Happily Ever After

Life in The Rural Retreat with a beautiful wife, three cats, garden wildlife, a camera, a computer – and increasing amounts about running

Earlier posts can be found on Adventures of a Lone Bass Player, where this blog began life. Recent entries can be found here.

Spring Is Unsprung

by admin - 16:52 on 22 March 2015

It couldn't last forever – after almost a week of springlike temperatures and sunshine (apart from the cloudy morning of the eclipse) today the mercury plummeted. This is of particular displeasure to cats who just a couple of days ago were rolling on their backs in the dust and the sun (well, Pandora and Willow were – Maia's too dignified) and enjoying long rambles outside The Rural Retreat in search of lizards and rodents. Today they've mooched around the cottage like bored children (hungry ones, in Maia's case) and stared, affronted, through cat-flap and window at the greyness outside.

The good weather lasted long enough for me to carry out raking and ignite a two-day bonfire, although I didn't quite get around to some much-needed weeding.

Conditions were particularly fine yesterday when we took a jaunt via Nairn and Grantown to Glenlivet so Matchgirl could examine the route of a 10k she's to run in a couple of weeks' time. Hares and pheasants abounded, as did motorbikes, so it was a shame we were aboard Son of Seat rather than Kawasaki San. Joint map-reading is much easier in a car.

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