New website for Christmas
Dear Santa. Please bring me a new website for Christmas. I wrote my wee note and sent it up the chimney (- well up the woodburning stove flue, but let's not split hairs). And lo, from the east (Edinburgh actually) Santa sent an elf called John Robertson from www.linksstreet.co.uk and he worked some magic and fiddled about with html and other complicated things, and now I have a new website in time for Christmas.
It has all kinds of lovely things like pictures and tours and calendars and I have learned how to update it myself, and I also have this blog page so I can keep you all informed about anything exciting that happens. You might think that in such a pretty, rural, unspoiled place like Comrie, there would be nothing to write about, but let me tell you it's a bit like living in the Archers round here. For overseas people, the Archers is a radio soap opera - an everyday story of countryfolk - which has been running for something like 60 years. And before you ask, no I haven't heard all of it! So yes, Comrie is wee, but it is VERY busy and lots of things happen, especially if you're here at the right time.
Christmas is all but upon us, and I put up the tree in the Bobbin Mill today in time for our visitors arrival. It is a very fat tree, but the living room is big so there is space and I think it looks lovely, even if it did swallow 400 LED lights. It's a bit squint but it was the best I could do. Who says trees should always be straight anyway? The next big occasion after Christmas is Hogmanay, or New Year's Eve, to Non Scots, and Comrie has its own very particular and rather wonderful celebration called the Flambeaux. I shall post more about that nearer the time. In the meantime, I wish good things for all for Christmas. May your crackers crack, your stockings be full and may you find the sixpence in the Christmas pudding.
