Tick tock

Sitting listening to the wonderful sound of the clock. Meg has just gone back to the lake with todays choice of friends. One has been taken away by her mother as, after two nights with Meg, she is now a little tired. So a new group arrived this evening for tea. One I now know well, and the other two I've never seen or heard off before today. There would seem to be a never ending supply of 13yr old girls here. This particular group are very noisy.
Finns social life continues to be quite quiet. He loves the social life at school, but doesn't seem to seek further friendship out of school. It was very breezy down the shore today so whilst Megs group turned up, there was no-one there that Finn knew. His group planned the trip in the heat of Friday, and Finn only went today as I went with him (after our little tennis game). Despite it being too cold for Finns friends, he swam and then melted into his bedroom in a sweaty mess, to emerge some time later with a blistered finger. He couldn't work out how it had happened until we'd explored all options and came up with a friction burn from rubbing the screen on his Nintendo DS too hard! He only wants to see Thomas out of school, but a few more friends might save the pads on his fingers.
Spook and he have gone fishing now and...........oh god, I can hear the girls coming back already. They're probably only half way up the street, but I can hear them.
I cycled round the loch to meet the Aspiring runners. Fantastic 20 minute cycle along the lakeside track, past patches of turquoise water and amazing houses. Mary (Forfar) turned up because she'd said she would, despite having a sore head, so that was sweet of her. We ran together (2 x 54yr old men today). She's 40 and arrived a year ago so we shared a lot of those 1st experiences. My feelings were tainted by my rasping lungs and aching legs, but Mary didn't seem to notice. It was just a wee 45 min jog for her. She exchanged numbers with me and seemed very genuine in her wish to meet up again.
(Meg has just confessed to me that she's tired. Putting a very brave face on it, but needing me to step in with a curfew reasonably early - it's going to be fun getting them all up and out so that the Munro family can go and help clean up Ruby Island tomorrow - one of the Aspiring Runners told me it was a good day out and a great way to meet people.)