Luke comes to Visit

The weeks have become rather mundane, with Steve sorting mail and Jeannie and Ronnie seeking employment. But this doesn’t put a dampener on our weekends where fun times are had - especially when Luke, Tim and Cathy come to visit.

Friday night saw a quiet night in while the Kwashis preserved their energy and finances for the arrival of their guest, Luke Brown. Luke arrived bright and early on Saturday morning, and brought with him some more nice weather. We met up with Clare in the West End to go to the Play, Pie and a Pint (P,P & P) at Oran Mor (an old church). What a novel experience to sit in rows with a pie and a pint in front of you and watch a play. The pints were good, the pies delicious and the play rather odd, but good none the less. After this we were taken to a traditional Italian ice cream parlour – YUM YUM! Clare is full of good ideas, after taking us to the P, P & P and the ice cream she drove us out of the city to some hills with a waterfall. By this time the weather had turned icy, but lo and behold, there were half naked natives plunging into the waterfall from insane heights (we have yet to comprehend the ways of the native)!

We decided that having Luke in the area was a good excuse to have a house warming dinner party, to which Clare and Dan were invited. They brought with them gifts of wine, glasses and literature – Hooray! A feast was prepared and a good time was had by all.

Sunday was Saltycracks day (not of the biscuit variety!). We were not in the mood for an expedition but decided to go on one anyway. It was raining and miserable, and the bus to Loch Lomand was no where to be seen, when Luke valiantly proclaimed – “Lets go to the sea and have a pint”. So we did.

We randomly selected a sea side town off the map, bought tickets, and sprinted to catch the train in an Amazing Race-like fashion. The town we selected is called Saltcoats, which soon became Saltycracks, and was a peculiar place to say the least. The beer was good and the locals were friendly – after initially suspecting us of being Mormons?! It was an afternoon full of laughter. On our arrival back in Glasgow Dan and Clare whisked us off to more pubs with live music. Fun times!

Monday morning saw Steve back at work (shame), and the other three off to Edinburgh for the day. It was beautiful, but very touristy – we even bumped into William Wallace…

Ronnie, Jeannie and Luke returned to find Tim, Cathy and Steve at the flat. They had come up from London with the remainder of Steve and Jeannie’s worldly possessions. We all went out for a scrumptious Scottish meal of haggis, rumbledethumps, champit tatties, stovies and bashed neeps. Haggis is a treat, don’t listen to the masses, they don’t know what they’re missing!