Afternoon at Scone Palace

Spent the afternoon at the annual “Pot Fest” at Scone Palace, just north of Perth.
 
Potters had come from all over the UK and some from Europe too. Yes, we succumbed and bought a pot from Pat Armstrong, a potter from Lincolnshire. After twenty years working as a secretary she decided there was more to life than earning money to buy clothes to go to work in. So she re-trained as a potter. And never regretted it for a moment.
 
Met up with an old friend whose husband works in a hospital lab. He says the testing of corvid is going up from 400 a day to 700 a day in anticipation of the tsunami of cases, flu and corvid, coming down the line.

That scenario seemed like a dystopian nightmare this Sunday afternoon in the tranquil open-air setting of Scone Palace where in times past the kings of Scotland were crowned on the Stone of Destiny (see extra) . This is a replica for the original now resides in the British museum.
 
And today children chased the resident peacocks (see extra) with the white peacock (see extra) being a particular attraction.