We are having a pleasant couple of weeks at home before our next trip to Ullapool. The weather feels cold compared to lovely Dubai but actually it’s probably average for early March. I’ve been doing a lot of swimming at David Lloyd and some days it has been beautifully sunny. I feel that we are in the cusp of Spring.
Alison and Hugh came to spend a night with us before their holiday to Gran Canaria, and we had a very pleasant catch up over a tagine that was, frankly, disappointing. It was too sweet (it had honey and chopped apricots in it) and was not up to my usual standard. In the morning when they got up to get ready for the airport Flora and Tom were very amazed that they were still here and Flora was shouting loudly at them in the hall!
The next evening Ruth and Donald came round and we had another convivial catch up; I have seen Ruth a few times over the last couple of years but I haven’t seen Donald since before Covid. Ruth insisted on bringing the dinner because she originally invited us round, but they are having decorating done and it hasn’t been finished on time. So she asked me to provide the oven and she very kindly brought the food! Or maybe she had heard how my latest tagine turned out ha ha!
I have also been doing useful things like going to the dentist and the jeweller and the post office and the optician. And this evening I went to visit Jenn F; it was the first time that I have seen her since her Mum’s funeral and we had a really good talk.
And the invasion of Ukraine continues, it’s so sad and awful. I wish that the West could go in to help them properly but that would run a real risk that Putin would escalate things yet further. But the Ukrainians really need support. I don’t know what’s going to happen.
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