Andrew, Sprog and I set out early this morning, we drove to Whithorn Bay, a lovely wild and windy place with the ancient St. Ninian's Chapel ruins at the top of a hill by the sea. We parked up by the harbour pub, then battled up the steep hill in the wind to the ruins and explored. Sproggy was all excited and leapt out and in the open windows, with a silly grin on his face. We wandered around the coast, I had to call Sprog back as he almost hurtled himself over a precipice.  He has glaucoma in both eyes now and obviously hadn't noticed the edge of the cliff, he frightened me witless! There is a cairn here, of stones from the beach with names and messages written on them, they appear to be peoples wishes so we add ours to it. We returned to the harbour and dropped Sprog back to the car then went into the pub for a welcome coffee, it's freezing outside! The bar is open but the lounge is a mess, apparently there was a dreadful storm a few days ago and the sandbags didn't hold so the pub was flooded. The whole place is being refurbished, the landlord is used to this and smiles as he tells us all about it.

We head to Wigtown next, this small town is renowned for having the most bookshops in Britain - over 40 in all. We explored awhile then the rain set in in earnest, we headed for a pub as the car was too far away. The landlord was very chatty and told us that the ladies of the town now complain that there are books everywhere but the have to travel 68 miles to buy a pair of knickers!!

We headed back, between heavy showers and stopped a mile or so from Monreith, where we has seen some old stones and whole carpets of snowdrops on our way out this morning, not an exaggeration I tell Andrew he needs to take photo's as I've never seen that amount of snowdrops anywhere ever!! We parked up and walked through 4 extremely wet marshy fields, our feet sinking at every step to the standing stones at the top of the hill. We read later that they are fertility stones, the sunset is wonderful over the sea viewed from here. We hurry back through the marsh, don't want to be caught here in the dark incase we get stuck! We see Bernie and Nick en route to the car, apparently they went on a petrol hunt, we stopped at the local shop for potatoes and oil to make chips to eat with leftover curry.

Jennifer, Bernie and Nick have been to the Monreith Arms for lunch after a walk. Gavin and Rick have played Risk and computers all day. Gavin tells us that he has been e mailed about a job he wants - he got it, so we all congratulate him. We all eat leftover curry tonight, no one wants to drive or cook so curry and chips is all that's on the menu. We relax and read and drink wine in front of the fire Andrew lit again this evening. The others settle down to play soldiers again.

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