Friday, 27 December 2024

Mispent youth

I've been gathering pictures which sum up a lot of my misspent youth 😊 pubs etc in the Broch, below is the Alexndra Hotel where I worked in the summer as a student, I used to work in a small bar upstairs called Jeans bar, iwould serve drinks and takes orders for and serve lunches, at the weekends I would work in the main function bar with my sister serving at weddings, man they were full on. It was hard work but I have fond memories of it, it was knocked down decades ago sadly, lovely building 

Balaclava omg loved this bar, there was always a singer, Billie she played a keyboard and sang remember her belting out "River deep mountain high " 🥰
Ahhh no sign but this is "The Oak upstairs" we sometimes went into oak downstairs but preferred upstairs, I remember walking into it, dark gloomy bar at the end but nobody could see you were underage 🤣🤣
The crown bar 😊 tucked away up a side street, great view over the harbour, no ladies toilets in the bar but you got a man o check if I was empty then guard the door for you 🤣🤣 they do great camp coffee with rum
The ship Inn this was our main haunt so many tears she'd in the loos loads of dancing drinking just kids having fun 😊

 

Monday, 16 December 2024

Uncle John

 My uncle John passed away December 14th 2024, he was 93. The photo below was taken when he visited from Canada in the late 90s
I loved my uncle John, he was a father figure I never had.
I was up at my mams last year and he phoned, he didn't say much but he said "I love you Sheila" I said "I love you too" can't ask for better than that


Below is my mam and Uncle John
Uncle John and his grandfather





Monday, 9 December 2024

December seasons

Well! Here we are at December I can't get over how different our back garden looks now with all the trees gine behind it, everything is so grey just now it's 7.e0 here and the sun is beginning to think about coming out neighbours scraping car windscreens it's a but frosty out there.
I'm in a quandary about what to take for next year's spot, it's got to be in the garden for many reasons mainly I cant get out of the house yet!
But also me and school have made a bug decision we Will move from this house in 3 years, thatsbwhen we pay off the mortgage, we can then look at moving to a bungalow, this house is not accessible we need to be on one level, i hope by then I am way more mobile but even then this house is too big to upkeep
It will be a wrench but good in the long run
I want to document the back garden through the seasons for the next 3 years but what to pick? Let's see 😊

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September 
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November 
December