MILNGAVIE: THE ALLADER IN FLOOD DECEMBER 5, 2015

It has been raining ...which is kind of normal in this, the west coast of Scotland.  However it has been very bad as seen in the photos below.  This is the Allander flooding at Tesco's in Milngavie.

 The entrance to Tesco's from the car park adjacent to the train station.

The Fish Gate

It was very frightening standing on the bank watching and listening to the water roaring down the Fish Gate. The Violence of Nature!

PUZZLES

On a Tuesday after school we have Alastair (7) and Ishie (8) for a couple of hours. Now that the days are dark and it is too wet for the playpark behind the house we light the fire in the living room and get out the jigsaw to help pass the time at the wrong end of the day!

When Mairi arrives with Harriet (2 1/2) and Ellie (9 months) they are keen to 'help'!  Iain is in the centre.

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I have been very busy preparing material for various publications for the yachting scene.  This photo, for public use, came across my desk; it is of a lovely big classic yacht Mariquita sailing in the Mediterranean last year.

Using Photoshop to make a mosaic tile effect I thought it would make a good jigsaw.

And the same thing goes for this photo I took at the Prizegiving and Dinner Dance held last Saturday. That is the Clyde Cruising Club burgee placed on a side table which functioned as the Photo Corner. The red and green tartan fabric underneath is a pipe band piper's all wool plaid (2 metres in length) three of which I had purchased in the Barras some 40 years ago!  

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And talking about puzzles ...  I couldn't understand why after the family left on Tuesday I heard some weird noises when I put on the washing machine the next morning.

In amongst the dirty bibs, the two Betty Crocker Icing-covered kids' aprons were .... a fistful of teaspoons. (M-m-m-m ... I wonder what the collective noun is for teaspoons?)  

Let me guess ... a Little Harriet Person seems to be able to get into the cutlery drawer now!

 

A TIME AND A PLACE FOR THE TRICOLOUR

We think of our friends in Paris and join others around the world in expressing our horror at the bombing of 129 innocent people.

Tonight at Wembly stadium the football match between England and France is more about a show of solidarity for peace and accord.

A crowd of more than 70,000 sang La Marseillaise, the French national anthem,  in front of the Duke of Cambridge and Prime Minister David Cameron. 

A BAD SOCK DAY

It has not been a great week. Iain and I both feeling under par as we have colds, coughs etc etc.  Half the population seem to have it at the moment. I wonder if is related to the very claggy, damp West of Scotland weather which has featured these past weeks? 

If you're 2 years old I guess all that rain is quite immaterial!

I thought we might be seeing a budding ballerina yesterday as Harriet, Our Little Beauty, gets ready to go the the playpark.