Friday, September 11, 2009

Ups and Downs; Swings and Roundabouts

Last day of my birthday holidays and I sit here on the computer, project managing the laundry in the machine and on the line and moving dirty dishes down my strategic priorities list to somewhere after "go for a bike ride" and "give Sinéad a cuddle".

Two weeks of friends visiting and visiting friends, rain, sun, sunny rain, driving rain, and all variety of swings and roundabouts and I'm knackered and feeling (almost) like it's about time to get back to work.

Megan arrived on a Monday (exactly one day after I went to pick her up at the airport) and in the subsequent ten days we managed to visit York, Haworth, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Isles of Mull and Iona, Bradford, Leeds, and an unscheduled swing through Lockerbie when the car broke down just outside of Gretna. By the end, it very much felt like, "If it's Tuesday, it must be Staffa" (except, of course, the day we scheduled Staffa was too stormy and the ferry was cancelled).

All the adventures culminated in a cream tea at Harvey Nics, on the terrace, under the blazing sun, overlooking the rooftops and unemployed shoppers of Leeds on Wednesday. I hope that while all the culture and the Culture of the north of England and Scotland were exciting enough to warrant Meg's trip across the ocean, what she takes home with her is that feeling of utter contentment of putting one's face to the sun and one's feet up next to a big bag of slab chocolate recently purchased from Hotel Chocolat.

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We learned about "night out" options in Lockerbie

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Jealous! ;-) Sounds like a lovely time. Say, do you think you and Sinead would be up for any visitors anytime from say, mid-May to mid-June (for like, a a few days to a week)? It sounds like you need some time to recuperate but we're talking months and months away.

~Lisa

of the stalking kind