We arrived here at the end of February. At the time, there were only two Covid cases in Finland and none in the Highlands. However, as we passed through three airports we thought it would be a good idea to self-isolate for two weeks. On arrival we did our shopping. That was a big shop, but we weren’t exactly hoarding. We were back after four months in Finland and all we had was muesli and porridge oats. At this time, there were no shortages on supermarket shelves. After our two weeks we got to meet our friends Linda and Harry who had looked after our mail, our chateau and car during our absence. We took them out to lunch at Luigi’s and had a very nice couple hours catching up. A couple days later Linda and I went to the Dornoch Fibre Fest. Last year we went to the Loch Ness Knit Fest and Glasgow Craft Fair. These fairs are nice, yes, but I’m not going to go into quilting or felting or any of those paper craft things. Among lots of other handcrafty things, there are gorgeous hand dyed yarns I simply love, but the prices are pretty gorgeous as well. I have rather simple needs. Yarn and needles. I got myself a set of knitting needles, different sizes, in Glasgow but no one at the fair had enough of Aran wool for a spread. I got the yarn later, locally. We had plans to drive to various places in the Highlands for walks but before the lockdown only managed one further away, Creagh Meagaidh. There were skiiers up there enjoying what was left of the snow. They had to be real aficionados as there are no ski lifts. They walked up those slopes. – We still have our plans, just don’t know when we get to make them real. After a week the lockdown was announced. Stay at home, save lives. Which is what we’ve done. We were first allowed to exercise outside once a day, locally. Now we may exercise outside as much as we like, locally. We are getting to know our beautiful beach rather well. And the golf courses, which are closed. They are our carpet walks now. There is also a forest we can walk through which is very nice. All things considered, if you have to isolate I must say this is possibly the best place for it.
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