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Hello,
Good to hear you have a decent router, Pigale.
Mine's is old but works OK.
Just read in my evening paper that there have been snow flurries on the outskirts of the city this morning.
I would get the daffs planted quickly, Elle.
Miss Orlando graduates two weeks today.
I asked her about what to wear, and she does not care.
"Anything!"
You have not heard of a Forfar bridie? Jings!
Forfar is our county town and a bridie is, roughly, a meat and onion dish inside pastry. Maybe a relative of a Cornish pasty?
One of my Norn Iron friends is Bridie, and also a Donegal cousin. Short for Bridget/Brigid. See your Chambers.
They have bridie= meat and onion turnover.
Anne Bradford has it under "pasty".
They are very tasty!

Hi, Rusty!
Snow flurries? Goodness gracious! Winter is upon us with a vengeance! We shall plant the bulbs over the weekend, anyway, never fear!

I think you should perhaps take that "Anything" from Miss Orlando with "a pinch" or maybe "a barrel full" of salt?! You should maybe check with your daughter- in -law?
Usually, the Graduation guests do dress reasonably formally - certainly a man would wear a (posh?) suit and smart shirt and sober tie!
I am sure though in Scotland, you could wear a kilt if you so wished (my cousin always wore his for formal occasions)
Remember there will be photographs taken for "posterity" - think of your street cred, as the girls would say!

Did I ever tell you what happened to us? - fortunately it was
AFTER our daughter's Graduation and not before ........
We'd gone up to Manchester in jeans and polo shirts - just casual
wear.
My husband's suit and shirt, and my "dressy" outfit were in the roof box.
My husband forgot to lock it.......... first thing we knew was another driver on the motorway beeping us....... roof box was wide open... "dressy " clothes were long gone.... goodness knows where....could have landed in a field!!!!
It was a good job we were on our way back from the Graduation and NOT on our way there!
We certainly would not have been allowed entrance dressed as we were, in our casual gear!!!!

I think I would like a ''bridie''!

Elle, bridies are very tasty, but must come from Forfar!
And the onion ones are best, I think.
The graduation? I am Miss La Bamba's escort!
She is in charge of me! It shall be a hoot!
I have promised not to speak to strangers etc
Think street cred!
My granddaughters all dress very simply, but well.
So, I shall try to do the same.
You can get caught out, though.
I remember a few years ago I went to a talk at Dundee Uni given by Prof Tom Devine on Immigration to Scotland.
It was put on by the Royal Society.
I was the only man without a tie!
Just a leather jacket and cords and an open neck shirt.
Nobody said anything, though! And Prof Tom was excellent!
The snow flurry was a minor affair, I think, but the gritter lorries are going about.

Forfar seem slated always to lose to East Fife, though (4-5)!

I am not so sure that score has ever happened, though!
I have a soft spot for Forfar!

.....but Forfar 5, East Fife 4 has occurred - see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Martin

Ah, yes!
Those were the days.
Plenty goals in a game!

Rusty, I am sure that you ALL will look very well-dressed for Miss Orlando's Graduation!
And will have some great photos by which to remember the occasion!
(I am still upset at losing my favourite trouser suit to possibly a scarecrow though! I always check that the roof box is securely locked now!)
I am glad to report that my dog is doing very well! Her wound seems to have healed nicely; there is still a little inflammation but the anti-inflammatory medication should deal with that.
I removed her "lampshade" yesterday - she was very pleased!
She goes back to the vet next Tuesday for a (final?) check up.
Any plans for the weekend?

Elle, I shall look my best, whatever that is!
That is smashing news about doggie!
I have not thought about the weekend.
Just listening to the dreadful news from Paris.
What a world we live in!

Hi, Rusty!
I'd gone to have a bath - just came down, read your message and have since been reading on Google about the terror attacks.
Unusually, we haven't had the News on tonight- both of us were reading, without noticing the time.
It's saying that there were at least six co-ordinated terror attacks....over 60 people killed, 100 hostages taken......and that the terrorists were shouting "This is for Syria..."
No doubt since I read that, the statistics have escalated......
What a horrendous thing to happen.... you are right, what a terrible world we live in ...... what an inheritance we shall be leaving for our grandchildren.....