Slow progress

 But steady progress. There is so much to do, sometimes I feel like a rabbit caught in headlights....and get nothing done.

Wednesday I went on the bus to town thinking to sort the travel insurance in person as we have done before.... they stopped that after covid.....I ended up having an afternoon on buses....with a leg stretch between each one! Nice to travel around with someone else doing the driving, and with an elevated viewpoint compared to a car!

It was successful though...I managed to locate something special I've been hunting for to give as a present.   

I took some more photos of the bridges in Ayr...two foot bridges, two road bridges and two rail bridges...but one of the rail bridges only has the piers now, no trackbed.

And the Carnegie library 

Insurance sorted yesterday and campsite booked for May. Now to get the tent from my brother...

Still cloudy and grey today, but good enough to half dry this morning's washing. 

This afternoon's job was to start clearing rubbish out of one shed and clean the bike I'll start riding next week..I have been promised a hand with some mechanicing.

And now it has gone dark...at 4.50pm.

The eyes have it

 Today wasn't inspiring either..still grey and getting chillier....but at least I got the sheet and towels wash on the line and half dry!

A text arrived to remind me that it was eye check time...I phoned them and they had a slot free this afternoon!

I managed to fit in lunch and dealing with the wild pears before going...they were washed and de-stalked and put in the freezer. Freezing means that I'll get more juice from them. And the stalks clog up the mincer!!

The eye examination went fine..no change needed to the specs I've had for about six years...just a slight change in my eyes from last year but no worries. They did my hearing check as well - passed with flying colours! And no change since the first one two years ago....that I'd had to get Pirate to have his checked!!!

Then a walk around town...a bit of exercise while I waited for the bus.

That's the Auld Brig... From the 1700s I think...that had a rebuild in the 1700s.

The new one from the 1800s is to the right of the top photo...and that had to have a complete rebuild quite soon after it was first put there!!