Saturday at the hairdressers

I am sitting in the Rainbow Room in Buchanan Street waiting to get my hair cut and feeling remarkably relaxed considering how much I hate going to the hairdressers. It is an experience I have never enjoyed since childhood so I tend to put off getting my haircut until I look like Cousin Itt from the Addams Family. Anyway I'm in quite a good mood, the weather is very pleasant and I got an excellent parking space on the corner of George Square and St Vincent Street which I regard as a good omen for the haircut. The stylist is very nice and I have asked her to cut my hair as quickly as possible, she told me that she is methodical but fast so that will suit me. I am waiting for half an hour because I have had my hair "painted" at the sides where some grey is beginning to come through - not bad that I have managed to get to 48 before needing my hair to be coloured! In fact there is still very little grey but it is at my temples which annoys me because it shows when I push my hair behind my ears or tie it back. Anyway, enough about hair, it is a subject that I find simultaneously boring and stressful. James is hill-climbing at Newtonmore for the weekend, he has just texted to say that he has reached the top of his hill and is on the way back down. He loves hill-walking so much, it's his way of relaxing. Jamie and Ally should both be studying right now, in Dundee and Cambuslang respectively. Davie is on his way by train to meet Stuart and they are both going to their friend Ryan's 16th birthday party, which David tells me is at a "fancy Italian Restaurant". He has bought Ryan an Itunes voucher as a birthday present. He has his phone with him so he can let me know where to pick him up later. So that's what the family are all up to. I am going to try to finish my Personal Study this weekend - about as boring and stressful as having my hair cut! I want to post it on Monday so that I will have only one more essay to submit in order to complete my Diploma in Autism. My plan is to complete that during the summer term so that it is all done before we go to Australia. I had planned to finish my diploma a year ago but everything fell apart in the last few months of Mum's life and it has taken a while to get back to it. Last night I had a dream that Mum and Dad were both still alive and I was trying to sort out dental treatment for them! I was having trouble arranging it (like I really did with Mum's dental treatment) and I felt really angry and frustrated. On a brighter note I was at Cambuslang Book Club last night at Susan's, we were discussing "One Day" which I read last summer and enjoyed. Nice evening, good company and relaxing. Today the bricklayers arrived to start building the stonework of the extension, Jack went out to keep an eye on them! It's good that the weather is nicer now so that they can get on with it. Well I think it's nearly time for my haircut so I will sign off now.