Thursday 05/01/06

Fantastic colour and cloudscape at sunrise, at 9.12 a.m.. The sun rises in a blaze of orange above the powerstation. The weather is comparable to yesterday, very windy and cool. Help mrs B's son and his girlfriend book seats on the plane for tomorrow morning at 9 a.m.. As it's Thursday, I go out for the wad of papers, and put in a film for processing. Unfortunately, I put in a spare (unexposed film), which I therefore lose. The birds have a great time picking up shells from the foreshore and dropping them from a great height to smash them and eat the contents. The birds show on the webcam. As the ferry leaves, a guest calls in to stay with his 5-year old son. They had been due to come yesterday, but were fogbound at Edinburgh all day. BA could not be bothered to transfer them the 45 miles to Glasgow. Horrible news about a man at the other end of the district who was jailed for 7 years for child abuse over a period of 40 years. In the evening, we get a double meal in the shape of borscht (Russian peasant soup) and mrs B's famous pastabake. At 9 o'clock, I join mrs B's son for a drink in the company of his cousin at the An Lanntair bar. An hour later, I return to Newton.