A Very Nice Weekend

Nothing out of the ordinary, just pottering about doing the usual sort of things but the weather had cheered up and we enjoyed ourselves. 

I'd decided to take off my uber-critical hat and start going back to Saturday Slaughters until we get moved so I'd found out what the book for this month was and managed to read it in two days. That's not me being a super speedy reader, it was an easy read. 

We decided to go to Celina Rupp's for lunch ( officially it's the Barrier View Cafe, because, surprise surprise you can see the first Churchill barrier from the windows, but we always call it Celina Rupp's because it's part of Celina's jewellery place.) Voila

Not the most exciting, but we didn't have to make it ourselves or put the dishes in the dishwasher and it made a change. We were going to have coffee and cake afterwards but decided against because we didn't have a huge amount of time and there wasn't much that caught our eye in the cake line.We had a brief bimble around her jewellery gallery on the way out and saw a rather nice new design....

Then it was on into town, and the library for me and the supermarket for the OH via the charity shop which we give our stuff to these days. It's  one where you can usually park right outside and where they greet you with a smile and a 'thank you so much' rather than a barked and oft repeated hope that 'there aren't any electrical goods in there' despite you repeatedly assuring them that there aren't. And that was after a previous visit when we were ignored until I stage whispered to the OH 'this is rather rude' at which point the person on duty managed to drag his eyes from whatever it was he had previously found so engrossing and acknowledge our existence. When I recounted the electrical goods interrogation here previously I don't think I said, but it was the Kirkwall Salvation Army Shop. A place which, for understandable reasons, we no longer trouble with our presence - or our donations. 

Saturday Slaughters was fine and I managed to keep my uber critical hat off, although I was a bit irritated when I did point out a small inconsistency in what was otherwise a well constructed plot and an American lady opposite me drawled with a supercilious curl of her lip that  'this was fiction'. Well yes, but if that's your answer to everything why bother discussing a book at all? I will mention the book in my reading  round up which is still up-coming, I promise. 

After SS we took ourselves off to The Daily Scoop, to make up for there not being  much choice of cake at Celina's. There wasn't much choice at the Daily Scoop either unless you like to choose between about 10 varieties of tray bake, but I'm trying to keep my chocolate consumption down to a minimum just now so I had a Danish Slice which was a cinnamon bun by another name but with rather more icing than any Scandinavian would think appropriate. The OH had an ice cream sundae and I forgot to take photos. There again, when did taking photos of food become a thing? Maybe we'll do it again after the next SS meeting in a months time. If we're here and not house hunting in the Central Belt at the time.  The Daily Scoop's ice creams are not a patch on those you get at Geris Ice Cream parlour but the advantage the DS has over Geri is that it's open all year. 

On Sunday the weather was really nice and we went for a walk in just sweaters and no coats. We did one of our favourite walks from when lockdown was easing which is at Burwick, waaay down south , in Orkney terms.  We thought we might see seals as Burwick is generally good for that, but we didn't.  We did however see lots of gulls bobbing about, some beautiful cloud formations and plenty of sunshine.