Article for 2012 Apr 08

2012

2012 Apr

Apr 08 Easter Sun(ny)

Today’s scheduled events consisted of going to Scotland (where we haven’t been since the dawn of the New Year) after breakfast and the associated ablutions, and saying hello to Granddad (whom we haven’t seen since the dawn of the New Year).

The journey to Scotland was uneventful (don’t I always say that?), save the sightings of a couple of kestrels hunting, and thus swooping down onto a tasty tree. Then a sterling service-station served lunch to us in Stirling.

The saying hello to Granddad was interesting, due in part to his proffering of several ovoid chocolates. It’s some pagan tradition, apparently, though pagans would not have had access to chocolate with their lack of transatlantic ferries. A lame excuse for excess, it seems. So anachronistic. Perhaps we’re all going senile. (But only tourists and the Egyptians/Sudanese are going see Nile.)