Walk and bee house!

 I walked into Dunkeld this morning, just to get a bit of exercise. I took photos of from both sides of the bridge, it was the shy I was attracted to on the first one, they both look chilly!

I walked back along the river path, still not a lot of colour on the trees.

Quite a lot of these diseased leaves on the ground, make great patterns!

This afternoon I tried to fill gaps in the bee house, had to cut some very short ones which probably won’t be ant use to the bees anyway, it is now as good as it is going to get!

Has to cure for a while , I do hope it attracts a bee or two.

I am off to my first evening meeting with the garden and growing club this evening. There is going to be a talk on cacti.

Some colour, but not a lot!

 Not a lot to talk about tonight, I have been less than with it. Yesterday evening when I was at the bingo evening my head began to really itch and I couldn’t ignore it completely. By the time I wa indoors it wa difficult not to scratch ll the time. It was worse during the night, itched more when my head was on the pillow! At one point I sat up for an hour doing a crossword. I had used a hir product yesterday that I haven’t used for a while and wondered if I had reacted to it. I had a shower and washed my hair thoroughly , I was ssirprised the water wsnt red as I had scratched my head so much! The head ha still itches ll day nd I now realise that I have numerous bites on my head, ll of which are now oozing as I have scratched the heads off. A couple of weeks ago I had four bites on my head and I think both times it has been when I have worked at St Ninians, which doesn’t bode well as I have said I will develop an area. I will wear a cap next week and spry it with insect repellant! Have taken a antihistamine so hope I will be bled to sleep tonight. That a lot of waffle when I sid I hadn’t got much to say!

This morning I sanded down th canes before getting the first lot stuck in the bucket. The instructions sid to gather them all in a rubber band! That proved almost impossible, they kept slipping out and it was quite frustrating!

I got them into the h ker nd then hd to leave the sealant to sure. Now I have to get others into the gaps, they will need cutting down a bit. This project is proving to be quite a challenge.

Another picture from my chair this morning,

Tina still isn’t properly recovered but we did go shopping this afternoon and I took a few photos when we were out, the trees are reluctant to change colour it seems.

Apart from tidying up some of the cane chaos Nd getting dinner I haven’t done a lot. Will hopefully sleep better and feel a bit more energetic tomorrow,

Group day and out this evening

 When I was walking home after the film last night there was a light on in the church. Got better pics of the windows that I often get from inside!

The film was good, quite hard to watch at some points but also funny in others. But very informative and a pretty marvellous true story.

This morning I walked into Dunkeld and got to work on the bed that I am going to take charge of. 

I started at the back and didn’t really get very far, lots of roots and stones! I dug up some foxgloves and a couple of wild geraniums and replanted then in the area I dug today. This is going to be a work in progress for some time. We have discussed it and I m going to make it into a pollinator bed, rather that just wild flowers, although there will still be wild flowers, hopefully!

Darren gave me a lift into Dunkeld for the knit and natter group as I had walked both ways this morning and it was raining. I carried on with the never ending embroidery and was lucky enough to get a lift home today.

It has been a murky day as these two photos show.

Off to a different WI this evening, they have invited Birnam WI to a fundraising bingo evening. A lady is picking me up in a bit, as Tina is a lot better but still not well enough to be going out and about

Bit snap happy!

 This morning was taken up with usual household stuff but did cut some of the stripped reeds to go in with the canes in the bucket!

I went for a walk along the river path this afternoon in the opposite direction to Dunkeld. I was playing around with photos today, for my pleasure as much s nice ones to put on the blog. So feel free to skip through them I will put a boring one of a tree first, quite a few by the river and on the other side of the pth had wire frames round them, but they are mature trees so o wondered if there were maybe beavers in the area. Anyway, it just seemed odd.

Now for the rest!

I will be getting dinner soon and then off to the film society this evening to see ‘I swear’.

A pretty good day

This morning I wasn’t as achy as I thought I would be so had a walk into Dunkeld. I went along the river path which is getting a bit muddy in places now but not enough to make me go the road way. Not much colour on the trees yest but plenty on the ground.

This tree has no leaves left!

I did a bit of shopping in Dunkeld and had a drink before coming home. Took photos either side of the bridge.

Some canes arrived yesterday so I sorted out hacksaw, files nd clamp and cut a few indoors.

Then took everything outside and cut quite a lot more. I have filed them a bit and cleaned some holes, still ness to sandpaper them and cut quite a lot more!

Tina did go into church as a wedding was booked for today but she is still really not well so I got dinner early so I could settle down for Strictly. Over two hours, but a good show.

Will finish with a photo Darren took from the back door a few minutes ago.

Slow start, exhausting finish!

This morning was quiet, bit of jigsaw, went to the library to collect a couple of books for Tina. While I was there, I saw Moira who runs the garden group. I asked her if she would mind if I took responsibility for the wild flower area and she was delighted, so that is good. I put a few bits in the jigsaw and did a sketch of the church from a photo.

The canes I ordered have arrived and I have two small metal buckets, just need the reed screening to arrive and I can think bout starting the bee house.

This afternoon I decided to try and walk to The Hermitage which I haven’t done for a while. Obviously took some photos on the way and when I eventually got to the waterfall.

The donut kiosk was still open so I had hot chocolate and two donuts before walking home.

I really struggled walking home, think willpower got me here! I just took a couple of pictures on the way.

It was a relief to sit and get my feet up when I did get home, and I won’t be venturing far from it this evening. The hearing aid app says I did over 14,000 steps, I had better have a few shorter walks and build my stamina up again!