Festive

We have been very lucky to have enjoyed many festive occasions in the lead up to Christmas. One of the first was my School Show, which was absolutely amazing and a very happy evening, I was so impressed by the pupils' many talents. Then a couple of days later we went to a Christmas concert at Kelvingrove Art Gallery, featuring the Paisley Abbey Choir, which includes Kenneth - he looked very smart in his red cassock. The acoustics were tremendous and the music was really good.
We also had a pre-Christmas spa break with Alison and Hugh in Fonab Castle Hotel, which is a lovely hotel with delicious food, and it also happens to be almost exactly half way between our two homes; about an hour and a quarter travel for each of us. We had a very relaxing time in the spa, which is quite small but has everything you need; it has a decent length of pool as well as sauna, steam room, aromatherapy room and jacuzzi. Our bedroom in one of the lodges was splendidly decorated and, despite the rather dreich weather, had a fine view over the Pitlochry Dam on the River Tummel. In fact, as James quipped, it was a "dam fine view", which I thought was very funny.
Unfortunately Grandma ended up back in hospital recently with another UTI. We had suspected that she wasn't doing too well for a few days and then, just over a week before Christmas, she took a turn for the worse and had to go up to Hairmyres by ambulance. She was understandably very unhappy about this, but the IV antibiotics did the trick and she recovered quickly, getting back home after four days. This meant that she could settle back in at home in time for Christmas.