Scamp got the all clear.
I was up and out today driving to Boots Chemist to pick up a five pack of Covid test kits. The cold, flu or dare I whisper it (Covid) wasn’t lifting and the only way we would know what was going on was to do The Test. Thankfully, it was negative and we both breathed a sigh of relief. Now we could venture out without worrying.
I suggested we go to The Smiddy just outside Stirling. It’s a good place to go for lunch. A day in the sunshine, in the country would hopefully brighten up our day even more. It worked. We drove out into the farmland just a couple of miles north of Stirling. We knew the food would be good, and were prepared to be handed a buzzer and told how long the wait for a table would be. But we were wrong. There was no buzzer because there were quite a few empty tables. Mac ’n’ Cheese for Scamp and Shepherd’s Pie for me. Both were declared perfect for a lunch in the country.
The food was good, but the prices in the deli were eye watering, although I did look twice at some nice thick steaks in the butchers department. It was the price of coffee that nearly knocked me off my feet. An almost 50% markup on a bag of coffee is just a bit greedy IMO!
We stopped at Lakeland/Dobbies, (the two are now conjoined, but are separate shops) and I was tempted by a Sage coffee maker with a £100 markdown. I was tempted, but decided I’d spent enough this month.
For once Scamp didn’t go looking in Dobbie’s and we came home with some paper liners for a cake tin.
Back home, Scamp was keen to get some bulbs planted for spring flowering. While she was splitting up some plants, I was handed a trowel and two bags of spring bulbs and was given a 400mm square patch of earth to plant them in. I think I put them all in the ground the right way up, so they won’t be growing down into Australia. I just need to remember where they are planted. It will be a surprise. To finish off our day in the garden, we took down the sweet pea canes and netting, kept the canes and put all the twine and plastic clips in the bin. The canes are now drying off in the front bedroom for next year, all being well.
PoD turned out to be a photo of what looked like a genuine American policy car. A Black and White. It was only when I looked inside the car I noticed the steering wheel was on the right side. Otherwise it just looked the part. Someone spent a lot of time and effort getting this looking just right.
Tomorrow Scamp is intending to go for lunch with the rest of The Witches and I’m hoping to meet Alex for a wander round Glasgow.