Con[trail] Free

And no sign of any ash either in the skies over Central Scotland either.

Been sitting out here in the garden most of the day under gorgeous blue skies and because of the grounding of all UK air flights there's been none of the usual criss-crossing contrails above either. No flights of any description have gone over in fact, apart from a single helicopter a couple of hours ago.

I tried putting together a 360 degree shot of this but that was proving far too tricky, so this is a stitch of 16 images showing the area to the North of us across the Ochil Hills.

Having arrived back yesterday Samantha and Heather are mighty glad there were no delays with their flights; it must be a nightmare for anybody trying to get away or even to get into the countries affected just now, and it looks like it's not going to change now until at least tomorrow morning.