Weekend miscellany

We went to Dundee yesterday to take Davie's television and PS4 to him (these are very necessary for student life, so Davie tells me.) We took Davie and Chanel out for lunch - we went to one of those burger places with a huge menu of hundreds of burgers but it was nothing special. Then we did a few errands including buying a teapot for David - you know how it is when one cup isn't quite enough! It was a raw, cold day and on the way home we encountered the band of snow that was sweeping down the west of Scotland. The outside lane of the motorway became very snowy so we just took it easy and got home to a very pretty and wintery street just as it got dark. James lit the fire in the lounge and a cosy evening ensued.

James and Ally girded themselves up for a snowy walk this morning but I decided that I would prefer a swim so took myself to Tollcross Baths. It really is an excellent facility, mainly because it is so spacious that it never seems overcrowded. As I swam up and down David Bowie's Life on Mars was playing on the radio. 

When I got home the hall was full of feathers and Ruby was lying casually at the bottom of the stairs. I looked around suspiciously for the source and sure enough, there was a bird (a thrush I think) crouched in a corner - alive, I'm glad to say. I don't know why the cats hadn't finished it off. I opened the front for and managed to shoo it out, it fluttered off, but it had lost an awful lot of feathers - poor wee thing!