Mother's Day - Cairngorms style
If you live beside the Cairngorm mountains, you probably do covet a Mother's Day gift of...climbing thingies. Perhaps a climber among my readers can tell me exactly what they are.
Today is Mother's Day in the UK, and this was the seasonal decor in the Mountain Cafe in Aviemore yesterday. The cafe was packed - people queuing up on the stairs to get in - so my photo-framing opportunities were limited. Still, I brazened it out, to the sound of husbandly eye-rolling. (For daughterly eye-rolling, see St Andrews jewels)
Happy Mother's Day! I think those things are for putting rope through, but I'm not a technical climber. Any mountains I climb have a trail to the top.
ReplyDeleteHappy Mother's Day! We don't have it until May in Canada!
ReplyDeleteCarabiners (the D-shaped spring-loaded clips), pitons (the rusty old spiky things that get hammered into cracks or drilled holes on "fixed routes" i.e. routes with hardware that stays in place after the climbers depart) and there look to be a couple of "stoppers" or "chockblocks," the chunks of metal on webbing slings that are inserted into cracks using friction and torque to stay put.
ReplyDeleteNo kid eye rolling on Mom's day allowed!!!
ReplyDeleteHappy Mother's day to you. Ours isn't until May but today we changed to daylight savings time and lost 1 hour.
ReplyDeleteYou celebrate mother's day earlier than us. I hope you had a good mother's day. My crinkled edge cactus was identified by a blogger friend as a Thanksgiving cactus. He said the smooth edge one's were Christmas cactus. I would ship a slip but I don't know what kind of shape it would be by the time it got there. I bought it at a building center over here. Thanks for keeping track of my posts. Hey spring is coming!!!
ReplyDeleteTell husband and daughter the whole wide world of Blogdom is waiting on YOUR picture!! Good for you in going after it!! Well DONE!
ReplyDeleteAnd a good Mother's Day I hope it was.
ReplyDeleteOh! How very nice.
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Hi Linda and Happy Mother's Day to you! That is quite the banner, celebrating the day. Complete with mountain climbing equipment I'd say! Cheers, Jenni
ReplyDeleteHappy Mother's Day to you! :)
ReplyDeleteHappy Mother`s Day to you Linda!
ReplyDeleteIt will come in May here :)
ReplyDeleteWell, all I can say is that the cards were very pretty and a Happy Mother's Day to you, if it isn't too late.
Since I'm not at this time, nor have I ever been a climber (being afraid of heights) everything I've read that your commenters made here is like Greek to me, and trust me, I don't speak Greek either.
I guess the only real thing I can comment on is that it was interesting to hear what you had to say about Cadillac's. Actually the one I pictured is an SUV and it really has a huge cargo space. I know that European cars are traditionally a lot smaller. As for our gas in the Cadillac, we are very fortunate that it takes regular instead of super gas so it is a lot cheaper, as regular is the cheapest gas of all. Still it is still pretty expensive here in California because we have a large sales tax that is added in. (I probably should have e-mailed you this last part).
I hope you had a fabulous Mother's Day, Linda!
ReplyDeleteThis is one of my favourite cafes in the Highlands. Yes, I too have taken photos of the thingmies hanging from the ceiling!
ReplyDeleteThank you for all the comments, and a special thank you to Miranda for her climbing expertise!
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