Inverness Trip

Having done our homework for the film 28 Years Later (see my previous post) we decided to book it for early this evening in Inverness. We were already going through to Inverness to meet Alison and Hugh for lunch so it tied in nicely. We met up with Alison and Hugh at Simpsons Garden Centre and had a great time catching up with them, and they very kindly gave us a bag of tasty produce from their garden; French beans and beetroot. After lunch James and I decided to go for a walk by the River Ness, which went well until I stepped into a hole in the pavement and fell right down. A pain shot through my foot and I felt really sick and faint, so I lay where I was until I felt a bit better. A lovely Austrian paramedic saw me fall and had a look at my foot, by which time it was feeling a bit better so James helped me up and I limped back to the car. I reckon that it’s just sprained. James very helpfully nipped into Boots at the retail park and got me ibuprofen, an ankle / foot support and a cooling patch. Fortified by these we went into the cinema to watch our much anticipated film. Well it was a very strange zombie film! It had all the usual gory bits but there was a philosophical interlude in the middle where Ralph Fiennes appeared all painted with iodine, I’m not sure what his character was trying to achieve and it was a bit weird. Not as weird however as the Jimmy Savile references at the end! How bizarre! Despite all this it was quite enthralling and I read later that Danny Boyle is planning two more sequels. 
On our way back to Ullapool we found that the road was closed overnight (8 p.m. until 6 a.m.) in both directions for surface maintenance near Garve. When this happens there are planned hourly “amnesty periods” when work is paused and vehicles are escorted through in a convoy. We were lucky to arrive just fifteen minutes before  the 9 p.m. amnesty so we didn’t have to wait long, and we were soon home to see Tom and Flora.