Staying overnight in Inverness as I'll be attending a course tomorrow, and it would be a very early start in order to make the journey across in the morning. The hotel had screwed my booking up, and when we arrived tired and gasping for a cuppa, my colleague and I were given the key to a double room - at 10.45pm!! We raced back to the reception, who was closing up for the night. After much huffing, puffing and general surlyness we were given some extra bedding for the sofa bed in the room.

The 24 hour Tesco looked beguilingly close - only a couple of minute walk away, so we decided to go and get some decent tea bags and milk. It was 11.30, pitch black, and the route to the superstore took on all the hallmarks of a commando training ground. Scrambling up slippery embankments and over fences is not something I do that often. But we got there (slightly dusty and dishevelled in my case), and enjoyed a giggle about the whole evening's turn of events.