When thinking about the snippets to include, it is sometimes the day afterwards I think “Ah, I meant to include xyz”. Today it was another linking factor between the Old City and the rural area. Religion. The old city has a congregation worth of 13 and 14C Churches of some grandeur, Christian in varying guises. Paganism (a judgemental name from the “winning side”?) was common in the rural areas until late 16C. Literacy rates were lower, and the missionary priests didn’t speak the lingo. The peasants didn’t care much for Latin. Not until the printing of the translated Bible did Christianity start to take hold. Now you know.
Not sure that squares with St Columba and others landing in rural Scotland 1000 years earlier. Unless the midges had something to do with it.
Today was bike building in the afternoon.
Morning filled with the out of town Botanic Gardens. Tranquil apart from the wind whistling through the trees and distributing the misty air evenly. Take my hat off to whatever quantum forces are holding the plants’ flowers in place. Artic plants thrive here for some reason.
Barbara is getting into the swing of asking for pensioner discount. They do look at her twice. I pretend not to be offended.
Travelling reflections 