'Allo, aloe

Watering the plants this morning and noticed the Aloe vera is about to do another of its mad flower things.
Then went off to assess a strange cremation from Inverurie, enduring S's inane chatter and then having a meeting with a very lugubrious T. Hmmmm, we'll see what comes of it.
After a particularly delicious tea, I got a phone call from a second cousin (once removed) whom I had found an address for. We spent half an hour trying to tease out the circuitous route by which we are related: his maternal gran and my maternal great gran were sisters. I think.