Travels, food, good friends and filming........

Peter and i arrived home yesterday evening from Skye.
The photo is of the Harbour in Portree. Don't those lovely painted houses cheer you up?!?!?!? If you have children under 8, you'll probably want to burst into a blast of "What's the story in Balamorie"!!!!!! (but for those who don't know, that is from a different Island called Mull!!!


Anyway, Peter and i went off on Tuesday morning,  armed with the supplies from Kimbles and a bottle of Southern Comfort (which turned the Northern warmer!!)
It's a 7 hour bus journey from Glasgow to Portree. We did have a long enough break at Fort William to stretch our legs and do a loo stop.


Linda was waiting for us at the Square with Harry the taxi driver - both happy to see us and asking how we were.
Off we went to Linda's and got ourselves organised - met Yasmin and Lachie again and started to catch up. Lachie had kept a DVD he had been given for his birthday in January to watch with Peter!! He's been asking the past couple of weeks "just when does young Peter arrive???"


After we'd eaten, the boys settled down to watch a dvd and Linda and i caught up. Peter came thru to let us know what they were watching and Yasmin went out with Alex her boyfriend. 


Linda told me she had an e mail from Keegan to say that he'd managed to get booked into a hotel and would meet us in Portree on Thursday  morning. We'd arranged for Yasmine to get some time off school to help us with the filming. So one Lachie and Peter had been dispatched to bed (about 11) linda and i settled down with another drink and managed to get more chatting and catching up done. I can't remember what time we decided to call it a night, but  as i went upstairs, Linda called behind me to tell me to close the bedroom door, lest John the cat (who is really a girl cat - another story for another blog) get into the bedroom and give us a fright if we got up top go to the Loo in the night!!!! 


Wednesday morning, we did a bit of shopping, came back to the house and then went off to Aros. It's a visitor Centre - local cinema is there and they have a lovely place where you can eat. Oh - and a lovely view out the window!! Had a lovely lunch and a wander and then headed back. 
I texted Keegan to suggest a time we met up the next morning, that was ok and then we got "the boys" settled for and evening of dvd watching and listening to the laughs!!!!


I have to admit, we did stay up and drink a little - mmmm - more like a lot more than we had planned to!! I told her i was a bit worried about this Naidex exhibition that Enable have a stand at and i was a bit worried about my input. Would anybody actually be interested, or would i just stand there and be a gibbering wreck. Or even worse - have a dose of the verbal poop and not be able to sort myself out!!!!


Oh this friendship thing is great - for the price of a bottle of southern comfort and a box of kimble's choccies, i get the best therapy out!!!
And better still, the therapist shares the loot!!!!!


You wouldn't get that kinda treatment at the Priory!!!!!


Yes - i'm still doing it - we have a rule - what's said on the island is kept on the island, but it went along the lines of "you stupid woman - just do it".


 Just think of Rene from Allo Allo when you read that !!!!!


By 1.30 am we decided it prob would be a good idea to get to bed. Keegan's worst nightmare of a day would most likely be to work with a pair of slipping, sliding and screeching towards middle age women who were sleep deprived and hungover!!!!


He would most likely tell Yasmin and Peter to make a run for the car, while he made sure we were locked up and then take them to a place of safety where mad mothers and their shenanigans were banned!!


Or Maybe Yasmin and Peter would have hot-wired the car, drove past him, dragging him in and gone joy riding round the island!!!


Thankfully, neither scenario happened. I was clarinsed and No7'd within an inch of something or other and we headed off down to the Square. 


It was a lovely morning and we managed to get quite a bit done. Some lovely stuff at the Harbour and at the Square. There was a local market on, so we got filming there - Peter and Yasmin buying some choc shortbread for us to take home. There is a lovely shop in Portree called Tippecanoe - we picked up a couple of things to take home and Keegan asked if he could film - when he explained what it was for they said yes. On the way out, the woman who owns the shop was standing there - she was curious as to why we were filming, but when we told her what it was for, she seemed ok about it.


Off to the Well Plaid for lunch - always good for something nice and we sat and chatted. I was glad all the filming was done. Keegan had to head off to Perth and we headed home


Linda had bought some bread from the market. One was Brie and tomato, another had red onions and the 3rd had Stornoway black pudding in it. Now - i am not a black pudding fan. I have tasted it before, but it was the dry mass produced stuff. This BP was LOVELY!! Even if you didn't eat the actual stuff, there was a lovely taste to the bread. I may be converted!!!!!


It seemed that our time had gone too quickly - our last evening, we sat and chatted more. Linda says the best bit was when i told her a story about 2 women when we were stuck at Girvan Station. The nice summer day had turned into a lovely summer storm and there was trouble with the trains. Eventually, a mini bus was summoned to the station to take us to the station at Ayr and from there we could get a train to Glasgow. These wifies were determined that they were NOT getting on a mini bus anywhere, because they were going to Paisley!! For those unaware of the geography, the train to Glasgow has to travel THRU paisley to get to the city.


But try tellin these wimmen that nugget of choice info and they were not for taking it!! I don't now if i'm laughing at the thought of the story, or watching Linda laugh helplessly as she almost slid off the couch!!!!


Friday morning we set off to Portree Square for the bus to Glasgow. Just as well we had booked tickets - the bus was full most of the way down.
To be honest, much as i wanted to stay awake and watch the scenery go by, like Peter i was tired, so spent time snoozing. 


We had our break at Fort William and got some goodies to eat. Peter munched his way thru 2 spring rolls, a packet of grapes, a smarties cookie and a bag of quavers. I went for the "unusual way to get one of your portions of fruit a day" and chose the jammy donut!!


Don't anybody dare tell me it's  not one of my 5 a day - remember that hungover sleep deprived sliding to middle age woman - she does get out you know and lives in a street near you!!


Just as i  munched into the donut, my mobile rang. I had to rummage thru my bag to get it. It was Keegan. Naidex had wanted a bio of the people speaking and was the bit he was going to read out ok?? 


I'm surprised that i didn't 1 scream


and 2 choke on the rest of the donut!!!




THey want to know about me, they want me to speak. Eeeeeekkkkkkkkk!!!!!!!


I think i'm gonna be asking Paul for the advice that the speech therapists use to give him!!


The stuff was OK and almost makes me sound as if i may know what i'm talking about!!!!


I had a good time. Skye makes you slow down, because, mostly people are not in too much of a hurry. On a lovely day there is nowhere else you'd much rather be.
Well - not unless you wanted to buy new underwear and socks cos you have to go to Inverness to buy such things!!!


So, we're back, happy and almost counting the sleeps till our visit in August 


Now, where did i put my diary.......................................