A good weekend

Saturday was a busy day for me; I went to the hairdressers (not my favourite experience but bearable thanks to my current very pleasant hairdresser). From there I collected Jackie and the boys and we went bag packing at Sainsburys to raise money for our school radio station. I really hate bag packing and only went along to support Chris, the person who was organising it. I feel as if I am forcing the customer to accept a service that they probably don't want, and I stress out that I will be rubbish at packing the bags. However I found myself on child care duty for Finn and Noah instead which I found much more pleasant, and I still felt that I was doing my bit! Then in the evening we went over to Heather and Ewan's for dinner; what a treat after a busy day. Dinner was absolutely delicious (the lovely spicy Italian stew was just right and like Goldilocks I ate it all up!) and we had a great, relaxing evening; it was the highlight of our weekend.
Today James and I walked from Drymen to Milngavie with a school group, not a D of E expedition, a general fitness walk. It was a long walk for me, given my current lack of fitness; 19 km. I woke up absolutely dreading it, and it was grey and rainy in the morning. However the terrain was easy, the weather improved during the day, the company was pleasant and I ended up enjoying myself. On the other hand my dodgy knee is very, very sore right now. One of the best things about today though, is that I have now walked the first section of the West Highland Way. I am pleased about this because I want to complete the sections I haven't done over the next year or so, the way that we ticked off the Ayrshire Coastal path, bit by bit. I have already walked various sections of the West Highland Way, some of them many times, so I will make a note of what I have done so far, and start adding new sections as I do them. After our walk we collected Ally from Auchengillan where he had been helping at a Disabled Scouts residential weekend. I was very tired on the way home and revived myself with a bath before Grandma came round for tea. And that is the story of my weekend!