A wintry day

The Kate Rusby concert last night was great; she was performing with her band and because it was their Christmas tour she sang a lot of traditional carols. She has a truly lovely voice and chatted between the songs, telling us about where they originated. James and I both enjoyed it; I wasn't sure if James would, but he liked the music even though it is a bit different from his usual taste. The snow had followed us from the Ochils and it was snowing during the night. We woke to two or three inches of snow and then James found that his car wouldn't start. He was furious and ranted angrily as we tried to jump start it (unsuccessfully), asking himself why we had bought that car when he had wanted a different one. I knew he meant me (it was me who wanted a seven seater) but rather than enter into a debate I sensibly kept quiet. I was quite concerned about being held up because I had all the English prelims in my car - I brought them home to staple them when I ran out of time on Friday - but I needn't have worried because the main roads were mostly clear. James got the train into work and sounded cheerier when I phoned him later. It was a busy exam day and it flew by, it snowed on and off all day but I could tell that it wasn't too bad and the journey home was fine. On the way home I collected my car from the garage and hopefully it is cured; it was nice to have it back although the brakes seemed a bit soft compared with the Micra courtesy car. Davie's train was cancelled so I nipped over to Newton Mearns to collect him from Stuart's house, it was lovely to have his company in the car; I miss him now that he gets the train home. He is so interesting to chat with. A pleasant evening at home ensued; we all competed on University Challenge as we often do, and we had a good laugh and argued over the answers. James won as usual with twelve points. The rest of us performed dismally. Jack cat got no points at all and didn't show any interest. As I looked around at my boys I suddenly felt very lucky, they are such fun.