ELEANOR MORTON: AFTER A YEAR IN SCOTLAND DAY 11 6 DECEMBER 2025
I had sent THIS YouTube short video, which is quite funny, to Jackie. To which Jackie replied: Lol, very good. We used to go to Aberdour in the school holidays when we lived in Edinburgh. We could see it across the water from our sitting room window. It is on the east coast, north of Edinburgh. Kilmarnock is 10 miles from me; it's a big town. But she could have been describing our village of Neilston, 1.5 miles down the hill. Four and one-half miles [from me] is Barrhead a small town that is apparently pronounced bathed.

	A BIT O' SCOTTISH HISTORY DAY 12 7 DECEMBER 2025
Do you remember the old western movies where the wagon train would be rolling along between some hills or rocky outcrops? Well, I was sitting looking at my view today. It wasn't raining for at least one hour. I was scanning the skyline for deer or a fox and I noticed somthing on the top of the hill . . . To me it looked like a line of injuns just waiting to swoop down and surround the wagon train. Or it could have been the clans gathering with [Sir William] Wallace to charge down the hill, claymores held high, shouting, "What's like us? Dam few an they're aw deid!" Hamish on sentry duty . . . He couldn't see out the windows in my previous house. It looks even funnier when I have the light on under his chin.

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