weekend miscellanies
First, here are the pictures from our weekend. (Look at the next page too).
Friday, we went to Greenock (about 30 mins outside of Glasgow) for Lori’s birthday party — a 18th century murder mystery. We had enough time in Glasgow to grab a rootbeer float en route to the train station for only 40p each; we think the girl at the counter was a little confused, but we didn’t complain! We arrived at the McFarlanes’ for a fun few hours of murdery mystery, lots of laughs, and a lovely meal. We also got to meet some of their friends, but unfortunately our night was rather short as we had to leave on the 10.55 train to make it back to Edinburgh.
Also, that night a friend from college also had his first child back in the States.
Saturday morning we took the train up to Banchory and got to help out at Oliver’s cowboy birthday party that afternoon. We had a lovely walk around Crathes castle gardens and good conversation with Kerry and Carter as always. We went to church on Sunday and then for a walk at Cambus O’ May while Marcet and Kerry went for a fundraising bike ride. Today we enjoyed the sunshine down by the River Dee and dodged some rather fly-away castings by a novice flyfisher and later this evening travelled back to Edinburgh.
In other news, Bryce starts exams a week from tomorrow. His posts may be rather slight this next fortnight. Wednesday I have my first year PhD review with a few profs; hopefully that will go well and will spur me on to the next part of the dissertation. Other than that, we’re looking forward to the longer nights of sunshine, to moving out of our flat into somewhere a bit nicer or larger with a bathtub hopefully (this is Ashley’s wish), to our summer vacations and to (slightly) warmer days. It is very interesting having grown up in the land of forever sunshine to experience the excitement of spring (although lately here it has been a spring flirtation without any real commitment); the daffodils are gorgeous, the sun makes me happy and there is a certain psychological weight that is lifted upon putting away your heavy coat and just going about in a light jacket, if that.
That is all.
April 25th, 2005 at 11:52 pm
I love the daffodils picture! Glad you had a nice weekend and that spring is in the air.
April 26th, 2005 at 12:38 am
Bryce is quite the dashing figure in his uniform! Glad you had a good weekend as you both look forward to tests and reviews. I’m happy you’re beginning to get a taste of Spring. Who killed whom in the mystery dinner?
April 26th, 2005 at 5:41 pm
Just kidding about that sunshine thing; it rained most of today and the sky was grey.
Katie: the daffodils *are* great! I forgot to mention how many cute little lambies we saw too! Those pics of course on our Bryce’s camera, so it may be many millenia until we have those posted.
Dad: Bryce does look dashing (as always)! Of course the corpse was someone already dead like most murder mysteries (not a real character), a Lord “Lucky” Farquar, in this case. It turned out that Lady Josephine Twin-Bore poisoned him because she didn’t want him to expose her “relationship” with her brother. I, as Beryl Sheep, was a famous actress who smuggled jewels with Captn Pigwash (Jonathan) and was secretly having an affair with an American revolutionary. Meanwhile Sarah (as Diana Rose) was being “catechised” by the Reverend. haha
All in good fun.
April 27th, 2005 at 12:37 am
Thanks for the update…sounds like a fun weekend and I loved the pictures. Look forward to talking to you soon and hope that your meeting tomorrow goes well
April 27th, 2005 at 1:48 pm
I love the picture of Bryce and Oliver in cowboy uniform. It’s awesome.