Memo, Mail & Me: It's Monday April 10th

A big Monday wave to all & linking in with our hostess, Sian at:  From High In The Sky

There was no mail to speak of this week, I think one or two flyers for internet services.   

New adventure; we took some time off the patio & attended festivities in Fergus for Tartan Day.  The weather was most co-operative with sunshine & warmer temperatures.

 

 We watched some highland dancing or what seemed to be more highland flinging by some of the little bitty ones - so cute.   

 

We had tea & scones at a,  if memory services me, a new to us tea room - Bentley's.  The brown sugar cinnamon scones were just out of the oven so still warm - oh yes.  Mr Man said that they tasted like another, he did, I didn't  ... and they had many variety of teas.  We settled on their house black tea blend.  Very satisfying.

When the lady put our tea pot down on the table, she also brought a tea timer with her.  This was new to us.  It was a 3 sand sphere timer, each with different sized & amount of sand.  Each individual hour glass represented a different strength of the tea - green was weaker, brown mid strength & white was for the builders type tea.  Mr Man was so taken with this gadget that he bought one for us.

We finally got to see Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them. We thought that Dan Fogler as Jacob was quite a good character. Overall neither of us liked the movie & were very disappointed, normally I like Eddy Redmayne but he mumbled throughout the whole movie!  


I hope everyone has a marvelous week ahead.   

"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world & a desire to enjoy the world.  This makes it hard to plan the day."   E.B. White

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. E. B. White
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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. E. B. White
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A post script to Tartan Day:  it is celebrated world wide & on several different days.  We in Canada don't celebrate Tartan Day on July 1st because that is our nation's birthday.  

Tartan Day is all about The Act of Proscription (19 Geo. 2, c. 39) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which came into effect in Scotland on 1 August 1746. It was part of a series of efforts to assimilate the Scottish Highlands, ending their ability to revolt, and the first of the 'King's laws' which sought to crush the Clan system in the aftermath of the Jacobite Rising of 1745. These laws were finally repealed on 1 July 1782.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. E. B. White
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