ninety eight of anything is a lot

Our first trip North this year to Monymusk, to visit Mary's mum who had her 98th birthday on 11-04-26. To those who are thinking that's amazing, bear in mind Margaret's own opinion is that you'd be better off getting out in your eighties and avoiding your 90s entirely. So celebrations were slightly muted, but she enjoyed the clan gathering. "Best birthday ever", and visiting offsprings, making a fun change from the day-to-day. She is not inclined to have her photo taken so I just took a couple of covert shots through the sun-room windows from a distance. And they are not particularly flattering.Margaret at 98The drive up the road was a bit worse than usual. Major road works on the Kingsway round Dundee. They seemed to be very poorly flagged up and Mary and I were so busy gassing away we didn't notice the diversion signs until we were off the A90 and heading on crappy roads into the centre of Dundee. We turned the sat-nav on but that was only a partial rescue as we nosed-to-tailed…