Swan out in the firth

It's been a fairly uneventful and unremarkable day. Neither of us slept well, so there was no leaping out of bed with enthusiasm this morning, but we did manage to get out into the garden to do a bit more clearing. Mr A has started trying to get rid of one of the stumps with an adze. It's a long job. I was clearing away holly and other stuff on the upper level, as seen in the top right hand corner of yesterday's blip. I got rather filthy and I was also pretty convinced that some of the small black bits stuck to my arms after all that were tiny ticks, so I took a second shower just to be on the safe side. I brought the specialist tick tweezers home with us.

We had some left overs for lunch, and I walked down to the shore to get a blip, and also to pick up a few bits and pieces that needed to stay in Tain. After chilling out for a while, we went back to the supermarket for bits and pieces to bring back to Edinburgh and to fill up with petrol.

It was an uneventful trip home. The traffic which had been causing tailbacks at the contraflow north of the Inveralmond roundabout had dissipated by the time we got there, so the only real issue was the surface water and heavy rain as we came through southern Fife and over the bridge towards Edinburgh. By the time we got back home, the rain was over.

I got back to discover a further newsletter from the developers of our building who are spending as much money righting the original wrongs as they spent developing the building in the first place. It seems that when the works are on, we will lose our parking space. I assume there will be compensation for that. As far as I know, there are no unassigned car parking spaces in the building, so I'm not clear where we are going to park. Hoping to spend as much of the time in question in Tain as possible....but timescales have not yet been made public.

A late night (by our standards) as we are waiting up for L to arrive. He has been on Islay for the weekend, and is spending a couple of days with us before going back to London. But transports have been delayed.