Rainbow over Rutherglen

While driving over to the sports centre yesterday I was treated to a gorgeous rainbow which transformed the dark clouds with its burst of light. Beautiful. I do enjoy my swimming and the water seemed particularly sparkling as I swam my 1000 metres. A lady arrived into the pool, exclaimed at the cold wind and informed me that she always swims 64 lengths. I was impressed because that’s much more than my 40 lengths but I couldn’t help noticing that she left the pool after only about 15 minutes. She could talk the talk but she didn’t swim the swim. 

This evening I went with James and Gordon to Motherwell Concert Hall to see Sir Ranulph Fiennes speaking about his life as an adventurer. What a good speaker he is; very entertaining. The audience loved him. He is a craggy looking 77 year old, very weather-beaten with quite a lot of the tops of his fingers missing. However he was very good-looking when he was younger, as could be seen in some of his earlier slides, and was once nearly chosen to play James Bond on screen! However he said that he decided to leave the acting to his distant cousins, Ralph and Joseph!