The Blog from Bressay

It’s been lovely this week lots and lots of sunshine (although still had a bit of a wind with it some days).

At the weekend I got a letter from the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary informing me I’d be staying a business week with them (Mon - we think Fri).  I really want to get things sorted out but can’t until I see my Doc next week and see when I’m going to get discharged.  Mam and Dad will be going with me but won’t be staying as they are both Polling Booth Clerks for the European Elections.  Martin is coming back up with me whenever I get discharged. 

Didn’t see Gran on Tuesday again.  Dad did for a few mins.  She’d had a lie in and by the time they had finished with other webcamers it was time for Grans dinner.  Went out to enjoy sunshine on Tuesday at The Peerie Shop Cafe and had a lovely couple of cups of Peppermint and Liquorice Tea.  If your into your herbal tea I’d highly recommend it.  It was lovely sitting outside in the sun and chatting to folk.

Wednesday I had a day off as I’d been out Monday and Tuesday and have a busy couple of days coming up so I needed the rest and had a mainly bed day.  I was supposed to be going to Community Council but I knew if I did there would be trouble after.  The Clerk is next door neighbour so I’m going to see if I can get the minutes from him to peruse.

Today I’ve been practising tune for Sisters wedding coming along nicely and thinking of seeing if she wants to me to play Ode to Joy as her and her man walk back down the beach together.  Also been doing a bit of chucking out and cleaning.  I had to rescue escapee sock from hoover but all ok in end.  I’ve been trying to clean our white, plastic furniture and have found out the reason it’s not cleaning up.  It’s been outside for far too many winters so the newer ones are coming up good but other not good I’m afraid will try and persuade Mam and Dad to put it all in the Shed this winter (PS if anyone wants any boxes we have loads looking for a good home).  Woody has not had the best of days between strimming, fiddling and hoovering.  He’s hoping for a far quieter night.

The Chinese is coming across tomorrow night again.  Trying to persuade Mam & Dad that it would be a nice idea and have a night off cooking.  Still working on it though.  I’m also off to the CAB in the afternoon to sort the stuff for my submission to Tribunal out, still not heard when the date will be.  If I had to put a bet on it will come up when I’m in Aberdeen!

Saturday we’ve got folk coming over and hopefully the phone that my brother ordered from eBay will have turned up.  Sunday it’s the Camera Club AGM.

I’m hoping to get more washing out very soon as I’ve managed to get one load on but I’ve been thwarted by folk getting to machine first and other folk strimming the grass.  Tomorrow I shall get to machine first and there will be no strimming.

At long last after requests, nay demands! For Teacosy pics here they are.  Unfortunately not had the best of weather for Teacosy so had to stay indoors but Teacosy has been busy making friends and looking around:

Meeting the locals

Looking out to back

 Making friends with Woody.

Now you are probably wondering about Woody’s water well it seems like Woody (not sure about the rest of feline kingdom maybe someone could confirm) prefers drinking out of most things apart from his own bowl.  He does drink out of it but if there is another recepticle that has water in it then bowl gets ignored.  After the gales of last weeks Mams double flowered Tulips were battered so she took then in and put them in water and in the tray she picked they did look lovely:

We were sorting out old papers and things looked round and saw this:

It seems to be his favourite hobby but probably not for much longer as they are starting to get past their best.  Wonder if it will be back to down the loo after this?

Just when you think that Spring has arrived and your planning everything in the garden, up comes the weather forecast to inform you that it Storm Force 10 tonight and 7-9 tomorrow.  When it’s windy there is nothing better than being tucked up in bed listening to it howl outside after being battered by Woody running and jumping all over you as he’s taken a maddy because of the wind.  It makes me appreciate being at home more.  I love all sorts of weather (maybe not too sunny and hot though) and missed it when I was South as I didn’t feel that there was the range that there is at home.

Not spoken to Gran this week.  Technical problems down in Edinburgh.  The PC wasn’t working so they just had the laptop and too many people to get around.  We heard that she was up and about so happy about that.  It’s fingers crossed here that all will be ok for next week.

Martin is thinking to come up in June so I’m looking forward to that.  Not sure when but if he comes up at end of June he’ll be here for Dad’s birthday and if he comes up at begining of June he’ll be here for MLS’s birthday.  Mind you we were discussing get out nails done again.  Not sure if he’s be up for getting his done as well.

I’m resting good style this week not helped by slight tummy bug the house came down with at beginning of week.  Very glad we had two toilets that’s all I’m saying!  MLS came to collect Teacosy and it was a quick switch as she’s got the cold.  I didn’t want to give her my germs and she didn’t want to give me her germs.  It was quite funny to see us as she said it’s the least we’ve ever spoken to each other.

Speaking of bugs, germs etc.  We got the Swine HypeFlu leaflet  through today.  Looking at the symptoms I think that I have had Swine Flu for quite a bit of my life lol.  I do worry about the male half of the population though.  How many of them carry tissues about?  Thinking about it, it’s usually the women that do in their handbags and the man usually nicks them when the need arises or they resort to sleeves lol.

We had a shock on Bressay last week the Headmaster of the Primary School died.  There is a Memorial Service on Friday and the bairns have been getting the church ready with photos and other things.  I can imagine that it will look beautiful when finished.

I don’t drink that often and don’t see my brother on his own that often either so when the two collided last night it was a fine opportunity.  Enjoyed our night and even had a bit of the deep and meaningfuls. I’ve decided I must learn to do this:

a) not at stupid o clock in the morning (drunk or sober)

b) not drunk

Brother made the ferry for his work this morning.  I was in feeling like a wet rag territory this not being familiar to me for a while.  So I’ve had a quiet day and also catching up on emails as been fairly busy this week.

The Community Council was good and my friend and I are planning to go to the next one.  At the moment the water board are of the impression it’s going to be too expensive to build a new water treatment on the island and so are thinking of piping water across from the mainland.  Most of the island are not happy about this as the water quality, we feel in the town is not that great plus I feel it would mean extra chemicals having to be put in to the water in order for it to be “fresh” when it gets poured out our taps. Also it means that if the pipe taking the water across gets damaged we have to wait until a team comes up from South to fix it.  They had planned to take tankers over with water but the very time a pipe will get damaged is when there is high winds and if there is high winds no ferry ergo no water and if (touching wood very tightly) a fire were to happen at that time the Firefighters would have to rig up to the sea water to hose it down.  They guys representing Scottish Water said that they would do a Community Consultation and take the island views on board but ultimately it would play no part in their decision making.

Well rant over about that.

Next weekend I shall probably suffering from a hangover too but as it’s going to be a long night I think I might cut back on the alcohol a bit and take some lovely soft drinks with me as looks like I’m going to be in charge of the camcorder.

My herbs that I planted a couple of weeks ago are growing.  Coriander first, Parsely second, Chives third and so far a no show from the Basil but hopefully we will see something from the Basil soon.