Dung!!!!!

Our Third Wednesday girls had our Christmas walk and lunch today. We travelled by train to Busby, only three stops away, then walked back via country lanes and roads. The weather was dull but not wet, but we really brightened things up with our Santa hats, reindeer heatsets, tinsel around us, etc. etc. etc. As there were twenty four of us we caused a bit of a stir; when we left Busby we had to walk a little along the pavement of the busy road, and cars, buses and lorries were all sounding their horns at us...... and of course we were waving like mad. It was good fun, we are really far too old for this kind of thing, but what the heck. We travelled up through the lovely village of Carmunnock, to the West Kittoch Farm, which is the farm connected to the Scottish Museum of Rural Life, which is situated in our town. The farm is run the way it was in the fifties, and is very interesting. It was left to the National Trust by the Reids, who as a family had farmed there for many years, through Covenanting times, but the last of them had no children and wanted to leave it to the nation.

From there we walked to the Heritage Loch, where in Gracies they had tables all set for our soup and sandwich lunch, which was really good; we had a choice of four kinds of soup with crusty bread, then big servers of sandwiches of all kinds, different breads and a variety of fillings. All served by the staff who are as daft as us. Then we had tea and coffee, a few speeches, and presented our two organisers, Marion and Margaret with gift cards, in appreciation of all the work they do to give us a fab day out once a month.

I took about a hundred photos and couldn't decide what to blip, so I asked the HG to decide, and naturally he picked this one of the shifting of the dung at the farm!!!!