Are you up Thurso way, Roxy? I lived there for a few years in the early 80’s. Happy days!
I’ve just been pottering this week. The boiler is all installed, commissioned and working away, hurrah! Just got to pay for it now. :roll:
I did a bit of tidying outside, cleaned up the mess the bird food had made and swept the pavement to get rid of the grit that had been put down for the snow. I found some snowdrops and crocus hidden amongst other plants.
Yes Sue, but along the coast a wee bit. Spend a lot of time at Dunnet on the beach with the dog, and across the way in the forest. 
Fabulous! We used to go to Dunnet beach quite often. I have photos of a very pregnant me there. 
My younger son was born in Dunbar Hospital, back when it used to have a small maternity unit.
Dh and I took a trip up there two or three years ago and it’s certainly changed a bit - the A9 is so quick now, with the bridges and so on. It seemed a bit of a shame that places like Dunnet Head have been ‘sanitised’ with car parks and fencing and so on. We just used to hang onto the back of our boys’ jackets stop them falling over the edge! :shock: You used to be able to go into the lighthouse back then, so it was sad to see it all closed off.
We were amazed at the supermarkets, too. We had a choice of the Coop opposite the town hall in Thurso or, I think, Templetons, in the middle of the high street. We used to go to Inverness once a month for extras, especially after M&S opened up there.
We stayed at the Pentland Hotel. The tartan carpets have gone but otherwise little has changed there.
Sue and Roxy, some of our best holidays were spent touring all over the highlands, gorgeous scenery , we went up north for a few years, right to john o’ groats ,cape wrath, which was beautiful to see I’m just too old now to venture that far, I only wish I could…
I don’t know how Nicola could appear at that hearing next week. Salmond (and I’m absolutely not a fan!!) was so calm and serious and had all the facts and figures at his fingertips for 6 hours. It’s all such a nasty mess I can’t imagine what will happen. Will Nicola offer apologies and cry a bit? She’s done that before re the drugs problem? Will she resign? Goodness knows. I just wish none of it had happened.
Meanwhile, life goes on. Housework, walk and TV here as usual.
Morning everyone! Jane - I don’t think Nicola will resign at all. Look at how many of the English ministers have broken ministerial code and are still there. She will deny any wrong doing, blame Salmond, and carry on. I’m not a fan of hers, but I do think she has carried the Covid situation well.
Anyway, not much going on with me today…weather a bit iffy. Might wander out for a bit - I need to get some dog food anyway, so that’s a bit of a walk. Have a lovely day 
Good morning everybody. Been raining here tis morning nothing unusual in that. Will be going out later for bread and milk and a few other things.
Morning 
Blimey it’s turned cold again, I had to go back for my thicker fleece before me n the dog went to the forest. Not much on today unless himself needs me for anything.
Sue, The Co-op is still there in the centre but no Templetons. A small Tesco at the Groats junction as you come into Town on the A9, and a Lidils on the far side, at Burnside overlooking the caravan park, and a wee Co-op over at Thurso East on Mt Pleasant Rd.
The Castle is a real mess now it’s been closed off but stones are falling off the tower onto the walk below, such a shame it’s been left to rot. I used to love going along there and sitting on the wee wall at the old dock tower to watch the surfers on the reef waves. Seldom do it now, I was lucky enough to go up in to the castle a few years back just before it was closed off and I got some great photos.
Health n Safety are probably the ones responsible for all the fencing off at Dunnet Lighhouse and the cliffs ect.
Paula, The North Coast Road is fantastic, or at least it used to be untill that blasted Route 500 opened now you take your life in your hands driving along there in the summer. I go a Beach there called Strathy Cove, wonderful wee hidden Gem, lots of caves, wild waves, and rocks, you can’t see it from the road so have to know it’s there.
Sue, Does this bring back any memories? Need to put it to full screen to watch.
Pixie I think Nicola will apologise next week and turn on the waterworks and get off with it. Her husband, civil servants and crown office not necessarily! It’s an unholy mess and very worrying that this sort of thing is going on.
I do agree, Jane about the unholy mess of things right now, but not too sure Nicola would cry…to me anyway, there’s something quite hard nosed about her. I could be wrong of course - I think you or someone else, mentioned that she had done it before, so…we shall see how things pan out over the next week or so. 
Interesting times indeed Pixie!
Good Afternoon Lassies,it’s been a dreich grey one here but the sun has popped out to cheer Us up 
I recall Thatcher bubbling when She was ousted,as did T May…but I fervently hope Sturgeon won’t be put in the same position…She lives in the same wee Town as Me so I’ll continue to support Our Local Hero,and curse Her backstabbing ex Friend who could not show any evidence of
‘conspiracy’ on the Salmond shit show…it was a favourite word of Trumps if I recall, :-p…Infamy,infamy,They’ve all gorrit
infamy 
Any views on Our new Labour Leader?..Can’t say I know much about Him,but He can’t be any worse than the last One
surely :shock:
I saw that on the news, May. An interesting choice, I must say. Like you, I don’t know much about him but I think he will shake a few things up. I did like that Leonard fellow though…his lockdown hair made me chuckle 
Heh heh,He didn’t make Me chuckle atall as I thought He was
the epitomy of a dour Scotsman…except He wasn’t Scottish 
Oooh I had to go and do my nosy on that - I just assumed he was! A Yorkshire man, eh? Well, that’s interesting. Goes to show what I (don’t ) know about politics!
May just wait till the contents of that memory stick are revealed! Explosive stuff unless Scottish govt try to suppress that too. Their behaviour over this sickens me. What are they trying so hard to hide and why? I could never vote for them again. Hate what they’re doing to the credibility of Scotland.
Aye,Politics is a dirty business but Scotland hasn’t seen such dirty Politics since this.
Act of Union between England & Scotland 1707,
But,it’ll all come out in the wash as They say…who will be the next FM?
Who will You vote for in the future…Ross?..Sarwar?..Can You see the tories ruling Scotland?..Time will tell,but I hope I’ll have shuffled off this mortal coil before that ever happens.
I see Ian Blackford is backing wee Nicola.
She is quick to act when it comes to others…Joanna Cherry for example. If that fits her agenda, of course…I just don’t know what to think, really
I wouldn’t expect Him to do otherwise Rox…He’s not My
favourite Person as You know…but at least He’s loyal 
