I switched on earlier to see if I could see the dress, but guests were arriving. I noted a little girl having her photo taken with David Beckham, but I'm sure she was wondering who the miserable looking stick insect was who was beside him. I bet Mrs Beckham was livid.
Surprised to see that old title being revived. As a true Son of the Rock born in Dumbarton I feel a little more entitled I can claim to have been born behind Jackie Stewart's garage - their family business was a garage at Dumbuck and the road up to the grand mansion house at the foot of the Kilpatrick hills which was being used as a maternity hospital starts around there.
I thought Mr Beckham looked OK until he got all the tattoos. Now , when he's dressed up, he looks like a thug up before the judge. Just watched the BBC A to Z of Chelsea show from last week. Can someone tell the BBC that the RHS Pavilion at Chelsea only has one L in it. Not P for Pavillion. Gutter man phoned up. He's coming tomorrow now. Something to do with a ladder. I'm betting on a BBQ this afternoon. M&S had run out of cake at 9.30 this morning, and people in Lidl were fighting over £2.99 bottles or red vino (rationed to 6 bottles per customer.) Meanwhile in my garden, the weather is glorious.
M&S had run out of cake at 9.30 this morning, and people in Lidl were fighting over £2.99 bottles or red vino (rationed to 6 bottles per customer.) Meanwhile in my garden, the weather is glorious.
Ah - the human race fidget - aren't they wonderful! Been lovely here too - got a lot done. Breezy for a while but all the better when you're busy lifting , dividing, carting stuff around. Pain about 'your man'.... doc - I think we can allow you. She is an actress after all.... Steephill [nice to 'see' you] I used to know the people who owned that hotel at Dumbuck - a few decades ago. Not sure if they still own it. Would I pass that big house coming from Erskine Bridge towards Dumbarton, or is it on the other, Milngavie/Drymen, side?
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Fairygirl, some details of the house here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overtoun_House It is up behind the large quarry just before Dumbarton on the A82. The labour room is now a tearoom still with the cherubs on the ceiling which my mother remembered and told me about years later. Great views over Dumbarton Castle and the Clyde and up Loch Lomond from the grounds, the Kilpatrick Hills make a dramatic backdrop too.
I was indeed born there. They used to say that most people were actually born in the ambulance on the way up there as the road was in such a bad state they got shaken out! Must pop in next time I'm up as it would be rather strange to be in the room again where I first came into the world.
My first "proper" hillwalking expedition was up the Kilpatrick Hills past the house in waist deep snow and whiteout blizzard conditions at the tender age of 13.
Busy day today. H****work all morning as it really needed doing then lunch and off to visit new friends the other side of the village, equally far out and in a wee hamlet so very calm and green and spacious. They're in their 30s so still young and full of energy which they'll need as they're renovating their house themselves and have a lot of land to sort out too but two young daughters, two full time jobs and family activities make them time poor. Lots of plans tho and we will have spare plants to help build their stocks and she is very good on wild flora and fauna tho can do without the roe deer eating her roses!
Home now and off to do a second coat on that wardrobe so it can cure tomorrow while we're out garden visiting with the garden club. Need to make a cake or some biscuits for that and a picnic.
Don't understand the run on cakes and wine. Does nobody plan? Does nobody bake? Saw the wedding briefly while making lunch. Nice frock - simple, elegant and, above all, not a meringue! Headed off for a shower just after the Episcopalean started......
Fidget - I hope you get everything done in time and in order and to your satisfaction. Sounds like a big job.
FG - pity about your hill but you seem to have got lots done.
Liri - go easy with that finger!
Greetings everyone.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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Spent most of the day spreading top soil, raking said top soil, tramping it down, raking it again, tramping it down again and walking to and from the shop with the extra bags I required and repeating the process. I did spend a fair bit of time sticking my head through the window (opened) to have a look at the wedding, Her Majesty the Queen was looking well, but I thought auld Phil looked a bit.....well.....old I suppose. Wasn't much interested in the Z listers and their ilk that the Beeb were fawning over, but it was expected I suppose. Just made a lovely wee curry and now it's feet up and relax time.
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I noted a little girl having her photo taken with David Beckham, but I'm sure she was wondering who the miserable looking stick insect was who was beside him.
I bet Mrs Beckham was livid.
Just watched the BBC A to Z of Chelsea show from last week. Can someone tell the BBC that the RHS Pavilion at Chelsea only has one L in it. Not P for Pavillion.
Gutter man phoned up. He's coming tomorrow now. Something to do with a ladder. I'm betting on a BBQ this afternoon.
M&S had run out of cake at 9.30 this morning, and people in Lidl were fighting over £2.99 bottles or red vino (rationed to 6 bottles per customer.)
Meanwhile in my garden, the weather is glorious.
Been lovely here too - got a lot done. Breezy for a while but all the better when you're busy lifting , dividing, carting stuff around.
Pain about 'your man'....
doc - I think we can allow you. She is an actress after all....
Steephill [nice to 'see' you] I used to know the people who owned that hotel at Dumbuck - a few decades ago. Not sure if they still own it. Would I pass that big house coming from Erskine Bridge towards Dumbarton, or is it on the other, Milngavie/Drymen, side?
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Looks fabulous. Were you born in it when it was a maternity hospital then?
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Home now and off to do a second coat on that wardrobe so it can cure tomorrow while we're out garden visiting with the garden club. Need to make a cake or some biscuits for that and a picnic.
Don't understand the run on cakes and wine. Does nobody plan? Does nobody bake? Saw the wedding briefly while making lunch. Nice frock - simple, elegant and, above all, not a meringue! Headed off for a shower just after the Episcopalean started......
Fidget - I hope you get everything done in time and in order and to your satisfaction. Sounds like a big job.
FG - pity about your hill but you seem to have got lots done.
Liri - go easy with that finger!
Greetings everyone.