Reading the Sunday Papers

This week's Strathearn Herald--"the Strathie"--ran this photo of adorable children from the Muthill pre-school on the day the Crieff Paramedics and their vehicle visited the class last week. Don and I both just burst out laughing in delight when we got to this photo so we thought you'd enjoy seeing it too.

Another item from the Strathie comes from its retrospective section from a 1907 archive:

"Dominoes are a 'notorious evil'

A comment on the evils of domino playing in public-houses (pubs) appeared in the paper during the first week of May in 1907. The writer, having noted that Perth Licensing Appeal Court had been considering the topic, stated: 'Are the members of the Central District Licensing Court, which sits at Crieff, aware of the amount of domino playing that takes placer in some of the public houses in Crieff, thereby inducing large numbers of young men not only to play the game, but to indulge in drinking? This, I believe is a notorious evil, and the Justices at their next Court ought to put a stop to it'."

Harrumph! (And Prof. Harold Hill thought pool tables were dangerous!)

I think I'm over the worst of my cold. I had a good night's sleep last night and awoke this morning feeling much better. I'm still coughing occasionally and my nose is stuffy now and then, but by and large, there is great improvement. Just in the nick of time, too, as it's time to get the clothes washed and our bags packed for our week away in Italy (more about that tomorrow).

We've finally gotten some rain, which will help the garden a lot. Azaleas have bloomed and now the rhodies are beginning to do so. Fruit trees are on their last week and the daffs and tulips are now finished. There will be much work to do in the garden after we return but it will be two weeks from today before that happens. We arrive back on Wednesday the 16th in the early evening and I only have Thursday in which to get the laundry done and pack an overnight bag for my stay on Friday night in Glasgow. In addition, I must pack all my supplies for the all-day quilting workshop I'll be taking on Saturday. Don and I will go to the Loch Lomond Quilt Show with others from Comrie on Friday 18th May and he'll come home with them. I'll stay overnight with Syd and Lorna Peedle, our friends who live just outside of Glasgow but own Comrie Cottage here in Comrie where we used to do self-catering. Fortunately, we've already made plans with Gordon and Helen Rae to go out to the Royal for supper on Thursday the 17th so that we don't have to worry about that evening meal!