It's Thursday and I'm in the Broch as usual. All our weekly management meetings are over and I'm having my lunch now - the taste panel, followed by crackers and cheese. It's a fantastic looking day - so bright and sunny, but the temperature is still in very low digits.
I took a walk out into our yard and beyond to the public footpath just outside our factory fence. Did I tell you that it had partially collapsed/eroded in to the sea below a few months ago? We managed to establish that it is the Council's responsibility but all they have done so far is put up a sign and some temporary fences:
That's Scotland's National Lighthouse Museum in white at the back, and an old Wine Tower to the right, with the fence marking our factory to the left. The bit that's collapsed can't quite be seen in the above photo, but perhaps it's a bit clearer below:
Meanwhile a group of birds - cormorants perhaps? - were sunning themselves on the rocks:
The seagulls had their own rock:
If I had a gun! Where is Scott when you need him? These pests swarm all over our yard and they're a perennial problem for us.
Those views were looking mostly west and north, but, heading the other way, there are the large pelagic trawlers, which are laid up at this time of year, awaiting the next fishery - herring in June/July:
To the left of them, looking south now, is the other lighthouse at the end of the harbour wall:
So, if you've never been to Fraserburgh before, you've some idea of what it looks like now.
It was warm enough to go out without a coat, but the following graphic on Facebook showed an interesting comparison with the same time last year:
Yes, it really was 24 C in Deeside last March. As if to underline how nice a day it is today, though, our receptionist has just been round to the shops and come back with a small tub of ice cream for everyone in the office - how nice!
No snow anywhere near the coast of course, but inland it's still lying in places and it looks almost certain that the opening day of the golf season on Saturday will be cancelled in Banchory. I had therefore tentatively suggested that Jo and I take the chance to go to Nairn on Saturday and take in the Beer Festival at the Braeval Hotel again, but, being Easter Sunday this weekend, Jo wasn't keen - although it rather looks like we're going to be on our own for Easter Sunday Dinner as Luca has a birthday party to attend that day.
Oh - and next weekend, I finally managed to track down how we could get to the Ramsdens Cup Final on Sunday 7th - corporate hospitality at Livingston! Looking forward to taking the boys to the match and to hopefully seeing the Jags overcome QoS and lift some silverware for the first time since 23rd October, 1971 - well before Gary and Ross were born. As a precursor to that, last night Thistle went to the top of the 1st Division Table:
TABLES
| PD | PT | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Partick | 28 | 62 |
| 2 | Morton | 29 | 61 |
| 3 | Livingston | 27 | 43 |
| 4 | Dunfermline | 30 | 41 |
| 5 | Falkirk | 29 | 40 |
| 6 | Raith | 28 | 34 |
| 7 | Hamilton | 27 | 32 |
| 8 | Dumbarton | 28 | 30 |
| 9 | Cowdenbeath | 29 | 29 |
| 10 | Airdrie | 29 | 19 |
Not to mention Mojo's usual free monthly CD.
To close, it's my pal Dave Edwards' 64th birthday today but he's now in Cornhill, unlikely to get out again, and he will be blissfully unaware of what day it is. It's Doris that has to live with the loneliness now. There but for fortune.
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