All this and Waverley too ...

My grandsons truly have the luck: summer arrived today (well, it actually arrived last evening, and we made the most of that too) and we spent the bulk of the day on the beach. After the fire, the sausage-cooking (slightly disrupted by extremely large and terrifying insects that turned out to be wood wasps) we had the sea (I swam, briefly: it was stroke-inducingly cold) and the sand-castles ...

And then there came that unmissable thud of the paddles, and PS Waverley hove into sight, steaming up Loch Long on one of her cruises to the head of the loch and back. We'll be aboard on Thursday, all being well ...