It's not often...

A day starts brilliantly and gets better, but today did just that!  

Decided not to set an alarm and we were both woken up just before 9am with Lola barking.  She clearly thought we were both dead!  She rarely comes upstairs but D called her up and she settled on the floor at D's side of the bed.

D went downstairs then appeared with a tray with a cafetière of coffee, 2 mugs and 2 plates, then disappeared again only to return with an amazing platter of cheese, ham, fresh fruit, croissants, pain au chocolat, jam tarts, pretzels and jam.  Oh my!  Can't remember when we last had a proper breakfast in bed!  It was delicious!  (We didn't manage to eat it all! :-) 

Once he was able to tear himself away from the feast, D took Lola out to Blackford Hill for her walk.  I had a more leisurely start to the afternoon doing absolutely nothing till it was time to get showered and ready for this evening's trip to Glasgow to see Rufus Wainwright at the Royal Concert Hall with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Before that though, I spent some lovely time with Alan who was in a very good mood and keen to give me my Mother's Day card and gift (normally he hangs on to it for about three days before agreeing to hand it over!  lol) We chatted about our family summer holiday in Filey.  Andrew is coming too.  That lead to a discussion about Andrew as he's back again tomorrow for three days.  They'll have an afternoon in Dundee tomorrow then back for a swim.

Then I got to open my card and pressies. A beautiful bouquet of flowers, Reece's peanut butter chocs and a beautifully soft Scottish Tweed cashmere scarf.  I am a very lucky mum!

D and I headed off to Glasgow just before 6pm.  Got parked in the multi-storey car park opposite the Royal Concert Hall.  As we made our way to the venue we were trying to remember the last time we had a night out in Glasgow, and neither of us could remember!  

In our younger years, when we both worked in Glasgow, it was a regular occurrence to be out socialising in town either together or with work colleagues.  That seems like a whole lifetime ago.  Probably because it was!  We had a laugh reminiscing about some of the more memorable nights out!

Once in the Concert Hall I had to use two lifts to get to the right level.  The first one was a little open manual lift where you go in, keep your finger on the button till it gets up to the level.  It's beside the first lot of stairs.  All good until the lift was almost at the next level when it started to make the most horrendous squeaking noise! Think it needs oiled!  It was so loud!  I couldn't stop laughing, especially at David's face (he'd gone up the stairs as the lift only takes one person) as he waited for me to arrive!  

Our seats in the hall were superb.  Fabulous view of the stage.  To be fair, the concert hall isn't massive so no matter which seat you're in, you're virtually guaranteed a good view.

The orchestra took to the stage first, followed by the conductor.  There is absolutely nothing to beat live music and as soon as the orchestra began playing my spine was literally tingling.  Rufus came on stage to a huge roar and started the night off with I don't know what it is, one of my favourites :-)  The concert was absolutely amazing.  The orchestra was superb.  I spent as much time watching the musicians as I did Rufus :-)

One of the stand out songs of the evening for me was Beautiful Child and of course  Dinner at Eight a song about his turbulent relationship with his father (Loudon Wainwright III) made me cry like it always does.  The grand finale was what I thought it would be, Oh what a world  Superb!  

A trip to the loo after the concert almost saw us being locked in the venue as the accessible loos were miles from where we were seated in the hall, and when we came out the place was deserted, lights were going out and a security guard let us out!  

Quick journey home as the roads were deserted. 

An absolute corker of a day! :-)