What's the Story in Dalamory » summer http://www.freda.org.uk Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:37:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Encampment http://www.freda.org.uk/2009/05/31/encampment/ http://www.freda.org.uk/2009/05/31/encampment/#comments Sun, 31 May 2009 06:26:33 +0000 freda http://www.freda.org.uk/?p=2286 Continue reading →]]> Yesterday reminded me so much of holidays in Luskentyre during the long summer days on the Island of Harris. Those were the days of terry towelling nappies and small children. Washing clothes out in a bucket of cold water under the running tap. The “caravan site” had three static caravans and two small toilets plus the tap in the middle of the field. We looked out on the sand dunes and the Atlantic and the days always seemed long and satisfying. The children and their friends ran down the hillside pulling their younger siblings in cardboard boxes; so much for health and safety.Can’t say the days were always sunny, but it is on sunny days that such memories come to the fore.

Misty, Him Behind the Wheel and myself had our own encampment of loungers, sun parasoles, and accoutrements of coffee table and assorted drinks out in the front garden. Sheer bliss. (I refuse to think about the forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday!) Am resolved to enjoy the summer while it lasts.

Happy Pentecost!

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]]> http://www.freda.org.uk/2008/05/27/swifts/feed/ 4 Where did spring go? http://www.freda.org.uk/2008/04/27/where-did-spring-go/ http://www.freda.org.uk/2008/04/27/where-did-spring-go/#comments Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:48:36 +0000 freda http://www.freda.org.uk/?p=1701 Continue reading →]]> Came home today after a couple of days away visiting friends. Something had happened in Dalamory whilst we were absent: spring had never come and the summer arrived. So we had a barbecue. And very good it was too.

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