Postcard from the Edge

 Our grandsons arrived on Tuesday evening for a week's stay. 

This gives me little opportunity to blog, since we're either busy doing stuff, or my laptop is commandeered by Young People who Need a Screen. 

Yesterday we went to Stirling Castle. It was very hot.  Also as we went round we coincided with a group of 4 young children (all, from the look of them under the age of seven) who were the most badly behaved kids  I've ever encountered.  And shame on their parents who looked complacently on while their offspring shrieked, yelled, swore and tried to destroy things. After the castle, we went out for  a meal which was both expensive and horrible.  

Today we went to the cinema at the behest of grandson No 2 who was keen to see a film called Legend of the Ochi. He enjoyed it which was one consolation for having to go and see it. The other was that my brother-in-law had given me a cinema voucher for my birthday so the amount of real money spent on seeing it  was negligible. If you were to ask me whether you should go and see it, my answer would be if you have an alternative, up to and including having a tooth out without anaesthetic, go for the alternative. I may vent about this in greater detail at a later date. Or I may not. 

I think it would be true to say that I am quite tense just now although making valiant efforts not to show it. Some efforts, despite the valiancy ( is that a word - probably not, but I'm sure it's understandable for all that ) are unsuccessful. It is hard, when you have been told that your visitors-to-be 'love snacks' to discover that everything you bought as snacks they turn up their noses at. Also I don't appreciate having a teenage visitor come and tell me that 'it was teatime half an hour ago'. The way I see it unless it's your house, or you've offered to make the tea yourself, tea time is when I say it is. It's not like I was making them wait until midnight. 

Tomorrow we are off to the Scottish Deer Centre, which has deer, lynx, wildcats, otters and all sorts of other wonderful things and I think it should be fun - although not as much fun as it would have been if they still had wolves. 

No idea when I'll be back here but anyone wanting to send 'thoughts and prayers hun' is very welcome to try.