FUN AND NONSENSE

Birthday card from Mairi and John ...!

SPRING COLOUR

Lovely weather has brought on the flowers. The last of the trees are turning green and the spring flowers are appearing everywhere.

ONE YEAR AT A TIME

There is a Beatles song that comes to mind today. Click here.

Will you still need me? Will you still feed me? When I'm sixty-four!

AND FURTHERMORE

This blog is one year old. Thoughts: It is really about keeping a diary using photos as the basis. I have, indeed, managed to keep it up fairly regularly and if I couldn't it was because I was away from the (or any) computer or ill. Lack of material has never been a problem. Mostly I use photographs as the starting point. I like the work of preparing a blog; I never quite know the direction a topic will take me... much of the time I happily head 'off at a tangent'. Maybe this reflects a grasshopper mind. I like to think it is more about curiosity.

With those few words I am now offf on another tangent, i.e. to Colin's concert at the Cathedral. It's my birthday treat.

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Beattles record sleeve: www.playmelenara.com

THE TURNING OF THE TIDE

Having sold our house to Mairi and John and the 2 babes, we are planning to move to Helensburgh (sur mer).

So down-sizing has started (the first step being to get a flat and then take time to look for a smaller place to live).

I checked out a flat that seemed to fill the bill - Iain is away in the Outer Hebrides and out of radio and phone contact - so Mairi (our Property Baron) and Maggie (on the mobile) and I made an executive decision: go for it!

It will be a 6 month let in Larchfield, Colquhoun Street, Helensburgh. The building is actually Lomond School, built in 1858, which has been converted and the Headmaster's rooms are the ones we will occupy. They are the lower right corner. If one can live on a boat one can probably camp out in a smallish flat. At least the car, well, our 2 cars actually, will be off the street.

Three blocks from Helensburgh Central train station and the 'downtown' meets the necessary bottom line. Now I am off to look for a Pashley (Miss Marple wannabe) bike.

Helensburgh is going to be perfect: a cross between Vancouver (with its setting on the sea) and Salmon Arm (small town, i.e. community with a heart, or centre, as opposed to the suburbs).