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Elle! I am astounded!
You are calling some of our beautiful islands "smallish piles of rocks"?
Best be very careful whenst next you venture North!
You will be glad to get your new car!
Glue is the future, nuts and bolts are dinosaurs!
Dull up here.
Just a suggestion, but today is Ladies Day at Royal Ascot, and I think you and the " ladies who lunch" should get tricked out in support of the sisterhood at Ascot?
I am heading out now, and have Ascot and the US Open to watch later today.

Rusty.....William Buick looks to have some good mounts today....what do you think?

Yes, he does, Albie.
Tricky to spot a winner today. Big fields!
Should be excellent racing!

Hey, Rusty!
Well, we've finally got our new car! Very pleased with it !(especially as all the windows open and shut, as does the boot!)
No, seriously... it seems a really good buy. Looking forward to going for a long drive !
What sort of a day have you had? How did the racing at Ascot go? did any of your horses win?
And the Golf.....?
Starving...must go and find something for dinner...!

Good morning, Elle!
Glad you like your new motor!
My day was grand. No bets on horses.
Golf?
Well, the course is unattractive and looks very difficult to play. But, as Jack Nicklaus (I think) said, "no one ever said golf was meant to be fair).
Miss L Plate and me are going for a bacon roll later!
And what exactly, Miss, is this about "smallish piles of rocks"?
They could well be crannogs, man made islands.
And there are quite a few burial isles.
Iona being the best known. 48 Scottish kings are buried on Iona, and several Norwegian and Irish kings.
So, a bit of respect, please, for our "smallish piles of rocks"!

Morning, Rusty!
Do I need to "throw my hat in the door first"?.......I do apologise for referring to your small uninhabited island as 'smallish piles of rocks'! I have of course heard of Iona!
Am I forgiven?
Not a very nice day here...dull, with grey clouds hovering ( definitely 'hovering' not hoovering!!) and much cooler as yet.
Where are you and Miss L-Plate going for your bacon rolls? To the Horn Café? or to the one in the woods?
Enjoy!

All forgiven!
That is my rant over for today!
Not so bonnie here either, clouds!
I am not sure where the young one and me are going.
She shall decide. I am merely the driver.
My granddaughters rule me with a rod of candy floss!
At least it is not raining.
PS. in ancient times, crannogs were built for defence.
Communities lived on them.
An attacking force would have difficulty reaching them.

Hi, Pigale
continuing on here....
The car is excellent , thank you! We didn't arrive home after picking it up until about 6.30 , so a long afternoon!There was so much to go through at the showroom, paperwork etc., then instructions on how to use all the gizmos and gadgets on the car- there are a lot of safety features built into it. Good really of course but a lot to get your head round.
Did you manage to get your cherries picked before there is a weather change?

Hi again Elle,

Yes and no - picked some up myself but friends could not make it that day, so it will wait until Sunday afternoon or Monday - but weather holding so far, so it's OK - we just had a little drizzle yesterday, but nice and sunny today.

My friends are both a bit younger than I and are therefore still at work - both in a supermarket, hence irreguoar hours.

I have some very dear friends of mine arriving from Luxembourg this evening. They are British but used to work at European Parliament, and now remain there because grand-children etc. They also own a little house almost opposite mine, so we see each other quite often, which is very nice - we have been friends since 1974!

Glad you like your car; it sounds as though you have a new toy, (albeit a useful one), which you need to learn how to use. Hope you will enjoy many a long drive in it, and also hope Mr Dog likes it as well!

Just a quick reply , Pigale, as we are going out very shortly.
Hope your weather holds for your cherry-picking over the weekend; we are being threatened with thunderstorms for tomorrow!
I don't drive, so all my journeys in the new car will be as a passenger( or maybe a back -seat driver?)!
The dog is a "Miss" - she's six years old, thinks she's coming up two and is very feisty!
Must go now.....