Work, work, work.

DEAR SPOOK, I was working very hard today............ish. In fact, not at all. My 'boss' took me out for lunch in a beautiful lochside hotel where I had Stornoway Salad - lettuce, saute potatoes, mushrooms, Stornoway black pudding and crispy bacon - yum yum. Everything on the menu looked great. Delicious puddings too. The hotel is old and has been very tastefully redecorated. We were with another friend and had a great afternoon. Very reasonable prices too.
It is a change to not be loading you with guilt over my stressful life v's your life on the open waves, fuelled by bottles of beer (Finn said you were fine with the beer, and the one hand on the steering wheel because "look at all the open space, Mum!"). I had a lovely day.
There was a bit of running around tonight with maths lesson and rugby. Everytime I leave Meg in the house alone, she creates copious amounts of decorations to stick around the house. When I came home from a half hour trip to the rugby, there was a ceiling covered in paper chains. I am on a late shift tomorrow, so worry about our living space becoming restricted by the time I get home.
A box of your things arrived today and Finn was delighted to get his blanket back. I went to the Post Office to pick up another parcel and was chuffed to find it was my woolen coat from Wastebusters. I had left it at work for Mary to give to another tall colleague, but Mary and the rugby mother who had sold it to me (Naomi, Zac's mum) had decided it was meant to be on me, and on a Scottish rugby sideline, so had sent it at great cost. I put it on and it felt good. It's just that it is for cold, dry days, so I will need to count the number of days I wear it and then we will be able to retrospectively judge what kind of winter we have had.
You have 2 sleeps left, whilst we have 5 left without you. The fifth one is the one in Kingussie on Saturday, so it is 4 before you are home in Scotland. So that kind of implies 2 sleeps on a plane. Hmm, long flight, honey.
xxx