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Aug. 1st, 2020 03:20 pmHoliday time: we set off on Monday for Auchinleck, where we will help D. celebrate his birthday on Wednesday. Almost two years ago, D. reserved a big house in Scotland, and started inviting people to join him there, and in the interom there have been changes: but ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
durham_rambler and I will join D. and valydiarosada for five days in residence at the grand house, where some others will join us in a more or less semo-detached way. Then on Friday the four of us will decamp to a less grand cottage on the isle of Bute for the weekend. Thereafter durham_rambler and I will take the scenic route home, spending a couple of night on the outskirts of Falkirk (in a glamping pod, whetever that may be).
In princile, therefore, I won't be online much for the next week and a hald: with luck I will be enjoying beautiful Scotland, and being sociable (at a permitted distance). Indeed, Auchinleck House is a Landmark Trust property, and they are a bit precious about wifi and getting away from it all - though what withdurham_rambler's phone and a nearby farm shop / café, I don't expect to be completely cut off. It may rain - this is Scotland, it may indeed rain - but I will pack books.
That's the next thing, then, packing. THere is one last batch of laundry in the machine, and a few shirts to iron from the previous batch. Since we are self-catering all the way, I need to sort out what I want to take, but groceries and vegetables have been delivered today, and cheese irdered, and we have wine - though I yhave beed putting aside bottles which D. might enjoy for long enough that it may be tricky weeding out theoes to be left behind (had all gone to plan, we would have drunk some of them on Londisfarne).
D. andvalydiarosada will overnight here tomorrow on their way north, so there's a certain amount of frantic housework going on: those people who reacted to lockdown by spring cleaning their homes? they are not us. But durham_rambler has been hoovering and floorwashing, and some durfaces have been cleared, and all shall be well. O even cleared a collection's worth (a bin-full) of garden waste. My jungle, let me show it to you:
durham_rambler and I will join D. and valydiarosada for five days in residence at the grand house, where some others will join us in a more or less semo-detached way. Then on Friday the four of us will decamp to a less grand cottage on the isle of Bute for the weekend. Thereafter durham_rambler and I will take the scenic route home, spending a couple of night on the outskirts of Falkirk (in a glamping pod, whetever that may be).In princile, therefore, I won't be online much for the next week and a hald: with luck I will be enjoying beautiful Scotland, and being sociable (at a permitted distance). Indeed, Auchinleck House is a Landmark Trust property, and they are a bit precious about wifi and getting away from it all - though what with
durham_rambler's phone and a nearby farm shop / café, I don't expect to be completely cut off. It may rain - this is Scotland, it may indeed rain - but I will pack books.That's the next thing, then, packing. THere is one last batch of laundry in the machine, and a few shirts to iron from the previous batch. Since we are self-catering all the way, I need to sort out what I want to take, but groceries and vegetables have been delivered today, and cheese irdered, and we have wine - though I yhave beed putting aside bottles which D. might enjoy for long enough that it may be tricky weeding out theoes to be left behind (had all gone to plan, we would have drunk some of them on Londisfarne).
D. and
valydiarosada will overnight here tomorrow on their way north, so there's a certain amount of frantic housework going on: those people who reacted to lockdown by spring cleaning their homes? they are not us. But durham_rambler has been hoovering and floorwashing, and some durfaces have been cleared, and all shall be well. O even cleared a collection's worth (a bin-full) of garden waste. My jungle, let me show it to you:
