The waiting game...

We were in early to do the cleaning this morning which wasn't pleasant. We're definitely back to earth with a bump!

It was my Dad's birthday today so I gave him the bottle of Singleton whisky I'd bought and cards and gift vouchers from the kids. We decorated his desk and chair with balloons and streamers and he was really pleased!

Today's been fairly quiet on the work front and guess what? We didn't complete so it felt like we were waiting around all day and then nothing happened. I can't begin to describe how frustrating this all is and how it's affecting us all now. My dad had a migraine last Friday when he went to Booker and one of the cashiers had to write the cheque out for him which is very worrying. I don't know how much longer we can stand this uncertainty and stress.

Sophie and I left at 4pm and we went home to potter about in the garden with the cats. Archie keeps coming in covered in little burrs which stick to his fur so I have to keep combing him to remove them all. Heaven only knows where he goes to get them all! Sophie's also concerned about a cat that's appeared who keeps threatening poor Monty. He was attacked by this cat the other day and received a bloody nose.

We picked Mike up from the barracks in town at 7.30pm and he was tired, dirty and badly in need of a sleep! As soon as we got home he disappeared into the bathroom and didn't emerge until he was sweeter smelling, thank goodness! He spent most of the evening attached to his iPod and we discovered that he'd met a girl on the camp called Millie. Ahhh!

By the way, on the news this morning we saw that it had been Scotland's coldest and wettest summer for thirty years and the patches of snow we thought we saw were exactly that...snow! It's unheard of for snow to still remain on the mountains during the summer but this is what's happened this year. Typical!