Red gang adventures at Castle Fraser today, complete with second picnic lunch of the week.

Later, my eldest went the science festival at our friends high school and was enthralled by, amongst other things, classification of skulls, the middle boy went to hockey, and I went out to the cinema with my pal.

We missed the film we wanted to see by 15 minutes so had to make alternative plans which included dinner, coffee and a walk along the beach before a later showing of the same.

'Tis a hard life.