Snowy Scotland

After 3 alcohol-enhanced evenings what a pleasure it is to wake up, on a Sunday morning, to this site ....

And what a weekend it has been! .... Started off on Thursday at the swedish Boda Bar with an old colleague, one of the sweetest and most fun girls I know. After enjoying a Swedish pear cider, Annalee and I headed back to my flat for a feast of crisps, chocolate and red wine ... as you do on girls catch-up nights!

My old Aussie flatmate Brian is heading traveling/home soon so we had a 'wee bender' on Friday. (Haha for your cricket comments Bri ... sorry I'm just a proud Saffer today!)

Saturday was rugby, the victorious Irish took on the (kinda) mighty Scotland, 9 people went to the pub to cheer on the Scots, I went to support the Irish lads but had to do it on the quiet side!! Afterwards entailed a long, long pub crawl, piggy backs, can-can dancing, oreo milkshakes and veg kebabs!

Today I woke up feeling enthusiad by the snow so charged up my camera and headed to the park to get some sweet and innocent photos of kids enjoying a snowball fight. But wait, I remembered I live in the UK .... instead of discretely taking pics I made sure everyone could see exactly what I was doing. When about to leave the park I heard a woman screeching "Excuse me Lady", I turned towards her and she shouted "blah blah blah". Pardon. "BLAH BLAH BLAH". I'm sorry but I do not understand. "What yer dooin taking pics of ma burns n dog?". I'm so sorry to hear you got burnt ... said in an accentuated South African accent. "What, huh?" You mentioned your burns. "MY KIDS AND MY DOG!!!" Oh, I'm from Africa and haven't really experienced snow, would you like to see the photos? "No", said with a look of pure surprise. Thanks, bye.
Over protective / understandably suspicious in a mad world / naughty me for taking photos without asking first ?

This afternoon was my usual ashtanga yoga class. After that Craig, my gym mate, and I drove through to Glasgow as ..... THERE IS A WAGAMAMA RESTAURANT IN SCOTLAND!!! We thoroughly enjoyed a Japanese meal then went on to build my first snowman who was over a metre tall! As there was atleast a foot of snow we also made weggie snow-angels (meaning Glaswegian). Came back to Edinburgh to sledge around Arthurs Seat but alas the white stuff here had melted! Ended up exploring a tunnel that I did not know existed, it starts on the city side of Holyrood park and comes out near Niddrie. About 25m into the tunnel I felt the most terrifying feeling, we swiftly changed direction to get out of there asap and I felt ill for the following 5 minutes. Craig said quite a few people died whilst contructing the tunnel; the only explanation I could think of was from doing Reiki courses I am more intouch with 'energies' and the ones in there were petrifyingly negative! 'Personally recommended as the BEST Ghost-tour in Edinburgh!' After that we had the solution to all the world's problems - a cup of tea!

On the whole - a superb weekend!!!

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"The secondary funtion of a bathroom mirror is to measure murmurs in mental mud."