The greatly awaited pleasant surprise failed to materialise - arrived at Morrison Street , pride of NCP , to find the piles of hardcore sitting like grey sand dunes in the surrounding lakes, mud everywhere, and not a shovel to be seen - perhaps they have all gone off sick with sore backs, blisters on their hands, etc.
My mate Danny reckons that the man with fag in hand was traditional with the Royal Nay in days of yore, unfortunately I thought he was an idle bugger with too much money to spend.
On the way in this morning I popped in to see how George the Handyman was faring at The Bush in his quest for clear water !!! No half measures here, the small hole was five feet deep , and the broken 4" water pipe had been traced and fixed. I had a look at the section of this pipe which had been cut off ( photo later) and it was quite well lined with sediment, now hardened over the years.
The girls in the main building were horrified at the thought of their drinking water coming though this dirty old pipe - so they are off to buy wee water purifiers.
Typing this in The Mercat, while waiting for Andy KP to arrive as we are off up to Crieff to a meeting of the Starthearn RA, couple of lectures on tonight that I have never heard before - so we will have a nice steady run up around 5.30 p.m. or so. Had we been able to get away sooner I had thought of going up either via the Falkirk Wheel, The St Andrews Brewery at Bridge of Allan or even popping into the Glenturret Distillery Visitor centre for a wee look.
Eleanora, or Italian student is working today ( sorry about the shaky photo), she is going back to Milan in a couple of weeks to try and resit her English language exam at University , then back for more practice. David and Jamie are experimenting in the kitchen with bread and butter pudding. - tastes lovely .
I see that Princess Kerrin is off on her travels with her new job on the Cruise Liners and is having a farewell bash on 30th January. at the Wiremills Club , Musselburgh . I am sure she will have a good time.
Just checking out my tracker and I see that our Sri Lankan friends, Chandana and Chandrika , presently living and working in Liberec, near Prague have been on site , so they obviously received their X-mas card. From the bits on the news recently it looks as though the troubles in Sri lanka between the Tamil terrorists and the government may well be coming to a head with some discussions taking place. it can only be good for the country.
My mate Danny reckons that the man with fag in hand was traditional with the Royal Nay in days of yore, unfortunately I thought he was an idle bugger with too much money to spend.
On the way in this morning I popped in to see how George the Handyman was faring at The Bush in his quest for clear water !!! No half measures here, the small hole was five feet deep , and the broken 4" water pipe had been traced and fixed. I had a look at the section of this pipe which had been cut off ( photo later) and it was quite well lined with sediment, now hardened over the years.
The girls in the main building were horrified at the thought of their drinking water coming though this dirty old pipe - so they are off to buy wee water purifiers.
Typing this in The Mercat, while waiting for Andy KP to arrive as we are off up to Crieff to a meeting of the Starthearn RA, couple of lectures on tonight that I have never heard before - so we will have a nice steady run up around 5.30 p.m. or so. Had we been able to get away sooner I had thought of going up either via the Falkirk Wheel, The St Andrews Brewery at Bridge of Allan or even popping into the Glenturret Distillery Visitor centre for a wee look.
Eleanora, or Italian student is working today ( sorry about the shaky photo), she is going back to Milan in a couple of weeks to try and resit her English language exam at University , then back for more practice. David and Jamie are experimenting in the kitchen with bread and butter pudding. - tastes lovely .
I see that Princess Kerrin is off on her travels with her new job on the Cruise Liners and is having a farewell bash on 30th January. at the Wiremills Club , Musselburgh . I am sure she will have a good time.
Just checking out my tracker and I see that our Sri Lankan friends, Chandana and Chandrika , presently living and working in Liberec, near Prague have been on site , so they obviously received their X-mas card. From the bits on the news recently it looks as though the troubles in Sri lanka between the Tamil terrorists and the government may well be coming to a head with some discussions taking place. it can only be good for the country.
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