The South Highlands

Always liked that Highland hospitality thing that went on in The Munro Household. Everyone calling in for a cup of tea and not needing to knock. We probably didn't realise that it happened in our house too, until we were leaving and how much we had liked sharing it.
So it's feeling good to have Joe and Liam becoming part of the house-hold. Last night I tucked Meg into bed and she said she missed Finn being in the room, but it was ok because the boys were next door. We were all just about ready to fall asleep when a yowling started up outside. I recognised it straight away as cats squaring up to each other, but it's a pretty ghostly sound. We heard the boys moving around upstairs and it wasn't long before Meg came down and jumped into bed with us. ~She thought it was a baby crying. I told her what it was. Upstairs we heard the boys balcony door open, and then this tender voice (Liam) call out into the dark night "Are you alright?" Spook and I started giggling, and Meg ran up to tell them what it was. She found the boys fully dressed and about to go out and rescue what/whoever it was. They were quite relieved not to be caring for abandoned babies, but I loved it that they were heroic enough to try.
Karen and Dougie arrived this afternoon en famille. The boys went down to the lake to swim with the children after tea, along with Megs friend Michaela. Finn has still refused to come home, but I'll go and get him and Max tomorrow morning and we will all go out and have an adventure. (without Spook who has been dealing with big pooy issues all day, but has still managed to find time to go to the pub with Dougie). A re-arrangement of bedding has moved the boys to the living room and put Dougie and Karen in the balcony room, where we can rest-assured that, should the cats come back, Dougie will have a different method of dealing with them.