Variety is the spice of life they say: a week ago Sunday it was a venerable hotel in Aberdeen for a traditional wedding celebration;last Saturday a "bender" (willow trees and tarpaulins, not drunken rampages) on a damp Scottish hillside with a bonfire and musicians; and the day after that Perth Concert Hall with the amazing Nana Vasconcelos*, the Perth Youth Orchestra,Gaelic singer Aileen Ogilvie,Perth samba band Rhythm Wave and children from the Saturday `Cool Schools`,** music,on this occasion, being the food of international co-operation and much fun.
More cycling than walking this week as still feeding next door`s ducks and cats. Today an hour with dogs-on-leads who are with us for just a few more days before departing to their new homes.
A sense of everything winding down, days drawing in, the smell of wood smoke, the grass and vegetation flattened by rain. The bullocks, hefty beasts now, hardly look up at us, intent only on eating, with all that springtime exuberance vanished and ignoring the one lone swallow that swooped over their heads.
*http://www.drummerworld.com/drummers/Nana_Vasconcelos.html
**http://www.horsecross.co.uk/about/news/2010/gaelic-and-brazilian-music-come-together-simply-ab/
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