Not a dull moment - virus life continues

We're not allowed to go into other people's houses, apart from for child care purposes. We always have the Edinburgh grandchildren on Friday afternoons, when there's no school, together with SIL 1, but last Friday we had the children only - which we reckoned was within the rules. 

They played together sometimes and also did their own things. 

They stayed the night and it was lovely. Biggest Granddaughter went home on Saturday afternoon but Big Grandson decided that he would stay on - "a double sleepover, Granny!"

He, a great fan of public transport, has been deprived of riding on it for months now, so we went on a tram ride after Mr L departed to take Biggest Granddaughter home. We went out to the airport, back into town and then back again to near our house. He found it really interesting and I find him really interesting, so we were both happy. The tram wasn't busy and everyone wore masks; it felt fairly safe. 

It's been beautiful weather recently for walking, 

with berries

and autumn colour - during these last few days when our landscapers would have been here if the road hadn't been dug up (sigh). 

Optimistically, I took a "before" photo of the ex-hedge yesterday. 

Then it became quite wet and I thought: THEY'RE NOT GOING TO COME! 

Today was supposed to be - and indeed turned out to be - a day of sunshine and showers and thankfully they did come. They took down the fence between us and our neighbours, drilled out the huge lumps of concrete that had been holding the fence posts up and then went away with the old fence and the concrete. (Our neighbour, already deaved (Scottish word for wearied and annoyed) by the massive renovations in the house opposite, was not thrilled.) They're back tomorrow with a digger, which will be the exciting bit and also the bit that Big Grandson wants us to film, which is a pity since we're going up to visit Son and his family. We can't go inside his house, so it'll be a case of playparking, I think. I hope it doesn't rain. 

Daughter 2 sent these photos of Littlest Granddaughter doing yoga. So cute! (I don't think I could do this... .)

I might just about manage this, though I think my stomach might get in the way.

I've been spending lots of time quilting my friend's quilt and now my fingers are quite sore. I can never wait to see the finished effect! Another week or so should see it finished. No one would believe how much time it takes (me) to make a quilt - and mine are relatively simple, with what seems to be called big stitch quilting. But there are a lot of these stitches. I began at the end of July and have spent hours of many days making it (though not in the couple of weeks in August when Daughter 2 and Littlest Granddaughter were here). It's fun, though, and I've come to almost like these very bright fabrics, which I would never in a million years have thought of putting together but which sort of work in a random sort of way.