Last night I took Khaleesi in with me.

There was a lot of washing drying in her room and I didn’t want her breathing in all that damp air. Here she is all colourful wrapped up and ready for bed.

Yes I know she is “just a dog”… I never did this with the rest of them. 😆 she just seems like she might need it!

I woke this morning to a lovely red glow on the wall of the room…. I looked out and saw this… not the best photo but you get the idea!

So poor Khaleesi got dragged out to witness it in all its glory.

She’s still so excited when we pass the village hall gardens…. She saw a squirrel here once and she thinks she’ll see it every time we pass!

What a beautiful morning. It’s cold but not unbearably so.

This is the tree that’s the focal point of a couple of my Aurora photos.

The photos don’t do it justice, it was so vibrant!

The pylons again.

Doesn’t the village look really pretty in the sunrise this morning. Soooo pink 💕

Then I took Calaidh and Freya for a big walk. The sun looks so lovely in the sky but it’s only about 3-4°C. It is cold.

The trees look so dark.

Two of my favourite trees… I loved this horizon in lockdown.

It wasn’t as dark as these photos make out.

These guys were comical…. They walked right out to see us and then had a good nosy over the fence. I posted a funny video on The Rambling Sloth Instagram. They made me smile.

Twinning!!

And then there were even more cows… these ones came running over to the gate too. So inquisitive.

I start making the green lentil ragu in my new frying pan…

The next field was full of sheep, been a while since I’ve been down this way.

I had such a lovely walk… I felt so alive in the silence. It was so calm and peaceful. Only two cars passed me in the whole time I was out.

I saw this..

I can’t tell you how much this spoke to me.

Waking up to my life just how I left it the night before.

No blackouts, no arguments, no fear.

I get to experience all of this with a fresh head… all before 9am. My life has changed so muchZzz I’m in bed by 9-9.30 most nights ready for morning, my favourite time of the day.

The early bird catches the worm.

This farm is ready for winter. This is amazing wall of silage… again the photo hasn’t done it justice. It’s massive.

I can see all the sun over to Arran from here… despite the clouds, it’s a clear day.

I’m back home from the dog walks and it’s only 9.15am.

I light the fire and settle down with my laptop. I have so many photos on the iCloud that they are now trying to charge me £8.99 a month for storage. I thought I’d clear it up and remove some onto a hard drive.

I was at it for about 3 hours…. Didn’t seem to achieve anything in that time. I think I have too many photos to be able to load them onto a laptop to be able to get them onto a memory stick…. Anyway, I will figure that out somehow… or just pay the £8.99 a month.

Then I went to a cash machine to test the new PIN number for the Memorial Hall bank account. (If you read last weekend, I locked myself out of the bank as I keyed in the wrong pin 3 times…. Then remembered the pin and can’t forget it!!)

Argh, it did not work. They told me it had to be a LINK cash machine. This is my 3rd cash machine and it still says the card is not supported by the ATM…

Calaidh’s face says it all.

This drives me insane with frustration. I made a simple mistake and now I’m having to jump through hoops to try and rectify it…. Things like this stress me out way more than they should. My head is RAGING at me for being so stupid…. I’m sure the process to rectify takes longer than it should, just so that I can beat myself up for it. I will have to try and call the bank again tomorrow and I’m sure they will tell me I just have to keep trying a LINK machine… failing that, I’ll have to try and get to a branch.

Then I come home to make a vegan lasagne, from a recipe I saw…. Somewhere…. Could I find the recipe?!?!? I looked everywhere on my phone. Back to last Sunday when I found the recipe…. Couldn’t find it anywhere, spent a half hour trying when I suddenly remembered a recipe book I’d been looking at. 🤦🏻‍♀️

I opened the book and found it. just like that…

His frying pan was apparently reduced from £39 to £13.50….

Then I realise I did not pick up tins of chopped tomatoes…… ugh….

Of course I realise while I’m cooking…. Big sigh.

Thankfully I messaged Holly next door when she was at the supermarket and she got me some!

So I sat down to watch a movie as the ragu is cooking…. It’s safe enough in front of a movie. The ragu should take 33-35 minutes, it’s been on the go for over an hour!!

Craig and Bhru are nearly home. They had a much warmer night with a wee electric heater. I think they’ve had a lovely day making the most of a long drive home.

My lasagne is now in the oven… I’m not sure how it will go.. I watered the ragu down so much.. but hey.. I made a lovely dinner so I will eat it.

Hope you all had a lovely weekend.

Stay safe everyone ♥️♥️♥️