One of the challenges of living in Scotland is not understanding. Not understanding what is said, and what is meant. I’ve much more empathy for anyone moving to another country who truly doesn’t speak the same language.
In my defense, when you move to a very small town, people assume you know the ‘ins and outs’ of town life. ‘People’ would be wrong.
The Portsoy Traditional Boat festival is held every year and is a very big deal. I have never been.
I don’t know what Portsoy 75 is. I had no idea why they would want ‘bottles’. What in the world were they going to do with them? We were busy getting ready for our trip to America and THE wedding, so I didn’t pay it too much attention.
Until they asked again.
Well, we had some bottles and we had some time, so we took them around and dropped them off.
The next day we got this….
Ohhhhh…..
Now I understand.
Yep, that’s me…
I imagine with the amount of things I don’t understand, I will keep them laughing in Portsoy, Scotland for quite some time.
Humbled and blessed.
Ellen, Do you remember a summer long ago at Church Family Camp when I talked up the Perseid Meteor Shower and convinced you to meet me on the huge lawn at 2AM or some other godforsaken hour of the night? I set my alarm and dutifully got up and dressed and walked to the lawn. You were there too. But there was too much fog and cloud cover to even see the buildings across the lawn! We disappointedly stumbled back to bed. I always think of that memory when the Perseid Meteor Shower comes around in Aug. Are you going to try to see it from your new home? I bet you have a good view with very little light pollution.
I will never forget that night. Giggling about getting up and walking around to see not a single Meteor. I’m hoping we can. I’m not sure, as though we don’t have light pollution, we do still have very little night time darkness.
If I DO, you know you’ll be hearing about it!
much love,
e
Oh my, I laughed out loud reading this. You just made my evening and I am loving your posts on adapting to Portsoy!
Thank you so much! It is pretty funny, even my British friend said she didn’t understand.
Glad to have you on the journey.
This is hilarious!
It was too funny not to share.
hugs to all
xx
🤣🤣🤣always a challenge when it’s the same language, but not! ❣️
Right?!
xx
e.