We had a lovely family day today. James and I walked along to Burnside to visit Grandma in the morning; the weather was crisp and chilly with blue skies - absolutely beautiful. We bought her some flowers in Tesco on the way. She was quite tired today and was spending the morning in bed. After a chat we returned home and had lunch with Ally and Davie. We had James’ hearty homemade minestrone soup with homemade bread and it was all delicious. We were entertained by the sight of Flora climbing up one of the pear trees in hot pursuit of a magpie. She really had a good try at catching it; she boldly ran up the branches towards where it was perching several times! Needless to say it flew away each time, but it must have been annoyed because it kept returning to the tree and squawking angrily at her. She is so funny; she looked like a wee koala sitting upright on a branch and holding onto the trunk of the tree. Tom appeared downstairs at this point and took advantage of Flora’s absence to request and devour a fresh bowl of cat food without her.
We then spent the next couple of hours playing The Game of Life which was great fun. James is not particularly enthusiastic about board games and had to be persuaded to join in. His reluctance was very amusing, and several times he lamented about how long the game was taking, but actually he was a good sport about it. I liked all the wee activities and digressions caused by the “action” cards and they had us laughing. Alasdair won (of course) with James a close second. We moved to the front room where we chatted some more over a cup of tea, and ended up eating dinner while watching David Attenborough on the television.
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