Infuriating

I don 't know that I can accurately describe the whole of today as "infuriating" - some of it was merely frustrating, or depressing - but the title refers to the weather which is neatly summed up in the collage: two views taken from the same spot in Kilmun on the Holy Loch, the one facing east towards the blue sky, the other west into the weather that was steadily approaching us, at the same time. We'd left the house in the more promising sunshine, shopped briefly for Ayrshire potatoes (!) and driven on hoping for a cheerful walk along the shore. Instead we were reduced to sheltering in a children's play area hut ...

The morning was a bit blighted by getting things done. I won't have time for my usual early Thursday shop, so decided to go after coffee today and found the shelves looking as if the Harpies had descended and snatched, among other things, almost all the potatoes except for big bags of the tasteless White Potatoes. I can 't believe we live where we're looking at Ayrshire and yet find it so hard to buy Ayrshire potatoes: they can't sell them all, surely, to the Canary Islands? I had an entertaining conversation with a German woman - who apparently teaches in Tighnabruaich - on the basis of which was the best broccoli; we ended up talking about the benefits to their future academic success of bringing up children to be bilingual. 

I got home, disgruntled, to find that the BT engineer had at last come to install our new router or whatever that links us to the new EE- operated set up. My phone keeps trying to find the old one - I shall have to sort that - but apart from the intrusive size of the new box I can't see any difference. I've not tried my so-called land line yet ... (except that it's no longer a land line).

I had a nostalgic conversation on the way into the Co-op with a couple, even older than us, who recognised me as being a teacher - their daughter had played in the band, so Himself remembered her. We must be turning into locals right enough. 

The day ended with online Compline, taken by one of our church Lay Team. I think we're all putting a brave face on at the moment; the two of us sang the office hymn and we didn't chat afterwards, which is always good. 

Now I'm rushing to finish this before midnight and the backup starting ...