Coastline, coffee and cake!

D and Keith were up early and off to play golf at Glencruitten Golf Course, which is the home course of young Scottish golfer Bob McIntyre.  The locals are very proud of him and rightly so.

Mairi and I did not rush to get up so early but once up, we enjoyed a light breakfast and a blether in the lovely house.

The weather forecast hadn't been that great.  Windy and cold but at least dry.  Turned out the forecast was wrong and the sun shone and the golfers returned full of the joys (and exhausted, it's a very hilly course :-) but had removed layers as they made their way round the course.  The forecast wind didn't appear either.  It was warm in the sun.

Once they'd caught their breath we all headed out for lunch to Poppie's Garden Centre which has a wonderful coffee shop and a gift shop.  And what a treat it was!

Mairi and I were ooing and ahhhing at all the lovely things that caught our eyes in the gift shop, but hunger propelled us straight to the coffee shop.  D and I had the steak & garlic ciabattas, Keith and Mairi had paninis.  Absolutely delicious.  

Of course there was room for coffee and cake and that brought a bit of mirth.  When the waitress came to take our orders D ordered chocolate cake, Mairi ordered mint slice, I ordered Scottish tablet cake and Keith confidently announced he was going to have a sticky finger!  We all fell about laughing as the waitress said "do you mean a messy finger Sir?"  There's a pic of D's tiny slice (!) of chocolate cake and Keith's messy finger in extras :-)))

Lunch over we had a wander in the gift shop.  So many beautiful things.  Mairi bought a lovely salad bowl and little individual serving bowls to match.  I ended up buying nothing!  Yes you read that right!  Nothing!  But only because I have until the end of the week to explore other lovely shops and if I don't see anything, we can pop back to Poppies on our way home on Saturday as it's just outside Oban.

Once lunch was over we sadly bid farewell to Keith and Mairi.  What a wonderful time we've had with them here.  Short but sweet.  And as they headed off home to see how their painter was getting on (their house is in turmoil as it's in the middle of being redecorated) D and I headed back to Ganavan sands, but this time with my camera.  Managed to get a few shots of the dog walkers before the dropping temperature sent us back to the car.

Back to the house with plans for me to edit my photos, blip and crochet, and D to read his book, go over his round of golf, plan tomorrow's trip to Mull.....but alas once settled on the comfy sofas we both conked out for almost three hours!  That sea air definitely knocks you out!

Woke and had a cup of tea and a slice of toast before crawling to bed thinking I would never sleep...was out in about 10 seconds! 

It's hard work enjoying oneself! :-))

PS Extras of cake, the lovely entrance to Poppies, Ganavan sands, Dunollie Castle