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and we visited Luss on the way up - that is another attractive place on Loch Lomond that is worth a visit. Our holiday last year was to Coll and Tiree by way of The Falls of Lora - which when we were there weren't quite as spectacular as they appeared on Paul Merton's (?) Tours of Scotland programme - in fact they were so low they were virtually non-existent! If anyone wants a good quiet break on two completely different islands I can definitely recommend Coll and Tiree and The Coll Hotel is excellent. I wonder how they have got on this season though as the island made its money during the holiday period.
Wednesday, 17th June
From Janet at 19.17
What a great solution you have found - I remember very well a very pleasant meal we had in Enfield with Peter and yourself whilst we were clearing Mum's house - I think the gardener hadn't turned up and so the car was full of various bits of gardening equipment and I was squashed in around it.
Well I had a great excitement yesterday - I paid my first trip to a supermarket in 3 months! The cat had run out of her food (petted lump only eats one expensive type!) and my next delivery isn't due till Sunday. I have to say I felt quite nervous just doing something I always did once a week in former times! I didn't have to wait too long - the older persons slot is far too early for me in any case! There did seem to be an awful of reduced items on the shelves and of course some just happened to hop into my trolley. I thought I might have to go around in a marked out path but no I was able to wander around social distancing of course but really with so few people in the store it was quite easily managed!
I was meant to be sitting in someone's garden today but we had a thunder storm instead. We had another one yesterday at around the same time. It has felt muggy so hopefully the air will have cleared.
I don't know when the clubs etc that we used to go to will open up again as they met in churches/club bars and private houses (book group of 12 women and 1 man so we exceeded the 6 permitted). The church will be open for private prayer a couple of days next week and I am stewarding on one day but with social distancing measured out there is no way a service could take place with the 2m rule. I was told there was room for around 10 maximum which is about a quarter of the usual congregation for a normal Sunday service.
I try to speak to a human being each day, either in the local shop or a friend on the phone if I don't go out. I suppose we would have coped in the 50s and 60s but there was not the same amount of overseas travel in those days so perhaps the population of Wuhan's animal market would have kept the virus to themselves!
Anyway time for my supper and Brian Cox on The Planets
Tuesday, 23rd June
From Ruth at 12.42
Here’s another theme to spark memories of life at QEGGS. How did we all make the journey to and from school? We all came from so many different places near and far. Personally I lived five minutes away at 52 Meadway, by the post box at the bottom of the hill on top of which was the school. Of course I was always late and out of breath when I got into there after a mad race and always in a rush.
I well remember the other girls with whom I strolled home at the end of the school day: Liz Jackson, now in Australia who lived in Meadway Close, so reached home before me. Jane .....
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