Oh, thank goodness!
We've a Dennys not far from us, but don't go in often as the Covid rate here is still unacceptable and the place is usually packed. But we did go by a few times when it wasn't busy, so we went in. Same Dennys as on the West Coast. Tasty, but the menu is a bit limited due to supply chain snafus. And it bears no resemblance to that travesty foisted on an unsuspecting Glasgow.
I still miss Scotland. We have a lovely flat here, and a good car, and the daughter has a suitable-while-looking-for-something-better part-time job. I have just gotten a second (and much larger) plot in the community garden where I spend a lot of my evenings. The new space was basically an abandoned one nobody wanted. Soil has a hell of a crust on it, but once that's broken it drains fast. (VERY different from our perpetually-damp other space.) I had the soil tested and someone had gone nuts with fertilizer, it seems. The pH is (artificially) above 7.0. It's also very clay-ish. But all that can be fixed with time and the right components. (I may need to buy a small peat moss farm!) It was also covered in weeds - in the spots where anything would grow at all - so I've spent most of my time just forking it all over and getting the weeds out. The weeds are the start of a rather epic compost pile. We now have tomatoes and peppers planted out, and the daughter's corn is starting to come up. There's enough room there for pumpkins to ramble, so those will be going out next week. So, overall, I get to play in the dirt and it's no more expensive here (much less so for some things) than in Scotland, but I really still do miss living there. Especially the climate - no really brutal winters or scorching summers. And the cheap food prices/delivery at Tesco. And not needing sunglasses. Oh, well .... I guess Scotland'll just be another fond memory, though. Except for the Denny's.
