Cookin'...

Playlist
David Bowie – Lodger
Various – 100 Recent Albums Playlist
Various – Holiday Hits

The by now usual scenario of getting up late continued...

By the time breakfast was over it was almost 12 and Anne and I ventured out leaving Alan and Penny studying...

We drove to Brodick and parked on the front. We wanted to walk to the castle but only made it as far the Cheese Factory, albeit after walking for 40 minutes including a break while I went to see the house on Douglas Place where I spent a couple of enjoyable summer holidays in the early 60’s...



It took us a further 35 minutes to walk back to the car. Along the way, we spotted this heron looking for fish in the river...



We decided to drive to Corrie for lunch at its eponymous hotel. It took just 3 minutes to get back to the cheese factory even though the road was ¾ of a mile longer than the short cut route we’d taken across the golf course...

Arriving in Corrie, we thought we saw a seal basking on a rock...



Turned out to be a statue...

To add to our disappointment, the hotel is closed on Wednesdays – so we drove back to Brodick and enjoyed a tasty lunch at a wee place called Stalkers...

Then to the trusty Co-op to replenish supplies back at the house, including two music mags for me and the last newspaper in the shop, a Daily Star which Anne had to have as it had a story about Hearts on the back page...



Instead of going straight home, we drove on past the house out to the headland from where an excellent view of Holy Island presented itself...



Once back home, Alan and Penny went off on a walk to the self same headland...

In the evening, my turn to cook and I made a particularly hot Spaghetti Bolognese aided and abetted by Anne...



Tasty...

Then it was out into the bitterly cold wind and rain for a 30 minute walk to the Drift Inn for drinks – possibly too may drinks if the truth be told...

We were entertained by some people watching, a good jukebox and much lager, local beer, gin and, for me at the end of the night, Bailey’s on ice – an old favourite...



Then another hellish 30 minutes through the wind and rain (this time head on) back to the house, where Alan, Penny and I sat up watching Humphrey Bogart and Woody Allen (not in the same film)...



I retired at 1:45 while Alan apparently stayed up till 5 am (again!)...

Highlight of the Day : Cooking with Anne