Blue Monday

05/02/2005

MESSAGE FROM THE OLD HOUSE. A CANCELLATION MEANS THAT THE OLD HOUSE IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR WEEKS COMMENCING 30TH JULY AND 6TH AUGUST.

18 degrees, mainly dry even a glimpse of sunshine, a brisk southerly wind keeps everything fresh and spring like. On our early morning arduous training route march, dearest Dottie and I find lots of wild flowers, violets, anenomies and banks of sheltered wild primroses. The flytrap plants are very green, ready for their spring feasts. We also spend a minute or two picking up rubbish left behind by one of the glen’s bank holiday campers. God such crass mindlessness always drives me mad, why oh why do people come to enjoy the freedom of the countryside and abuse it with bottles and cans. I really do try not to get paranoid about it, but what makes these people tick, are they just pig ignorant? Despite it being a bank holiday Monday, we seem to be as busy as ever, with constant phone calls interrupting my efforts to catch up with piles of paperwork, and of course, the people that I want to contact about some of the papers are firmly on holiday, so lots of queries to roll over until tomorrow. If I can just get over the next ridge of paper perhaps I can get out into the garden and start some of the work I meant to start in the winter. Now grass needs subdued and weeds attacked as well, maybe in a day or two! I find a relaxing Ardbeg and watch some TV with Dottie. Tomorrow is another day! Yours Aye, Archie, The Baron Trollaigh.