Findlay's Cottage

Into the Toon to meet Davie.  A pre-project meeting to hopefully introduce an array of solar panels at the Hoy Kirk.  Or, even, to reintroduce a turbine.  A new heating scheme is also being discussed.  I then met Olivia and Kitty in quick succession. Post meeting I went to the Ayre Mills to get fuel.  In trying to get my fuel paid for, my card refused all methodologies known to mankind to get it to respond.  I realised there was a queue behind me, so I asked the young man to serve other folk, as I stood aside and contemplated busking.  One young woman in the queue smiled at me.  The last time this happened was a damp March in 1983; Mealmarket Street, Aberdeen.  I realised it was Sarah who stays on Hoy and provides support for the Kirk Heritage project.  I jokingly told her she could pay for my fuel – and she did!!  I found I had fifty four pounds in loose change on me which I forced on her.  I don’t think she had ever seen cash before.  I ascertained she would be catching the 2.45 p.m. ferry across home.  On arrival at Creel HQ the neighbouring croft was underneath a veritable deluge.  After I had paddled back into HQ , I announced all of the above to the Current Mrs Creel (not that she was listening as she immediately took off in the car to go to badminton).  The last thing I heard was that Kathleen and CMC’s sister are invited for tea, and I have to make it.  I know what’s good for me.  I dashed ootside and put up a bird feeder.  I didn’t even need a recipe.  It’s full on as I’ve also received a letter from the House of Commons.  Once more Desmond has been pondering the Boundary of Modern Sensibility.  But, I think, you’re all safe as his last reported location was Foula. 
 
Lulu Macduff is 78.