Back in Moy and the temperature rose by 15 degrees in 24hrs so suddenly the grass is appearing again and I was able to bring my car down the drive and finally unload the scaffold boards. Although it is possible that there will be more snow I am optimistic that I will be able to start constructing the raised beds soon.
Richards Mum and Dad are still with us and on Saturday we went with them to take a look at the lodge where we had first stayed with them in Aviemore and which was the base for our family holidays up here for 25 years. It was refurbished last year and we were keen to see the result as other units we had seen had been hideous and we had voiced our concerns to the management there. In fact the refurbishment is lovely and we were pleased to see the lodge restored to a high standard of decor as it had begun to look very 'tired'. We are planning to hold on to it for the time being so it is possible that we will all decamp to there when we eventually redo the kitchen here. We were also pleased to see that after many years of arguing that it had originally slept eight, they have finally installed a bed-settee restoring it to that status.
We took a trip up Cairngorm as well on Saturday as there was an attempt on the world record for the most kilted skiers which was quite a sight. 
They ski-ed from the Ptarmigan restaurant at the top of cairngorm accompanied by a piper and drummer. The Cairngorm ski club were the last to come down performing a scottish reel with a certain amount of kilt swirling!! Enough said!!
Richard and I are going ski-ing again on Tuesday - at least, that's the idea.....the couple who have offered to take us, Carol and (confusingly) Richard, may not realise what they have taken on but Richard assures me that he will get me ski-ing off piste before long - we shall see..Richard and carol will get the chance to do some more advanced stuff while I learn how to stop!!
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