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Hickory supervises all jigsaw puzzling in our house.

#Caturday

Back in the sunny week in April, I took 57 runners from our old strawberry bed to make a new bed further away from the greenhouse. (I'd placed the runners on trays of soil last autumn so I guess they were fully rooted young plants rather than strictly runners at that stage.)

I think the move slightly panicked them as they've made berries earlier than the old bed, but they'll recover and yay, first berry crop of the year!

(Mucky hand in pic for gardening realism)

#GrowYourOwn #gardening

Had a sewing afternoon.

I mended a crotch rip (courtesy of an awkward stile) on some old walking trousers and took up a pair of new-to-me trousers by 12cm so I no longer look like I'm playing dress up.

Then, inspired by various cool kids on here, I thought to extend pockets on two pairs of new-to-me cropped chinos. Wanted to do the left back pocket on each but did accidentally did the right one on the first. Checked really carefully for the second pair, then did the right one again 🤣 oh well!

The dog and her wobbly belly disturbed us on Monday and Tuesday nights; last night, she was quiet but there was the loudest thunderstorm I've ever heard in my life. I guess a change is as good as a rest, but you know what's better than a rest? Actual unbroken sleep.
Hello, duvet, my old friend.

And by that, I mean that one story has some actual relevance to local matters (the planning one) and the other two are clickbait nonsense.

I didn't click on any of them.

Just reading my local newspaper's website this morning.

One of those stories is not like the others.

A late #Caturday entry: Kaufman being a cutey the other morning.

He was making "come look at me" noises next to the bed until I complied. I enjoyed looking at him.

All in all, we had a fantastic holiday. We ended up with much better weather than had been forecast, though the constant cold wind put us off swimming as much as we would have liked.

We met lots of lovely people/dogs and there was even a cat holidaying on one of the campsites: a beautiful bengal being taken for walks on a lead.

The beauty of Gigha and the Slate Islands was a delight: the types of beaches and landscapes that we usually have to travel much further to see. Recommend!

Finally, we stopped into Glasgow for brunch on the way back. We had great food at Scran and Rosey sprinted at full speed around the Green - then we got chatting to some dog walkers who told us to get the hell out of town ASAP because Celtic were about to win the championship and ... yeah. On the way back to the van, we inadvertently ended up wandering through what would soon be the epicentre of the celebrations: the riot cordons/many lingering police were quite a change from our previous week 🤣