Nina's Blog - Thursday 12th February 2026

@ninalanyon Lovely scenery but it looks bleak, cold and very inhospitable.

What's that structure on the left in the second photo? The main section looks like a slipway but with no boat-house at its head, and I can't see what the smaller section does.

@ArishMell You mean this?

It's a small floating dock with pontoons for mooring small boats, small cabin cruisers, etc. So you had the right general idea.

The actual air temperature was quite reasonable, about -8 C I think but there was a fairly stiff northerly breeze giving a 'feels like' temperature probably more like -16 C and my hands became unpleasantly cold just in the minute or so that it took to take those pictures. The rest of me was cosy inside that coat which is windproof and lined with a sort of dense short pile fake fur.

@ninalanyon That's it! Thankyou!

@ninalanyon love plaid

@JSul3 Me too, but for me it's a fairly recent thing. I don't know why but over the last few years I've bought half a dozen tartan skirts. But in my former incarnation as a man I never had anything tartan at all.

@ninalanyon My favorite musical play is Forever Plaid.