Early Start

We were up very early today because James was taking Kevin to Inverness train station for the 7.55 a.m. train, which meant that they had to set off at about twenty past six just to be on the safe side. After I said goodbye to them I dived back into bed for a couple of hours and it was tremendous! Meanwhile James and Kevin arrived at the station with a good fifteen minutes to spare, and James then drove another hour and a half to climb Corryhabbie Hill near Tomintoul while I processed washings and did a bit of housework back at the cottage. 

Tom was a bit traumatised this morning because he had stayed out all night! We don’t have a cat flap at Ullapool so we let them in and out on demand, and they can shelter in the porch if it rains. They usually go out for a last excursion about an hour before we go to bed. Flora is always ready to come back inside when we call but Tom can be more elusive and quite often I have to pop back downstairs a couple of times after we are in bed to see if he’s ready to come back in. Last night he didn’t come back and I finally went to bed after midnight, in the knowledge that he would have the shelter of the porch and that we would be getting up very early anyway. Well when we came downstairs in the morning there was Tom standing on his hind legs in the porch battering at the glass of the door with his front paws! He rushed inside when we opened it and ate mightily before retiring to the bed for a very long snooze! He didn’t come downstairs until two in the afternoon!

In the evening James and I followed a recommendation of Kevin’s and watched the first couple of episodes of Vikings, which started on the History Channel about ten years ago, however it has become even more popular since its release on Netflix. So far so good; it’s a bit reminiscent of our recent favourite The Last Kingdom. And there are 89 episodes so it should keep us going for a while!