Och, we were soo hot overnight. It’s always these doonas they give you, with no sheets. Our cottage had warmed nicely with those mobile column heaters, including one upstairs in our bedroom, but we found it awfully hot. Tonight we will have a wee window open, and we took the heater downstairs to help warm that space. It rained most of the night and was still drizzling this morning so we swapped our plans for today and did Tuesday itinerary instead of Monday itinerary. Today we set off for Keith, driving through and around many localities that my paternal ancestors lived in. It’s lovely to view their homelands, and see where they came from. Our trip from here on is 90% about Alec’s ancestors. Alec always lived with my grandparents and five years ago when my
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