Commercial Bank / Service Point Doorway

Since I quite often lack anything particularly exciting to blip when working in Tain, especially during the winter, I have decided to inaugurate a new series #doorwaysoftain. I've started with the doorway to what was the Commercial Bank on the High Street and is now the Highland Council service point. It has a Canmore page. I hope to be able to find plenty of other historic doorways to blip. Or just ones that are attractive.

I popped out to meet JU for a coffee to talk about Dr Elizabeth Ness MacBean Ross, on whom he is undoubtedly the world authority (although not the author of the wikipedia entry, it should be said, which contains some inaccuracies). None of the various entries about Dr Elizabeth Ross refer to the fact that while the family returned to Tain to live after Elizabeth's father had died, they had an earlier stay in the town when David MacBean Ross was working for the Commercial Bank, and living in a flat opposite the bank, also on the High Street. This is, however, discussed in a lengthy (paper) pamphlet that JU has written about Elizabeth, which I have read earlier this year, and which is definitely deserving of a wider audience. That was what we were talking about over coffee in Piper's.

Mr A was unfortunately pretty indisposed all day with The Cold. But the sleep he got seemed to do him good as he managed to get up late afternoon, and eat the dinner I made (with some guidance!). He seems to be slowly on the mend, but it's a bit of a nasty cold. Although over most of it, I'm still coughing occasionally. At least it should be gone by the time Christmas comes round.

Today was quite a nice day, weatherwise, but unfortunately I spent almost all of it at my laptop apart from popping out to meet JU. Over the weekend, however, the weather looks wild, so we will probably be hunkering down and I won't get the swims I was hoping to get. Thank goodness for the spinning bike.