Sunny Days

          It was a bank holiday yesterday and the weather was glorious. I was at Newcastle Battle Abbey and the middle photie is of Borthwick Castle. You can see Crighton Castle from there. Lots of castles in Scotland!

          Every day the meditations seem to move on. Rollercoaster these days. I'm so looking forward to the next few months!!

Pressmennan Wood

                    I've started watching Russia Today over the last few days. It's referred to by our media as a propaganda news station and it probably is. Unlike the BBC of course. The first ten minutes of the evening news on Friday was devoted to the royal wedding, which was due to happen the NEXT  day. Well, can that be even counted as news, something that hasn't happened yet?
 
                    Anyone who knows me knows how much I love being a subject  of our royal family, but I had to go to Pressmennan Wood when there was nothing else but advertisements for the Breetish establishment on the telly and it was very beautiful there yesterday.

Beautiful May days.

          The top photie shows the view from the door of my hut these days, now that someone else is working the other half of the plot. I was up the allotment today and planted some tatties and some onions. I guess I should have all the allotment planted by the end of the week. It's so much easier than working a whole plot.

          I was at Lauriston Castle on Saturday and took the cherry  blossom photies then.

          The meditations are moving on at a helluva pace. Really don't know why.

Bluebell and Tulip Days Now

                    Yesterday I was at Kailzie Gardens, a place near Peebles. Very nice it is too!

                     I'm feeling entirely positive at the moment. 1988 is the year I look back on with special affection. I was looking after my baby daughter and off work and loving it. 1988 had one of those endless summers of childhood.

                    All I have to do is not get too pissed and lay off .... well, purification and accumulation is the name of the game. But the meditations yesterday were so, so good. You are supposed to be on a path, though you may not know where the path is leading you, so you can expect change in the meditations, or some development. Despite living like a normal idiot, the visualisations are getting much clearer, almost as if a switch was thrown a couple of months ago, but a bit slower than that.  The bliss has been fantastic too. I was meditating in bed yesterday morning, and even although I drank quite a lot of wine the night before, it is just almost straight into the great bliss. Of course, it would have been better for my concentration, etc., if I hadn't been pissed the night before, but .... I don't deserve this. I do feel blessed sometimes.

                   So I think this year could be special. Just love that the winter is behind us and the summer still in front. My nephew has passed recently and my brother nearly kicked the bucket last week, so I'm trying to take some impetus from this and stop wasting time drinking beer and such like.

                    On the other hand, everything is going splendidly.

Allotment stuff

                   First of all, I think I might have sorted the problem with uploading photies from my phone to this bloggy. So you share the photie on the phone to Google Photos. Then, when you want them, you can copy them from the photos place to your desktop, and copy them from there onto the blog. I think the main problem is this crap laptop which has never been able to recognise the phone when it's been attached. Basturns!

                   The bottom photie is of  the allotment yesterday afternoon. The paramedics are with a lady allotmenteer who seemed to have hurt her ankle. I had no idea. She was talking with someone when I dodged passed them and went to do the digging. Anyway, the poor woman was lying there on her own for about ten minutes .... I thought she might be having a wee rest, or be a bit pissed, or resting in the sunshine. So the paramedics were giving her nitrous oxide, and I heard today she was in agony. But not a cheep out of her. Stiff upper lip. She seemed to think her ankle was broken. Today it had grown to a broken leg with her break at a forty five degree angle, but I don't think it could have been that bad. But there you go. Calamity just waiting unexpectedly round the corner. Luckily, the guy who got half my allotment was there and got the medics to her. I'm bloody useless of course.

                    I did the first plantings today: onions and tatties. Piece of cake with only half an allotment these days.

                    My meditations got a boost when I got onto this buddhist pilgrimage in November. Actually, it looks like a brilliant pilgrimage. Northern India is my least favourite place, but it'll be great to be able to quiz the lama for three weeks or so. Hurrah!