An Eventful Week

An eventful week - Osama bin Laden killed after all these years in hiding and the SNP sweep to an outright majority in a landslide election victory. However what we really cared about was much closer to home - Ewan had his operation on Thursday. We were very glad to hear from Heather that the operation went well and that Ewan was "remarkably cheery and pain free" by the evening, and that on Friday he was already moving about well on crutches. Ewan was very well-informed about his operation, what benefits it will bring him and what it would involve, however an operation is still a big deal and I think he was very brave! Of course I didn't say that to him before the op but James and I were thinking about him all day Thursday and we were so pleased that all went well. We are going to visit him in hospital tomorrow. It has also been a busy week. On Wednesday I was at my East Kilbride book club at Susan's house, as usual it was good fun and nice to see everyone. Then on Thursday I had an exciting and top secret mission to Strathaven to take photos of Caroline in her wedding dress - it is gorgeous and she looked great. Then I went for a meal with her and Jamie to the Waterside Inn - very nice meal and they make a lovely couple, so happy together. And last night I was out with Sheila, Kathryn and Barbara to the Merrylee Bar and Diner, a nice relaxing evening with friends. We chatted about all sorts of things and I got some good recommendations of books for my summer reading list! Today I spent all day helping Alasdair with Higher English work, this was not easy because at first we seemed to be at cross purposes and Ally was really grumpy. He was saying things like, "You're making things worse!" and "You're so stupid, you don't understand!" However we got onto the same wavelength eventually and sketched out some critical essay plans and relevant quotes. Ally has a lot of good notes already and has been practising all this, so he just needed some help with structure. He was quite pleased with me in the end and said "That's just what I needed!" Nice to be in his good books!