Up, up and away...

Up early, or rather, late by my usual Saturday standards. A quick breakfast with Anne of croissants and coffee and then off to see Helen the toe lady at 9:15 for a once over of the (now over one year on) sore toe...

Not too bad today..

Back home and pick up Anne and then we drive out to Pathhead for one of the Christmas presents I gave her last year – a helicopter trip over Edinburgh...

Although a bit nervous, this is something Anne’s always wanted to do and she really enjoyed it – even although it was a short trip....here are some pics...

We then drove from Pathhead to Gifford in East Lothian to the Goblin Ha’ for lunch. It’s said that the Hotel is built over the medieval Goblin Hall which was built by goblins and fairies...

Our soundtrack was The Move’s “Message From the Country” which arrived this morning in the mail...

We ate so much that we didn’t need anything else all day...

After a walk around the sleepy village (no, that's not us on the horses...)

...we drove back to Edinburgh, this time the soundtrack was Cloudland Blue Quartet’s “Deeperdown”...

Back home, Anne tuned in to the afternoon footie commentaries – featured match Hibs v Hearts. On the net, I kept an eye on Brechin v Queen of the South and Stranraer v St Mirren while continuing to fulfill the large order for Deeperdown which needs to be delivered in around three weeks’ time....

Disaster as Hibs score a late winner to take the derby 2-1 but glory for QoS as they draw with bottom of the table Brechin while Champions St Mirren beat Stranraer. And so the mighty Queens escape the play offs and will be in Division One next season for the fifth consecutive year...

I have to say though that, despite the miraculous turnaround since January when we were 12 points behind Stranraer (we’re now five ahead with one game left), QoS must be relegation favourites next year again (as I suppose they are every year)...

In the four years so far (in each of which we’ve been relegation favourites) we’ve finished 5th, 5th, 4th and now 8th. Needless to say I’ll be down in Dumfries next week for the last game of the season, against Dundee....

Although I am a hoodoo, there’s now nothing at stake and I can just go and enjoy the match...

In the evening we watched “CSI New York” and “Law & Order Criminal Intent”...

Also today, in a bout of Spring cleaning, I saved all the classical tracks from my jukebox onto two DVD-Rs and wiped them from the jukebox, freeing up 6.5 Meg of space...

Highlight of the Day : Queens are staying up...