Ishbel and I continue to enjoy a very quiet week reading in the garden and then taking a wee trip out to somewhere interesting. In the morning we paint and then in the afternoon we head off.
When at Waterstones earlier this week I bought Richard Coles recent book (his first novel but not his first book) called 'Murder Before Evensong'. So far it reminds me of Alexander McCall-Smith but set in the Anglican Church community.
Quite by accident I opened a bottle of my favourite wine, Fitou. After tasting it (exceedingly good and better than my usual purchases) I found it to be 2017. I resolved to be more selective in my purchases i.e. spend a bit more and get a bottle that has been aged longer!)
Gerry, across the road, turned up at the door with a tub of his just-picked gooseberries. That calls for gooseberry pie (maybe apple and gooseberry?) as I think I am, as usual, the only who will eat it.
For our afternoon jaunt Ish and I drove to Campsie Glen and walked up to the little waterfalls at the head of the glen. On the way back we explored the very old, very large and very neglected churchyard. This inscription caught my eye. It refers to one McFarlane Esq whose life's purpose was to 'do good'. It struck a chord as that is what McCall-Smith often writes about, and of course, so did Iris Murdoch:
And finally, the work of a long forgotten stone-mason caught my eye.
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