if I’d done TM it would have taken up a lot of yesterday with prep, then today with the run and tomorrow with the recovery. Instead I’ve enjoyed blitzing the house and spending time with the dogs.

Gayle asked me to pop into the shop this morning which was lovely. Her customers are all so nice. I miss chatting to them.

I was home by 1.30 and have spent the rest of the afternoon, finishing off cleaning the rooms I didn’t do yesterday.

The house is now too clean for any of us to live in. The puppers and I are in the back garden while the floors dry 😂 just as well it’s sunny. I have cone dog at my feet.

Her wound is healing nicely and I hope she can lose the cone in the next day or so. She has way more energy now that she is not doped up with doggy tramadol. I can feel the strength in her pull as we head outside sometimes. If she gets excited, there’s a wee spring in her step. She’s doing so well.

Mr A is having a great time in Munich, currently sitting in a beer garden with seats for 8,000 people!!

Oh and how lovely, my neighbour Holly has made me a Saturday night takeaway of Vegetable curry and garlic naan. How kind of her?!?! So that’s me sorted.

I’m so peaceful just now, I love it.

When you suffer from anxiety periodically, you are so grateful for the moments of peace and calm. Obviously, living by myself if a huge help as I can control everything that happens this weekend and especially now that I’ve cleaned….

I’ve made a conscious effort to focus on the positive.

It really does help if you can change your mindset to focus on gratitude and being thankful, rather than negativity and lack.

Right enough blogging mumma, the floors must be dry, where’s our dinner?!?!

Best go.

Another lovely day!

Enjoy your Saturday night.

Stay safe everyone ♥️♥️♥️