Out with Ally and Davie

I had a really lovely meal this evening at The Italian Kitchen with Ally and Davie. Davie and I decided to check it out because he is taking his girlfriend there for lunch on Saturday and he couldn't remember exactly where it was. We invited Ally too, who met us at the restaurant straight from a 6 p.m. lecture by the Regius chair in Law. He was full of the joys and told us all about his lecture. I get the impression that Ally is enjoying his Law course more as time goes on. We then had a very lively discussion about Les Miserables which Ally saw and enjoyed this week with Cat. We mostly agreed on our favourite parts and we talked quite a lot about Javert's motives. David drew some very interesting parallels between Robin Jenkins' The Cone Gatherers and Les Miserables, pointing out similarities between Duror and Javert. He is so clever and insightful and interesting, so why is English so difficult for him at school? It must be the way that it is taught. James was not with us because he is in London until tomorrow evening; it looks like his planned weekend to Newtonmore may be cancelled because of the heavy snow which is forecast over much of Britain. I did enjoy dining out with my boys.