Saturday, 29 November 2008

When icicles hang by the wall

This morning was still, frosty and the sun shone here just until it slipped under the cloud. So, I was out bright and early (well relatively) ... others - who had been up until midnight, some (me too) watching film noir (Double Indemnity) and others (wee folk) doing computer stuff on the kitchen table - were a little later.


When Mum was home for tea yesterday she joined in the games, in between re-arranging anything to hand, but she did scoff all of Gudrun's homemade pizza. The previous night - the day Sorley and Ben joined us - we celebrated thanksgiving with Gudrun, Maya and Sage. We had grilled organic salmon in teriyaki (Sorley had a quorn fillet) - which M & S now love and Ben discovered he quite liked too (!), then granny's apple pie (a la Laughton), which went down a treat too (last time I made it was in Mass I think).


Back to this morning: which reminds me that we had a discussion yesterday (Maya raised the topic) about what were, and what were the difference between, colons and semi-colons ... interesting but I do not think definitively resolved ... answers please on a postcard.
Part of the reason (the other being laziness and this really being a rationalisation) for not keeping our blog up to date, has been the awesome quality of Gudrun's photos. This morning I determined to try and match her.
Here are some high-flying cormorants.


And here the view back into Sandness.
I deleted the other 56 shots! And still the 3 I kept are not as good as Gudrun's ... must be the camera.
It is lovely to watch the cousins together. Even from my perspective I can remember the excitement that Sage can hardly contain as he waits, at breakfast, for Ben to get up!
Okay ... Saturday morning ... Gudrun and Sorley are off taking photos and I am looking after the kids ... very hard work.


Shortly, they are all off to the Walls pool and I will wash to kitchen floor. When they get back with Mum we will all consume Gudrun's yoghurt and spinach soup (I will observe Ben's reaction with interest - will be back with news of this, if you can wait?).