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Sunday Lunch

Yesterday started well, we went to church and I was given a beautiful bouquet of flowers that had been on display plus someone very kindly had bought me a Canada book from a charity shop. Afterwards we had been invited out for lunch to celebrate a Golden Wedding Anniversary. (50 years!!!) They are a lovely couple and we see quite a lot of them.
The meal was lovely, champers to start and then melon & sorbet followed by chicken with new potatoes and a good selection of veg cooked to perfection with a triumph of a chocolate mousse to finish.
Our nieces enjoyed huge ice cream sundaes. Then we sampled cake and listened to amusing speeches. It was a very nice afternoon. Thank you and congratulations B&F!

This weekend

Friday afternoon and Saturday we were painting the hall, stairs and landing at the rental house - what a joy that was! I also cleaned a lot and Mike painted a window. Then we cut down a really jaggy bush in the garden and I cut back the weeping willow tree which had just grown like crazy. As a reward (and to keep my promise to Mary!) we treated ourselves to fish and chips on Saturday night. They are from our favourite place - an award winning take away - we limit ourselves to just going on a rare occasion. Anyway, they were totally yummy, we ate them in the garden with some help from the neighbour's cat who sat underneath the table in the shade.
We did go for a walk around 10pm and I did a very, very short run just to get my heartbeat up!

Visit to Sunny Shropshire

So we had a flying visit last weekend to Shropshire to stay over night with our friends. Arrived early Saturday evening - had delicious chicken casserole on Saturday night, went to church with them, visited the plant centre in Roden, had beef from Chatsworth on Sunday for dinner and got back around 10.30pm. It was lovely, like a mini-break and good to catch up with them as we hadn't managed to get together since January.

The Kilberry Inn

We had another fantastic meal at The Kilberry Inn (thanks, Abi!) - the service was exceptional, as always, and the wine recommendation spot on.
Mike had a feta cheese starter while I had fresh herrings in Arran mustard - was fabby! Then we both had beef in ale with mash and roast veg. Mike managed a pudding but I gave up at that point and had coffee and a homemade truffle.
These are the views we had of the sunset on the way home.

We went to Inveraray Highland Games as I had a stall there. Watching the guys toss the caber was strangely mesmerizing! Such a weird "sport"?! but fun to look at.

Arran - just a day trip

We had a trip across on the ferry Claonaig to Lochranza, stopped at the distillery, went round the north side of the island, had lunch in Lamlash, walked along Hamilton Terrace and around the church (good curtain/fabric shop opened next to it) and then to Brodick for a wander along before heading back to the mainland and Tarbert for fish and chips in the cafe and back to the house.