Thursday 17/08/06

Down for breakfast at 8.30, earlier than usual of late. The cruiseliner Kristina Regina enters port at 8.45. She has arrived from Lerwick on a cruise which started in the Finnish capital Helsinki and will end at Dublin on Saturday, after a call at Tobermory tomorrow, Friday. Help mrs B rip out lino from her kitchen, after lugging the fridge and other bits and pieces out. Join the elderly couple for breakfast, who are off to Point and Callanish today. The joiner arrives at 10.15 to lay the new tiling in the kitchen. They go in at a rate of knots. The day is very nice, with the sun joining us for a change. By 4.30 I hop off to the town, with the sun warm in my face. A number of Finns are ambling down Newton Street. Their cruiseliner leaves at 5pm sharp. The regional papers are full of stories about alleged mismanagement in the Comhairle, Western Isles Council. On return from the shop, I help mrs B put the fridge &c back. It looks vastly different. In the evening it turns foggy, as I go out for an walk with mrs B.