Week 3 and general loveliness

 I have gotten into the rhythm of collecting the postcards and stitching the book. This time, the book was stitched before lunch on Sunday!

I delivered it back to the Museum at opening on Monday morning and it has joined the other two books as an ongoing record of visitors' thoughts.

They are forming a lovely gathering.

I spoke to lots of folk through the week about this question, and so many of the adults were almost embarrassed to say they would take their phone.  We talked through how it actually holds lots of information as well as lots of photos; enables us to do banking; and may hold our passwords and apps to access so many functions. We all agreed in the end it was OK!

Photographs remained a priority for nearly everyone. There was discussion about how so many of our possessions are just 'things' in the end; but there was a lot of pondering about things of sentimental or familial value - taking jewellery for example that had been handed down thru the generations so that there was something for future generations as well.

So many interesting discussions.

Through the week we had some truly magnificent blue sky days. On one of them we headed to Tongue, to climb to Castle Varrich. The views from the top were astonishing.

I received an Aurora alert late at night on the night of the full moon and thought there was no chance of seeing the Northern Lights. The moon was so bright, and the streetlights in the village were also on. They were slightly stronger out the back where there is little or no ambient light; but here they are shimmering in the corner with a bright full moon AND streetlights! I was amazed that was even possible.

Taken at 2.03am

And last but never least, flowers keep me happy and they get scattered all over the house and as bunches get reduced. single blooms hold their own. A fading cornflower on our new kitchen bench.