Home again

From http://ianrstewart.blogspot.com/

Long journey, but it went well - no travel problems, just a fairly long (planned) stopover at Seattle. We both had a good few hours' sleep in Business Class, although it was like the Marie Celeste - we'd never seen so many empty seats on a plane.

The house is a shambles, of course - the new downstairs WC had just been fitted out the day before and there was dust everywhere downstairs - and then there were the 2 leaking radiators, one of which was causing a drip down from the bathroom to our back sitting room so we've now got a bucket gathering drips. Scottish Gas have excelled themselves again and I've written a complaint letter. Another engineer is due out in the morning. Is there no end to it all?

We stayed up till 10pm, feeling quite proud of ourselves, and we both soon conked out - but only until 1:30 am. Jo had to get up - she wasn't feeling great and there were too many things she knew she had to do in the house. I stuck it out in bed for another couple of hours, but never got back to sleep, so I got up, had breakfast, then headed to the office.

Nothing was open of course. I couldn't even get a paper - not even at Tesco Extra - the store is open 24 hours, but no papers until 6 am. I considered going in to Bannatyne's, but it doesn't open until 6:30 am. So work it was. At least it gave me a chance to catch up with the holiday backlog.

Back to routine now - until Saturday anyway. I'm due to go down to Johnstone and play in Brian's Members' Invitational at Cochrane Castle.