Blustery day

Thursday, 31st January

Really stormy this morning with snow and sleet battering on the windows, yet loads of birds again. Sat in the conservatory to read the paper and the noise made me think it was going to blow away! ( The conservatory I mean, not the paper.) It’s not a conservatory really anyway, too small, but John and I sat there a lot as it’s lovely to look out at the garden no matter what the weather. A day ror sorting out all last year’s photos, printing the ones I want and putting them into the albums I got for Christmas. I have them all in my IPhotos, but I still like to have them lying about to look at. I’d never used John’s digital camera before, but I took quite a few last year. I’m going to make up an album just of him. In lots of the photos he has a bairn in his arms. Oh, dear it gets a bit too much sometimes looking at them and typing this.

Dick took me to my bank in Tranent then to Port Seton to have my eyebrows tidied up. Thought I’d better smarten myself up for Catherine’s 50th birthday party on Saturday. Margo phoned as usual when she got home. She told me that the school for handicapped children which is near hers had a fire alarm and all the pupils had to be brought in to their assembly hall. She said most of the wee souls were soaking, so some of the staff and older pupils dried them off and tried to warm them up . Kay phoned too and she was saying that Robert revels in this kind of weather, splashing about etc. Douglas was on a trip to Edinburgh castle as he’s doing Mary, Queen of Scots at school. Must look out some of the information and pictures I have and legends about her life. Think there’s a tape somewhere of the girls or me singing the ballad, “the Queen’s Marys.”

Finished reading “ Rose of Sebastopol”. Enjoyed it, as the background was the Crimean War. Like all wars. All about power, possessions and politicians. We never learn from history. Later on more history, as programme on BBC4 about Neville Chamberlain trying to negotiate with Hitler, the presenter saying that he was the first person to introduce “ Summitry”. There was a lot more to Chamberlain than I used to think. Sad man though.