Today Jamie and Aisling came for lunch and for Aisling to meet the kittens. Both of them are allergic to cats but they took antihistamines and risked it anyway, and Aisling fell in love with Ruby in particular. Tom and Ruby were both very sweet with her and I was proud of them. They did not live down to their recent nicknames of Poopy and Pisswizard. Poopy because of Ruby's occasional careless habit of stepping in her own poop and Pisswizard after a shameful incident in the downstairs shower tray by Tom! For which he showed no remorse!
Jamie is full of the joys because he has just bought his first new car - the now deceased Nissan Micra aka "Mario" was of course his first car, inherited from Gran, and will always have a place in his heart. The new one is a small Volvo and after long and agonising (for all of us) negotiations and soul-searching he has finally signed for it and will collect it on Wednesday.
After they went home James made a lovely steak dinner and we watched the first (double) episode of a new drama called "Fortitude", which seems a bit like Wallander crossed with Fargo. It has a distinguished cast and beautiful snowy scenery (filmed in Iceland but supposed to be set in the north of Norway I think). We will see how it shapes up.