Versatile

Crawling to bed at midnight in the knowledge that it’s really 1am, I’m looking back at today in some wonder. We’re nothing if not versatile, we grandparents…

We began with a drive out to Bathgate to watch older grandson Alan play in an important semifinal of whichever football league his team, Spartans, play in. It was one of these games that seem to go on for hours, with incredibly tense mode, some disbelieving roars at poor offside decisions (even I could see this) and a 5-1 victory for Spartans. I got a sunburned nose and Alan escaped injury. Result! So the top half of the photo shows the two teams doing their ritual handshakes at the end.

The bottom photo was taken in the packed Usher Hall this evening, where our older granddaughter was playing the trombone in the concert band at the big ESMS concert. It’s not just that she was in it playing wonderful rasping sounds when required, I really enjoyed that part of the evening most (and me a violinist in the Hillhead High orchestra back in the day). It was ten o’clock by the time we got out, and then we’d to find a taxi…

But we did. Eventually. And now …

Enough. Goodnight!