On Saturday we came to
Inverness. Yes we do look a bit like seagulls. We needed to open an account with
Travis Perkins. I've always wanted a
John Lewis card and once I had an
M&S card but cut it up for fear of temptation. Travis Perkins doesn't have quite the same ring to it but we had our own personal shopper who showed us round and they do a great range in aggregates and wall insulation and they sell bags that hold a ton - that's a lot of shopping, and it's nice knowing that if I'm having an off day I can just ring up, order a bag of cement and have it put on the account. Next we went to
City Plumbing to look at our plumbing needs - you'd think choosing taps would be simple!! And a
loo is, after all, just a loo, but it all depends on whether you want it wall hung, high level, low level, back to the wall, close-coupled, half flush, full flush, siphon jet, reverse-trap flush and at about that point we had to leave as I
really needed the loo so we went to
Pizza Express for lunch, and had a bowl of olives and some garlic bread and pasta and drank red wine and felt very cosmopolitan! And their loos were very nice, but I didn't like to take a picture in case I was asked to leave.
We went to have a look at the newly refurbished and recently reopened
Eden Court Theatre 
This is a snake (I think) in the garden of Eden
The roof of the theatre is made up of triangle shapes. It reminded me slightly of the
Barbican Centre in London, though I don't know why as I don't remember the Barbican Centre being triangular. But it has a light and spacious feel to it with a good use of natural materials.
And something to look at on each level.
I liked this. It looks as if it's been drawn on a sheet of braille. Hopefully by clicking the mouse on the picture it will enlarge, and make it clearer.
Maybe the braille describes the portrait, but behind the glass, it wouldn't be much help to the person who couldn't see.
And - No, before you ask, I'm not looking in the mirror, but I think she's got a great face.
Here I am though. These are the nice clean sinks in the ladies' loos in the Eden Court theatre. And nobody around to escort me from the building. I think if we had these in our new house we'd make a mess, we need something bigger, more trough like. We won't need five of them though or the bathroom may end up looking like a cow byre.
A new digger!
This is the tractor carrying the cement and cement mixer to be used when building the retaining wall.
I wanted to say this is the tractor with its easy to remove attachments, but I think these go with the digger, they've just got muddled up as attachments do
These are thermal sheets that will go down with the foundations. The breeze blocks (aptly named) have been placed on top to stop them blowing away.
Our very own bottle bank! When the site was being cleared, the digger threw up an array of old bottles, pipes, fencing and shoes. To be dealt with at a later date.
Meanwhile in the back garden, it looks as if there has been a landslide.
The stream which has been diverted away from the center of the land to a cutting at the edge
senses its freedom and seeks out the quickest route from top to bottom
It's now horribly wet and muddy on the slope . When we first came here the land was a beautiful green and pleasant place. It hasn't taken long to wreck it! But on a positive note the house is due to be delivered on the 13th March - is that a Friday I wonder? 
The River Ness 
