Surging Sturgeon, The Eton Mess and Westering Home!

I’ve been following the British parliamentary farce – things really have dropped to an unbelievably limbo-level low. Three nights ago, I heard they were bringing back one of Theresa May’s plans. Well, it’s like watching a dog chasing its tail only you don’t expect the dog to know any better!

Johnson and Rees Mogg both exude that superior air of entitlement: Lord Snooty and the Eton Mess!  That’s why I was delighted to learn that Nichola Sturgeon has been honoured with the M100 Media Award by a group of 100 European editors. They state that when they compare Holyrood stability with the Brexit meltdown, she has been seen as ‘the crucial  voice of reason in the debate’ and has taken a ‘responsible and ethic stance against Brexit’.

                 

 

What a worthy winner she is! I have never had leanings towards SNP before, but  she has won me over. As for the Westminster shenanigans, I have both literally and metaphorically switched off.

                        

                                                      

We’re still enjoying our daily swims here and the temperatures are still hovering around 30oC but, like the swallows, we are preparing for the off.  On Monday we travel to Durham, where we’ll meet up with my family and with Angeliki, currently teaching at the University there. Having a Wednesday overnight in Leith, we then go westering home with a song in the air: driving down Loch Fyne to the West Loch Tarbert Hotel. Needless to say I am really looking forward to it. We may also manage a trip to the Klberry Inn – our old home. Our final stop will be with niece, Jen, and husbnd, Mark, in Sheffield to see their new home and, most importantly to meet their 6-month-old son, Callum.

Itching to be oop north and in the Highlands and hope the weather will be kind and clement. No politics, but just a wee message for Nichola: Congratulations and gawn yersel, hen, gawn yersel!!