We Are Enjoying Ourselves*

Despite lashing rain we enjoyed a walk on Tralee Beach with our friends from North Connel. * Our family motto of cheerfulness under severe weather.

We had driven up through fog and rain on roads awash with runoff caused by a sudden thaw but had no real  problems. We stopped at the Real Food Cafe in Tyndrum for coffee and excellent scones to break the journey.

Also in the collage is the viaduct in Glen Ogle as we passed, the snow being much deeper from here on. (In fact the trip had been postponed from Friday, when the snow had been forecast, as we decided that caution was the better part of valour stupidity).

The other photo is of my friend under siege by their dog. This is Peat, successor to, and son of, Moss. He is very friendly and we were duly welcomed in a similar fashion but as yet he has little sense of his duties as a sheepdog. Not in evidence is the complex scaffolding of metal inside his face, following an altercation with a motorcar, as he has little sense of those, either.

Our return journey south was rather longer than anticipated; being turned back from the access to Connel Bridge due to a rockfall by Lochawe blocking that route, also closing the railway line, we were redirected north by Appin and Ballachulish through Glen Coe, the spectacular scenery invisible in the dark, a diversion of some 85 miles.

We made it back to the Real Food Cafe a few minutes before closing time, for a quick and excellent plateful of fish and chips, half of which we brought home for later, arriving home under a starlit sky of Orion and the Plough, to be welcomed home by Bramble who had had a long day alone.