Heading up north

M has been invited to Scotland for a game of golf on one of the famous courses around St Andrews and so here we are, wet clothes and thermals packed and on our way up the M1, onto the M6 and north. It always cracks me up that less that 20 miles out of London the signs for 'the North' start as if it is an anonymous something.
A good trip up - about 7.5 hours and we are now with our friends I and L who have a lovely house looking out on to the Tay estuary.
Went out for a good curry in the evening before sloping off to bed early.