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Many thanks Jazz.

Too late, Elle!
My son overheard something on the wireless about it and told me. We know the area very well. Gairloch is in Wester Ross, near Loch Ewe where the Russian convoys set out for Archangel etc during the war. The Liberator was coming back from Europe when it clipped the mountain, Slioch, and it looks like it tried to make it to Gairloch and the sea to attempt a landing.
Unfortunately it went down at the Fairy Lochs.
The Scottish mountains have many aircraft wrecks on them.
Your poor husband getting sent miles to get you coffee!
Tut,tut!

Cloudy and bright, up here!
Elle, this is an update on the Liberator crash.
It appears there was a piece on our News about an exhibition at Gairloch museum about the downed Liberator. It crashed just over 70 years ago.http://coastkid.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/roadtrip-2011-usaaf-b24-liberator.html

Morning, Rusty!
That was well-timed- I've just sat down at the computer!
Sunny and warm here! Lovely out in the early morning.
Thanks for the additional info on the Liberator crash.
How very sad to crash especially when the war was over and they were on their way home, and all their relatives expecting them..... a tragedy.
Will you be able to go to the exhibition - is it near enough to you?
I know of Wester Ross! you've mentioned it before - didn't you take the boys there when they were growing up .....camping , climbing, fishing.....?

Just saw a tiny bit of blue sky, Elle.
Hope that is not the Scottish summer!
Yes, it is very poignant reading about the Liberator crash. The war is over, and then tragedy.
No, Wester Ross is around 200 miles from me.
It is an acquired taste, not for everybody.
Very wild, mountains, moor, rivers and burns.
It was Paradise to my boys and me, but you have to amuse yourselves up there. There is nothing laid on.
No fun parks or anything. Still lots of single track roads.
I remember caravanning and we had sea trout for breakfast every morning. Straight from the river and into the frying pan in just a few minutes. In those days there was no TV signal. The mountains got in the way!
Happy days!

Morning Rusty,

Just had a look at the link you sent to Elle regarding the Liberator crash. Am afraid I had never heard the name until you mentionred it, but looking at the photographs is as impressive as it is sad, and even more so when you see the average age of the victims! Just on their way back home, after surviving hell - sickening!

On a lighter note, very sunny here, light breeze, blue sky and all that, with reasonable for this time of day - only around 20C at present, due to increase somewhat this afternoon (just to make you jealous!)

Out of curiosity, what's the average summer temperature in your neck of the wood? You are so far north!

Good morning, Pigale.
Nice to hear from you!
Yes, What happened was terrible. Fine young men, probably thinking about their lives after the war. Then disaster!
The site at the Fairy Lochs, has been declared a war grave.

Summer temperature is variable.
I would say 26C would be a very warm day for us.
But the average would be around 18C, I think.
So, Pigale, what are you up to, today?

Well Rusty, I think i'll take advantage of the reasonable heat to rake some weeds that were cut last week, before the storm.

Then I probably pick a big basketful of cherries - they all ripen at the same time this year, even though one tree usually ripens after the others. I will call some friends so that they can come with their kids (teenagers) to pick some up for themselves, before wood pigeons and other birds eat them all!

Most kids don't work on Wednesdays in France, at least not in the afternoon, and the young ones have the whole day off. In my days, we had Thusdays off, but we had school on Saturday mornings, so I think it is better now for parents and children alike!

Sounds like a good plan, Pigale! Nice to have your friends over.
I love cherries- a pity you can't pass some over the line!
It must be difficult though for working mums with children having a day off school midweek? Surely it means organising child care? Better the way we do here in the UK as most parents - or at least one - are 'free' at the weekends to look after their children.

Elle, get on a plane, then take a train and then a bus, and come and pick them up for yourself! As many as you want !
If you can climb up trees, there are plenty right at the top and those are usually left for the birds.

Working mums have indeed to rely on someone to look after their children on Wednesdays, either all day or just the afternoon, depending on which class the kids are; it can be a Granny if at all possible, which is ideal of course - but there is no school on Saturdays either. The hours are just longer on other days, to make up for the difference, and there is always homework to be done as well - though not quite as much as in my days!

There I go, showing my age again, but it really seems to me that youngsters have less work to do now, and consequently know less (this links up with the grammar not being so well taught nowadays - but lets not go back down that lane!)