Well I'm not complaining, because Gail drove me in the car to her garage, and while nice Phil was fitting her winter tyres we went for a walk up to the University of Aberdeen campus. In the time it took for me to pose in front of buildings old and new, the car was made ready for the snow and ice.
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| King's College Chapel (c.1500) |
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| Sir Duncan Rice Library (2012) |
But I do wonder why the need to spend money (which could be used for dog treats) on preparing the car for the sort of wintery conditions which are these days not so often experienced in Scotland.
Gail points out that our Torridon cottage is located at the bottom of a 15% gradient hill with sharp bends, and in a part of the world where everyone knows everyone else's business, she doesn't want to find fame as the idiot who had to be rescued because her car didn't have the right tyres and so it slipped off the road when there was just a sprinkling of snow and a small patch of ice!
I guess that's reasonable.
PS from Gail: readers might have noticed some rather blurry photos of late. A couple of months ago my phone camera started refusing to focus in certain situations and I still can't work out why.
