The good weather has continued over the last few days and I have been out and about doing some walking whenever I can. Today I met up with Fiona for lunch at Low Parks museum in Hamilton and afterwards went for a walk into Strathclyde Park and back. This evening James, Davie and I went to the Grosvenor Cinema in Ashton Lane to see the new film of David Copperfield. Armando Ianucci has played rather fast and loose with the plot to make it more concise; Dora’s role was rather glossed over and I thought that he could have made more of Mr Micawber, but these are just niggles. Hugh Laurie was very good as Mr Dick, who was my Dad’s favourite Dickens’ character because he liked Mr Dick’s way of cutting to the chase and seeing what needed to be done straight away rather than concerning himself with the big picture. All in all I felt that it was a joyful and excellently diverse version of the story.
All three of us enjoyed the film and discussed it over dinner at Ashoka West End, as well as reminiscing fondly over some holiday adventures in Alaska and Yellowstone Park. We were all feeling very happy when we arrived back at the car, only to find a note stuck to our windscreen explaining that someone had reversed into our car in the car park, and had driven away without stopping. The wing of the car is pressed in and quite badly damaged. Luckily for us some kind passers by managed to take a photograph of the number plate of the retreating car, then left us the note as well as informing the police. We phoned the witnesses on the number they had left and they very pleasantly filled us in on the details, and then the police phoned us and said that they were investigating it as a hit and run. Tomorrow we need to go to the police station at Rutherglen with the incident report number. A subdued trio of Andersons drove home; it was a disappointing end to what had been a very nice evening.
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