Wind-Skimming.

Pentax K1000, Ilford HP5+, ISO 400

Freezy and really windy today! M and I went for a walk along the beachfront and were blown along from the beach ballroom to the Don almost… The walk back was considerably harder and my make-up had been blown from my watering eyes so that I looked like Cleopatra! Bent double into the bluster we couldn’t stop laughing as the car seemed to get further and further away the more tired we became. I simply cannot believe that it was safe for the windsurfers we saw to be out today!

We picked up a sandwich from Markies to eat at home before M headed off to Pittodrie to watch a football match as part of a stag do for his pal R. I can’t say I was jealous – it must have been c-c-c-c-cold in the stands.

I stayed at home and pottered about while the wind blew outside, then later met up with M’s folks at their house before heading along to Almondine, their new shop. It’s a macaron shop on Thistle Street, which will just sell coffee, tea and macarons, with occasional guest appearances by other French patisserie such as choux buns and financiers. M’s sisters and Mum make it all themselves and they’re hugely talented. In a year, they’ve been featured in wedding magazines and fairs, invited to provide macarons for the opening of Jamie Oliver’s restaurant in Aberdeen and bagged a large weekly standing order with another café in the city. Now they’ve opened their own space, and will be opening every day as a sit-in or take-away teashop. We arrived to find some of the other guests already there, and the shop looked great. The furniture still hasn’t quite arrived but everything else is fantastic.

We opened some bubbly and spent an enjoyable few hours chatting and eating nibbles (and macarons!) before a few of us began to get tired and head home. I arrived back a couple of hours before M made it in, so the bed was all cosy and warm for him.