Sunday 03/09/06

Quite a variable day, starting with frequent heavy showers. These cease after lunchtime. Spend some time drawing up a shortlist of pictures I would like to submit to the BBC Countryfile Photographic Competition, which closes on Friday 8th. A bit of a job, as I have 4,000+ pictures to go through. Theme is The Weather, and that is the general theme of my piccies this year. Tomorrow, I'm going to the photographer's to print them off. It's my turn to cook supper tonight, and it's Take a Leek (see Recipe Book). Young Molly Campbell aka Misbah Rana was not kidnapped after all, she went quite willingly. That family is a total mess. Mum married Dad when she was 16, had 4 kids by him, converted to Islam - then decided she didn't like it, divorced him and told the kids that Islam is no good. Bad idea. Kids had their own ideas, two went to Pakistan with Dad, one is in central Scotland and the youngest, Molly, was carted all over the west of Scotland. She has now declared she is proud to be a Moslem, and wants to be a good Scottish Moslem. The sad news comes through that the 14-man crew of an RAF Nimrod reconnaissance aircraft were killed when the plane crashed in Afghanistan. They were based at RAF Kinloss, just east of Inverness, and their families are still there. A breezy afternoon follows. The German couple return from thei rlast trip in Lewis, to Ness at 8.30.