Better late than never

This afternoon I completed an almost four year old  plan to commemorate , even if slightly tongue in cheek, the fact that my good friend and former MSP colleague Bruce Crawford raised the flag  at Feorlean in July 2021.

I had always wanted to put a flagpole on a little rise above the house, but didnt do anything about it until I retired.   The I needed two shots at getting the pole - the first one got lost by the carrier , quite an achievement as it was 5 metres long.

Bruce and Jacqueline were over in Kames for a couple of nights, and they came to visit just at the time it was erected, so I asked him to do the honours.   MSPs do get asked to open things, so he was well used to that type of invitation though I don't think he (or I) had ever performed the deed for a flagpole.

It was only right to add a plaque,  given that was always part of such ceremonies.  I think I have blipped one or two of them ,  though not the opening of the Loch Lomond National Park Centre in Balloch  when I was Environment Minister, which featured  an inscribed piece of stone  so heavy it couldn't be mounted on a wall.  It is  apparently still  in a cupboard.

So after Bruce had  done the deed  I  got hold of a wee metal plaque, but then I found there was nothing to which I could attach it.   That is until yesterday when I noticed two blocks of wood  nearby which I suddenly thought might sit very well at the base of the pole. 

They do, so today  I screwed the plaque into place and the long unfinished job is now done.

Of course  I had  to include a bit of the flagpole in the Blip.