Shopping with David

Today I had the challenging experience of going Christmas shopping with David. My role was that of advisor. First of all we had a fortifying lunch in TGI Fridays, which, as I'm sure I have mentioned before, is David's favourite restaurant. Then we hit the shops. The first obstacle was that David had little idea of what he wanted to buy and the second obstacle was that he was so pessimistic about the shopping trip that I kept catching him not looking at the items on sale! However once he had made one or two purchases he became more confident and was very pleased when he bought gifts for the whole family, and very thoughtful they were too. We met up with Alasdair in Gordon Street, he was late to meet Andrew (who is home from university for the holidays) due to my stupidity in getting the time of the Sainsbury's delivery wrong. I made it up to them by slipping Ally some money so that they could go out for dinner; this did the trick and Alasdair actually smiled at me. On the way home in the car Davie told me that he feels dogged by coincidence at the moment because every time he thinks of a tune or a television programme he hears / sees it shortly afterwards. He also told me that he was feeling nervous all day because he thought that Rangers were playing today and was worried about how they would get on. Then he was relieved when he realised that they weren't actually playing today. Just a glimpse into the strange world that is David's mind! I love him so much. Home to yet more Christmas cards, including one from my cousin Robin which mentioned that his son Thomas is on his second tour in Afghanistan. I hope that he will be safe, he is such a pleasant young man.