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I was completely exhausted and did not do much but Michael and Pauline cooked and fed us, and Anthony tidied up as we celebrated NYE in a different way than was planned!

I am lucky to have them all around me!

A strange New Year but at lease I was not dead.
Click lovely Vincent for some Hogmanay images.
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I was at PRI on 21st for a standard blood test for the high blood pressure and then went for a haircut in Perth with Anthony, only to get an urgent call from the hospital to come in immediately. When I arrived at Ward 4 I was fussed over and plugged into a range of machines and they started to pump litres of fluid into me. Thereafter there were sessions of insulin/glucose to slowly be injected at a rate of 1ml/minute in an attempt to remove the potassium from my kidneys. All this had happened because of the recent increase in dosage of a drug I was on and my heart was in danger of failing as the potassium levels were at 7.7 which allows you to knock at death's door.

The hospital were fantastic, food lovely even though my first night consisted of the night sister waking me twice to say my snoring was keeping everyone awake. Next night my room mates all got issued with earplugs and sleeping pills - oh the shame!

Got out on Christmas Eve after several visits from Ellen and Adam and Anthony and I was glad to be home. Had to return on 27th for follow-up tests, but it looks as if the nasty potassium has gone and I did not have to continue the potassium-free diet. You should look that up as in summary, as the consultant told me, everything healthy had to be avoided like brown bread, vegetables, lentils, coffee, chocolate. Basically everything from a seed or pod or that grew under the soil, including potatoes! What a nightmare!

Wired up and feeling sorry for myself.


All of these were going at once…

Adam came with me for my follow-up and we discussed going to the Red Brolly for a small snack (2 bacon rolls each…)
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We sat up far too late on Saturday night with log fires on and then after a long walk to Soldiers Leap came back to have breakfast as by then everyone was awake.

Great night! Click for more…
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I have joined the Toberargan Curling Team and we play and practice in the Dewars Centre in Perth once a fortnight. It is great fun. I have now bought my slippy/non-slippy shoe and broom. I am prepared. The cover for the slippy shoe sole is called a kipper, but it does not smell…
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What a great night it was, and it was not over! We went to Rab Ha's for a quiet drink afterward which did not last long as we met up with colleagues of Kathleen and dragged them to a nightclub where DaddyG and I danced the night away! Home to Kathleen's at 3am to be woken at 11:00 by Paul delivering Grace…]]>2017 Diary2017-10-20T10:26:13+01:00http://www.george-maclean.com/styled-4/styled-3/files/ee17a3d6460a495499765b5d7073d566-45.html#unique-entry-id-45http://www.george-maclean.com/styled-4/styled-3/files/ee17a3d6460a495499765b5d7073d566-45.html#unique-entry-id-45
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The rock is impressive.
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The weather was not too bad and we had a great time in the Battlefield. Had to take Vincent home as the horses were distressing him but the humans had a lovely afternoon.
Click on the firing guns to see more images.

Sunday we went to Queen's View which was gorgeous and then a relaxed coffee in the coffee shop there.]]>2017 Diary2017-07-18T19:29:58+01:00http://www.george-maclean.com/styled-4/styled-3/files/1d019868ee04fa368b45fa2946b0ac8f-28.html#unique-entry-id-28http://www.george-maclean.com/styled-4/styled-3/files/1d019868ee04fa368b45fa2946b0ac8f-28.html#unique-entry-id-28

Once we went back to see the vet we had the news that Alfie needed a knee operation and that if we wanted to it would happen on Wednesday, the very next day. It is quite a serious operation and we were struggling to hold back the tears. The vet gave us some time alone to wipe our faces and arranged for a goodnight kiss for us with Alfie. It was really difficult for us to leave him but I know he is in good hands.
UPDATE: Alfie has had is operation and is recovering well. We will get him home on Thursday.]]>2017 Diary2017-07-18T19:20:13+01:00http://www.george-maclean.com/styled-4/styled-3/files/7f007192f0c4b88b95c095416cdbae0a-26.html#unique-entry-id-26http://www.george-maclean.com/styled-4/styled-3/files/7f007192f0c4b88b95c095416cdbae0a-26.html#unique-entry-id-26Sunday was the main event with the highest-up-the-candle (they were burning fingers on the flame) Anglican mass I have ever been to. It was so Catholic I thought it was Dominica Rite! Afterwards the unaccompanied young men (of which there were many) were invited to the crypt for champagne. Lovely all round. Then it was back to the club for our Templar lunch which was a huge success - much laughter and good company!]]>2017 Diary2017-07-11T19:26:20+01:00http://www.george-maclean.com/styled-4/styled-3/files/1e2bfbb0d9a96d4af48d58d2589a7bac-27.html#unique-entry-id-27http://www.george-maclean.com/styled-4/styled-3/files/1e2bfbb0d9a96d4af48d58d2589a7bac-27.html#unique-entry-id-27]]>2017 Diary2017-06-23T13:41:12+01:00http://www.george-maclean.com/styled-4/styled-3/files/aedb3ac5921071358e3e572959148d89-25.html#unique-entry-id-25http://www.george-maclean.com/styled-4/styled-3/files/aedb3ac5921071358e3e572959148d89-25.html#unique-entry-id-25Dinner with some members on Friday night in the Rathaus and then Saturday events and dinner later. What a great time. Below is me half-blinged up for the Saturday events.

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I had a day in London this week which was very busy. Doggies have been very naughty this week with digging holes that are driving Jimmy the Gardener mad, but some new plants went in so we wait Mother Nature to do her tricks and see them grow! Last week, I forgot to add that Anthony has passed his first year at University of the Highlands and Islands and is looking forward to starting again at the end of the summer - well done to him!
This week busy as always and a trip to Bremen for GP Germany annual convent and to say farewell to the grand prior whose term of office comes to an end next Saturday. I have not been in Bremen since 1985 so that will be a nice trip indeed!]]>2017 Diary2017-06-05T13:09:37+01:00http://www.george-maclean.com/styled-4/styled-3/files/6bfcceb09c5a7e9c3da8d2a37c9707eb-23.html#unique-entry-id-23http://www.george-maclean.com/styled-4/styled-3/files/6bfcceb09c5a7e9c3da8d2a37c9707eb-23.html#unique-entry-id-23Clickable image below.

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Here are Andrew and Danielle.]]>2017 Diary2017-06-02T16:59:35+01:00http://www.george-maclean.com/styled-4/styled-3/files/42e0647a6e117c8762203fe4c7d82738-22.html#unique-entry-id-22http://www.george-maclean.com/styled-4/styled-3/files/42e0647a6e117c8762203fe4c7d82738-22.html#unique-entry-id-22Decades ago the women of Barra used to wail as the remains of one who died off the island came home to their final rest. That habit may have dropped by the wayside now, but I am sure the people who will line the road from Castlebay to Vatersay will respectfully see this young woman who had a lifetime stretching out before her on her last journey.
My pagan ancestors believed that on death the good went to Tir nan Og, the land of youth. How apt that title is now!
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as we headed west to FA and when we got there it was packed with tourists all keen to take a boat out in search of that most elusive of beasts. Weather was lovely and dry, and helped by a great slice of cake!


Sadly for us the beast was missing, but Ian and I are sure we have narrowed down her nest to a couple of favourable sites on the east bank of the loch.

We carried on driving up towards Inverness and took the opportunity for a gratuitous Nessie photo on the way

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Sunday saw us heading to Queen's View in brilliant sunshine and a tour round the edge of Loch Tummell and to Castle Menzies, (clickable below) which is nothing as lovely as Blair Castle but still good in a way.




We drove to the top of the hill at the back of the house to see the solar array and Jo found the resevoir, I really should explore my locality a bit better!
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Had a walk in the garden and sat on the bank with Vincent in tow, taking funny pictures. This image is clickable of course! Prepare for ooh and ahh!
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I think this is excessive! Clickable image.
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Adam brought up an Amazon Firestick last weekend and spent happy hours setting it up for us and then gorging on the BBC "Line of Fire" Season One which was great. Cannot wait to start S2 and more at some point this week. We are busy looking for shared online calendars but I think I can share mine with Anthony from my Mac, so will have to look into that thoroughly this weekend.
Alfie got a spring coat, on the morning that the snows returned so has been freezing all week, going from this



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Saturday afternoon was our Foundation Annual Meeting which went very well and we have some great ideas suggested by Anthony for the next six months. Then we headed to MaKays for the Chelsea-Spurs game before a lovely dinner in The Old Mill and then home. We allowed Vincent and Alfie to sit with us in the Drawing Room where the fire was on full blast and flames up the chimney. A great night out again! I was still exhausted from Friday night so I had a relatively early bed at 1am. I have no idea when the rest made it, but there were some very late awake, sore headed people on Sunday morning!]]>2017 Diary2017-04-19T17:57:20+01:00http://www.george-maclean.com/styled-4/styled-3/files/1a597bd5d5e92e67c8660ae57b232310-13.html#unique-entry-id-13http://www.george-maclean.com/styled-4/styled-3/files/1a597bd5d5e92e67c8660ae57b232310-13.html#unique-entry-id-13






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And then to Blair Atholl for a drink and some food:



Image is clickable of course

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The children had a great time here and were very sad to leave.
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]]>2017 Diary2017-03-19T08:49:53+00:00http://www.george-maclean.com/styled-4/styled-3/files/3ad85c53abcec89cf4d8ba763c07bedc-9.html#unique-entry-id-9http://www.george-maclean.com/styled-4/styled-3/files/3ad85c53abcec89cf4d8ba763c07bedc-9.html#unique-entry-id-9At last I have got off my backside and arranged some clearing out work to be done on the BarraHouse. A simple question posed on a closed FB group for IoB and several suggestions and recommendations later I have arranged for the house to be cleared out. Very nice guy will be doing that this week. His wife was so polite on her Messenger conversation but at all times I was waiting for the traditional "who are you and your connections with Barra?" question, which came eventually. Turns out she knows me and mine quite well and my Aunty Penny was her boss on a YTS scheme decades ago. She remembers Anthony and I dancing at Siobhan and David's wedding in Castlebay Hall. We were not that bad, surely?
Talya and Joe arriving Saturday for a quick visit which was yet another opportunity for me to show off my vegan cookery skills - all successful I may add! Thursday evening for about 20 minutes we had the experience of a snap blizzard, but it did not last thankfully. Anthony had returned from GMC Tomar having worked very hard all weekend. Today being Sunday means a range of trips to the recycling centre with bits and pieces and just taking it easssssssssy.]]>2017 Diary2017-03-12T09:44:47+00:00http://www.george-maclean.com/styled-4/styled-3/files/5b61dbc9a9804976a381a2bb2e22b73d-8.html#unique-entry-id-8http://www.george-maclean.com/styled-4/styled-3/files/5b61dbc9a9804976a381a2bb2e22b73d-8.html#unique-entry-id-8
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Anthony went off to Portugal on Wednesday for the six monthly OSMTH meeting in Tomar. I could not go this time as I was lecturing at the LSE which went very well and I had more Gann questions this year than at any time in the 20 years of doing this course! I hope they all pass their exams in April. I travelled on the Sleeper train as usual and for back to take Pam off to Dundee where she is dog and cat sitting for Talya for a few days. Meantime I aimed to be up early on Saturday to go to Dunkeld to see an exhibition and take the chequebook. Sadly by the time I got there all the Bruernish images had been bought. A year ago I thought about buying one, but now they are completely overpriced with an additional digit at the front of them. So I treated myself to an our in the kitchen shop in Dunkeld indeed and got change out of a one-er. Much better use of money I think! The dogs are missing all the commotion in the house so yesterday we had a "let's lick George' half an hour, which was great fun. I am glad I never got a dog in London as it is better having one here when I have the space and the time to spend with them. Both are loving running about the garden all day but when I am ready to play with them they are exhausted! Although I have put these Doggy-lick images already on FB, you can click below for a memory.
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But today it is there in abundance. Dogs are loving it but the snow shower stopped at 0730 long before Anthony and Pam got up, and it has started to melt. I love the sound of snow melting out here in the silence, as it sounds so LOUD.

Images of the garden in this surprise snow are viewable once you click this image

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Anthony is off to Portugal midweek for five days or events and I am down in London for my LSE Lecture on WD Gann on Wednesday. I have been lecturing on Gann now for 20 years, across two different universities, a bit of a milestone indeed! I have tied this in with a trip to work to make my visit for March as brief as possible. It is not that I don't like London (how could you?) but I prefer the calm of the countryside up here in the Crankies.

So far I have had only one birthday card, but the postman has not made his Saturday delivery so I expect a sackload today and on Monday my actual birthday. Last night at midnight I got a SMS from Wee Cath telling me she is out for a coffee with one of my undergraduate pals, Angela Downie, who I have not seen in 30 years. It is very strange being able to write "30 years" as I still feel as if I am in my 20s, but the haircolour and creaking bones and dodgy kidneys tell a different story! It is doubly strange because only this week I was thinking about my old Uni pals, Angela being one of them…]]>2017 Diary2017-03-03T08:33:49+00:00http://www.george-maclean.com/styled-4/styled-3/files/b39e8c9326db0862d1728f6da48a5f10-5.html#unique-entry-id-5http://www.george-maclean.com/styled-4/styled-3/files/b39e8c9326db0862d1728f6da48a5f10-5.html#unique-entry-id-52017 Diary2017-03-01T15:51:46+00:00http://www.george-maclean.com/styled-4/styled-3/files/fba55d4ec24dd992ab56e062a5bc5032-2.html#unique-entry-id-2http://www.george-maclean.com/styled-4/styled-3/files/fba55d4ec24dd992ab56e062a5bc5032-2.html#unique-entry-id-2
Our charitable foundation, The Cuthbert-MacLean Foundation SCIO has been making some springtime donations which we are really pleased with, and they are being well used indeed. I am glad we started this out as we seem to have made some changes to groups and lives across the country.

I am still getting used to this new format of writing, so with some practice here are images of the garden taken this week… Feel free to click!
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Last weekend we were down in Birmingham, having left the house at 04:20 to catch the plane from Edinburgh. It was a long day but very enjoyable and we were home at 22:30 and exhausted!

Gratuitious image of Vincent below:
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