Evee

Hi, I haven't got the hang of saving these blogs, and retrieving them after I navigate away from them. For example, I started a blog, then wanted to check something out on another webpage. I got the info I wanted and then tried to come back to what I'd already written and hey! Where d'it go? I've tried everything to find it but here I am having to start all over again! I won't say what I am really thinking!

Anyway back to the blog, which is now out of date as the event I was writing about was yesterday!!! Yesterday, now, was the centenary of the birth of a Scottish legend, Fifer, button accordian player extrordinaire and composer of many Scottish dance tunes, the most famous probably being his Bluebell Polka. Every Scottish country dancer will have danced to a tune of Jimmy Shand's at some stage. His appearances on TV are legendary, but he played far more off screen for dances all over the country, and became a much loved character all over the world - Jimmy Shand and his band must have inspired many a band in their day, and probably do so to this day.

Tomorrow night I may be going to a dance myself, depending on how Vina feels! She's the one who is the dancer! She belongs to the Peebles dancers though of course being ill has prevented her from dancing from quite a while. Just the other day though she said she would like to go to this big dance just to be there and watch everyone dancing, and would I like to go with her? I used to dance too years ago before the brain op in 1977, but because there's a lot of twirling and birling, and fast steps I can't keep up - and my balance isn't good enough these days to cope. However if Vina feels able to go - and isn't it great that she feels she might be - I will go with her and the pair of us will sit in a corner and watch the goings on - me with my camera of course! So maybe I'll get some good pics to make into another scrapbook layout! We're not there yet though. Vina could still feel she's not fit enough. We are all taking things day by day, but this last week she has been feeling better than she has for ages. It's still a while till she can have the scan that will tell whether her chemo and radiotherapy has done what it was hoped it would, but for now, every day she feels better is something to celebrate.

Well, I think I am going to leave things there for now as it has taken far longer than I anticipated to get this up and running.

Talk to you all again soon.

Take care!