A proper day off!

Yesterday we visited the Willows Animal Sanctuary at Strichen. Zac got to see pigs, horses, sheep, goats, ducks, hens, rabbits, turkeys, a peacock et al.

He still seems to think Grandma is the funniest animal around.

Breakfasts.

I had a comment from Eugenio on my blog. So I had a look at his. He tells us of the 'breakfast' he serves at his b&b in Italy.

Offered at our breakfast table every morning is the following:

Cereal, yoghurt, fresh fruit and fresh squeezed fruit juices.

Porridge

Scottish Breakfast smoothie

Grilled Peterhead Kipper fillets

Scrambled eggs and smoked salmon

Poached eggs and Home made Tattie Scones and Bacon

Scottish Cooked Breakfast (free range egg, dry cured bacon, black pudding, sliced haggis, Aberdeen Angus sausage, fresh tomato, baked beans, fried bread and mushrooms)

Toast, Home made marmalade and jams.

Chocolate Muffins.

Vive la difference!

Happy Anniversary!

Twenty nine years - thats more than a life sentence!

Mike and I persuaded our American golfer guest to hold the fort while we went out for a meal.

I don't remember coming home so it must have been a good one.

Summer Time.

All the cows out in the fields now, some with a calf at foot. The sheep have been sheared and still have their woolly lambs with them. The crops are growing. And so are my weeds. In fact, speaking of cows, I cannot see my patio for cow parsley. Because of course the summer time sends the tourists in droves....no time for weeding.
We seem to have a strong attraction to the Italians this year. We always have a few but this year lots and lots have booked in with us, July and August. The Americans have returned so the credit crunch must be easing.
No time now for decorating - just keeping up with the cleaning, ironing, bed changes and biscuit making. etc. etc.
I am going to have to fence off my patio. This year for the first time our guests have taken to wandering round the garden, which includes of course the patio outside my bedroom. Now my bedroom is lucky to get a swift vac if the force is still with me - rarely -and it could never be described as a clean, calm, tranquil space - and, more to the point the guests all have digital cameras.... Well so do I, but you may have noticed, or not, that I never, ever show you pictures of my bedroom. As any guest who wanders that far round the garden turns swiftly away with colour draining from their face I think I can feel fairly satisfied that they havent taken any pictures in my bedrooms direction either.

Pity I had to be labelled...

Rather spoils the effect.

Mike and I at the Charter Dinner for the Rotary Club of Central Buchan.