Revisiting the past

Here we are back in Ullapool and very glad to be here. We brought the cats with us and they have settled in quickly; Tom is his usual happy self and Flora seems to have overcome her initial doubts which led her to sit unhappily underneath our bed for the first couple of hours. She has even ventured outside with Tom for a while this evening. 

As predicted in the weather forecast, today’s weather was extremely mixed, ranging from sunshine to heavy rain and even hail. So we had a cosy day in the cottage. James constructed a cabinet for the study and I watched a French film “L’Hotel de la Plage” which I once saw in my youth, probably about 1980. At that time I indiscriminately thought that anything French was wonderful, and I found it to be a fantastic film, funny and witty and very cool. However watching it today I found it to be a rather dated mild sex comedy, and its only real merit for me was a pleasant nostalgia. It was a strange feeling to watch it again after so many years. It was definitely the same film so it is my perception that has changed. Où sont les neiges d’antan?