Back to the boondocks

We're home again. That was the most flying of visits to the city - that other life of busy streets, of hundreds of people in a hall, of family and - this morning at least, bright sunshine. And by late afternoon we were once more out for the obligatory walk to iron out the stiffness of a two-hour car journey, watching rain arrive over Glen Sannox on Arran, where the light and the mists served to define well-loved landmarks.

After a peaceful, mission-accomplished sort of night in the hotel, we packed up in a leisurely fashion and wandered over to Ewan's house for breakfast - I'm adding an extra of the magnificent scrambled eggs on sourdough that he made for us, fuelling us with protein and coffee for the drive home. Before we left, we had a preview of the work he was engaged in, which had us well awake by the time we all left, him to work and us to go. We left under a blue sky crossed by saltires of con trails and joined the Monday morning traffic ...

A couple of hours later we drove straight onto a waiting ferry and were on the last leg. (I love it when that happens, as if the boat was waiting just for us.) We carted the bags in, disposed them in vaguely suitable places, drank a gallon of tea apiece and ate a slice of Christmas cake (you can see I've got the taste for it - it'll be done soon.) And then we headed towards the slightly lighter sky left from the arrival of the cloudy front we'd seen on the weather forecast last night and walked round the triangle of roads at Toward lighthouse. The main photo was taken just as we were returning to the car, just because of that misty definition of the glen a third of the way in from the left of the island. 

Before dinner I had an amusing exchange of texts with #2 on the subject of AI - it's fair to say I was sufficiently amazed by what I saw to consider making use of it fairly soon - though at second hand, because what he was doing is way beyond my pay grade. And then we ate far too much because I'd bought steaks to be relatively quick to come home to and now it's after midnight and I may not sleep a wink because of it. Maybe I need to go another walk ...