Lovely sitooterie!

@Treshnish - We are so impressed on our arrival at Studio to see the new sitooterie! The swallows on the glass are presumably to stop the masses of swallows circling the place from smacking into it   We couldn’t drag ourselves out of it. 

Now, could you do something about the weather?

Breakfast in Belle Époque,  our vast suite in 1 Devonshire Gardens into which we unaccountably got upgraded.  I decided to have breakfast for once given that we had an actual dining table.   We made it out on time stopping first at Waitrose on Byers Rd to pick up a picnic for lunch and stuff for breakfast so we didn’t have to race to get to the shop in Dervaig.   After that we walked the dog in the Botanical Gardens and then headed out West

Heavy atmospheric rain as we drove through Glen Coe playing our ritual soundtrack of The Proclaimers.   Still beautiful but I felt sorry for the coaches of Chinese tourists standing under umbrellas staring into the mist, no doubt somewhat baffled by what they were doing there.  Swept abord the Corran Ferry wondering when we’d get to eat the picnic that we’d planned for the queue so pulled in and stopped just when we arrived on Morven.  

Which meant we missed the 3.15 ferry by minutes but were happy to sit and wait for the 4pm.  I climbed to the Lochaline shop to buy some celery and was rewarded by seeing a slow worm twisting across the steps. The wind was cold on the ferry so I didn’t spend long outside the car but got a few pics of the crossing for memory.  I always back research Mull trips to double check weather, clothing and itinerary.  

Lovely to be here.  V cooked his Italian-baiting adaptation of spaghetti puttanesca and we finished supper early enough to read. I have finished The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright which is beautifully written and conceptualised but left me a bit cold.  I have gone back to read more of Derek Jarman’s diaries  but might read them episodically and start another novel.