Saturday 14th May
Woke up to a sunny day but cold wind. Had a call from Glenn from our house - thank you Glenn, we turned 45 today!
David and Margaret Reed collected us. Margaret is the grandaughter of Archibald Stewart brother of Jock Stewart. They took us up to the New Monkland cemetry to view a Stewart grave in which amongst others are interred the remains of
Archibald Stewart. We had a drive around Airdrie looking at the old and new before arriving at Jean & Harry Hunter's home. Jean is the daughter of Bella Stewart who married Joe Deas. Bella was a sister of Jock Stewart. Jean & Harry have been married 62 years. Much chatter and photos taken and looked at, plus a lovely tea, before we moved on.
Nancy and Ronnie McKinnon and Jean Kelty (Nancy's twin) were waiting for us. Nancy and Jean are Margaret's elder sisters. More chatter laughs and a wee drop of sherry/wine and more photos looked at and taken. We have always known how canny the Scots are, but learnt from David a Yorkshireman, that in fact it was those from Yorkshire who taught the Scots to be "tighter than tight as"!! cont....