To the gym today In search of desperately needed exercise indoors. Outside we have been battered all day by storm force winds which have demolished a second section of fence. The owner of the garden has now removed the fence, tied it down and left it in his garden.

The trouble with gym is the repititous and boring exercises on such devices as the cycling and walking machines, the skiing simulator and various pulleys for strengthening your arms and other muscles. But better than fighting the winds outside.

We bought our christmas tree today and it is bundled up in the garden to await the arrival of our middle daughter who we hope will erect the tree in a bucket filled with logs. Its quite a big tree for a small house>

Hope for a quiet day tomorrow-we certainly deserve one

Labels: Gym, Hurricane winds

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The Hutton Effect

Here we were in Duns moaning about the appalling weather and all nostalgic for the lazy hazy summer days of a Hutton summer, dry and balmy as the rain poured down on the Paxton road just beyond the 30mph limit. We are now slightly more reconciled to our new habitat thanks to the current Old Manseians who have very kindly sent Huttonian this image of some of the apple trees partially stripped of fruit and in one case almost uprooted by the fierce winds of last week. All that the feebler Duns hurricane could come up with was removing the metal hood from the steel chimney jutting out of the roof from the wood burning stove and conveying it goodness knows where. No sign in the garden or in the house next door. Fortunately the garden at the S-H-i-D
is very sheltered and our tiny new fruit trees escaped unscathed-both apples still intact on one.

Anyone in greater Duns who comes across the chimney hood and/or scattered remains of Friday's Gurdian blasted out of the recycling bag is welcome to keep the latter

Labels: Hurricane winds, Old Manse, Small House in Duns

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