A day in Tain

So...today is the blip day, not yesterday. 5.5k blips. An unfeasible number almost, even to me, and I've done every single one of them! Long may blipping continue!

Anyway, I had a bit of a slow start to the day, as we had been out and about late last night. And possibly had one or two too many sherries.... Well, it was all in a good cause.....

The man arrived who was due to build our shed base. He got it done, but has to come back tomorrow to take the wooden frame away. We just need to get the shed now and we'll be all set to switch a few things around in the garden, including moving the ugly plastic box round the front where it will be less visible. It's a small shed, but then it's also a very small garden.

In the afternoon, I went down to the Links for a walk, inspecting the big tree that has come down, and feeling the cobwebs being blown away that had gathered in my head. It was surprisingly sunny, with a warm blustery westerly wind. The bridge over the Tain River is closed, so I walked through to the Golf club and over golf course to the Kirksheaf Road and then back that way past Kirksheaf Farm, where the outbuildings that we have photographed quite a few times have been stripped back to their 'bare bones' and a new extension is replacing a previous one on the farmhouse building itself. I had a sneaky look at the Highland Council website when I got back.

And now I've more or less finished the very slight historical crime novel I've been reading to amuse myself over the last couple of days, and will finish it when I go to bed in a few minutes.

I added a collage of some Tain flowers in the extra - both inside (sweet peas) and outside (including the astilbe that Ridgeback13 gave me last year, which has now come back nicely.