A fine day

I got up at eight to give Grandma her eye drops and found that it was a fine, sunny morning, warmer than it has been for weeks. I went back home and had breakfast outside then had a brilliant morning pottering around the house and garden. The boys got up during the course of the morning and Christine invited me round for a while. The garden was full of children playing, it was nice to see David running around outside after all his football viewing yesterday - after the Scottish Cup Final he watched the Bayern Munich v Chelsea match last night which he tells me was very exciting and went to penalties - Chelsea won. While he and Kyle watched the match I had indulged myself with a chick flick which none of my boys would have tolerated called "I Don't Know How She Does It" which was a fun piece of frippery. After lunch I took Grandma up to the Heritage Park for a walk; it was lovely and warm but she was wearing her coat and was shocked that I was wearing t-shirt and jeans. She said I wasn't wearing a jacket out of "bravado"! We had a pleasant walk then a coffee before heading home. James arrived home bronzed and exhausted after a good weekend of walking that had ranged from snow on the top of Slioch and hailstones to warm sunshine. Grandma came round for dinner and we all caught up on our news. Later I was testing Ally on his Latin vocabulary and he was impressed with how many words I knew! On the news - Megrahi the Lockerbie bomber has died. Some say he was innocent, others that he was guilty, most people seem to agree that he was a shady character travelling about on a false passport whether he did this crime or not. Like many people I have very strong emotions about the Lockerbie bombing and I have no idea what the truth is. But it does annoy me that the public were lied to by the Scottish government about him being released on "compassionate grounds" with only weeks to live. I know that it is hard to predict with great accuracy how long a terminally ill patient has to live. But we were told that it was a very short time and in fact it has been two and a half years. I just don't think that the doctors could have got it that wrong. It's not that I was wishing for Megrahi's death, however I believed that the Scottish government was acting out of compassion for a convicted murderer with only weeks to live. Now I have a feeling of somehow being made a fool of. I would like to see the doctors who made the diagnosis come forward and explain - maybe there is a good explanation and I would like to hear it. Or was it all about trade deals with Libya?