Tales of Home [9]

Very nice! Being a red-head myself I deal with the sun by straw hats. But I take it Scotland is rather lacking in straw hats.

lovely Petty,

obviously not the burnt arse.

what are those blue flowers?

{{{ parva hyacintho flores   }}

Great pics Lovely countryside by you, just the place I love to be

I take it Scotland is rather lacking in straw hats.- Halfy

{{Indeed- the English are rather keen on them you see- straw boaters and the like, so obviously a true and proud Scot would never wear something English but show our defiance of all things empirical yolky by dropping dead of skin cancer! That shows 'em!!!   I want a trilby as I still think the 1950's was the best dressed decade ever but my better half thinks I'd look ridiculous in one, but as I already look fairly ridiculous anyway I dont see the problem!    }}}

Petty if you ever go to Pastalandia you are going to need a large sombrero so you can keep your kilt out of the sun, all that crust may make it spontaneously combust.

...and DONT go in August. its horrible. even July is pushing it, the climate has got worse over the last couple of years, it was 45 degrees with humidity it felt like 49 degrees, that's 120 like walking into a sweaty oven, in the middle of August. total nightmare. unless of course you are in the mountains over 1000 feet and then its ok.

{{Plan is for me to go sometime about February I think, I'm hoping for drizzle    and apparently there's a big festival in her home town about then so, bevvy!  }}}

February is ok, its a bit like the UK at that time of year, but maybe 5-10 degrees warmer depending on which bit of Pastalandia it is. The very best time is April, May, September and October. Worst is January, July and August, very worstly worstest is August. There are no Italians in Pastalandia in August, they all leave. its just tumbleweed and tourists gently frying..

This is a rose we planted in memory of my sons cat that died 2 yrs ago. The rose is called "Just Joey" & my son's cat was named Joey.

that's an unusual colour, very pretty.

First of my clematis to bloom

It smells lovely too Figgs

{{That rose is beautiful Az- a lovely tribute }}

Thank you. Pets touch our hearts deeper than some humans. Once known, never forgotten.

{{ Why going camping round my bit of the world at this time of year is a very bad idea! }}

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-44389775/midges-swarm-in-argyll

So when's the good time of year?

{{Spring is good- reasonable chance of decent weather and no midges- from now till August its midge season so going to have to put up with the little buggers till then - after that your pretty much fine. Personally I like December/January/Febuary for camping round here. Its cold yes but you can wrap up against that and have a fire and a drop of buckie, but you tend to get completely clear starry nights that makes it all worth it.  }}

I like leaves on the trees when I'm camping.

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You might by now be wondering on the wisdom of a kilt to wear in a country invested with these little buggers every summer.
And thats probably because when I say kilt you're thinking of something like this-



now this fine fellow (eyes on the kilt!!! ) has no chance of making it across a midgie invested heather clad hillside without his balls getting chewed till they are redder than my arse was that time Pretty tied me to the barbecue, and swollen larger than Pretty's last implants were. This kilt is midgie hell- which is why no-one actually wore one of these back in the day.

They wore one of these- a true plaid kilt- the great kilt as modelled by these historical types and their beards!







These sort have a hell of a lot of material in them and full of pleats, you can wear them pretty much as you like, they can be folded so as to have carrying layers like cloth bags, hoods, complete face wrap (for the midgies) and of course you can 'nappy' it and what with all the folds and pleats in the cloth there's little chance of the midgie finding its way through and at night its more than large enough when unrolled to completely encase you for sleeping. }}}

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This isn't my home, of course but, its someone's. I thought this was photoshopped till I saw the people & birds

That lava is scary fast!