Well, well, we’ll. Look who came back for more. It’s me.
As you may be able to summise, I did not write anything for two days. That means we’re on day five or six, depending on when you started counting. Whatever number it is, the actual day is Wednesday.
What happened since Sunday? Quite a bit and hardly anything.
Momday was our grand day out to Edinburgh. We had an early start by our standards, and had left the house by 9:30am. Most people wouldn’t think that was early at all, but we’re a pair of night owls, so we’re not even awake by then normally.
My ankle is sprained from a horrible tumble over it a few weeks ago, so Mark’s having to do all the driving for us on this trip. That means that when he’s feeling out of sorts, we do a lot of stopping instead of switching seats, which I actually prefer when there’s interesting towns to go to.
On the drive up to Edinburgh we stopped at a nice viewpoint to start with, then in Denholm and Lauder. The viewpoint was lovely and Denholm was cute. There was an interesting arts and crafts style house there with some text on, and I stopped to buy a postcard and some stamps for my nieces.
The stop in Lauder was our lunch stop, so we paused longer to eat the bacon sandwiches we’d packed and have a nose in a local gallery. I was surprised to be so impressed by the art in there as I’m usually not fussed on local galleries, but there were some really nice collographs by an woman whose name I can’t remember. Maybe it’ll come to me when I look back at my photos.
We also picked up some cakes at the bakery before we got back in the car.
Our first stop in Edinburgh was at the modern art galleries, which we’d never visited before. We decided to skip the second gallery because we had limited time, but spent a two hours in Modern One instead. I really enjoyed it there and it was nice to see some surrealist paintings. My favourite of the day was a recent painting by Flora Yukhnovich called In a World of Pure Imagination. It was big, abstract, and colourful, and if you look long enough you’ll see a flying cow.
After the gallery we headed in to the city centre by foot, mostly because the car park was free due to a broken machine. It was nice to see a different area of Edinburgh that we might not have seen otherwise.
We didn’t have much time to shop, so Mark went to buy some binoculars and I went into Lucy & Yak to see how their sizes fit me. I also swung by TK Maxx and Mark picked up a haggis pie for his dad’s birthday, then we made a swift exit to try and get back before dark.
Sadly we failed to get back before the sun had set due to the road closure on the A7, which cut us off right before Hawick and added maybe 40 minutes to our journey. We did manage to see a beautiful sunset and a viaduct before that though, so it wasn’t all bad.
We ate dinner at the silly time of 10pm, which definitely wrecked my sleep that night.
Tuesday was a much less eventful day, which I needed after Monday. I didn’t even leave our bedroom until after midday, then I spent most of the afternoon cutting out pages from the old magazines left in the sitting room. Hopefully nobody was precious about those because they’re missing pages now for collages I’ll hopefully make.
That’s pretty much all we did yesterday, just cutting out pages and watching a film with dinner. Mark chose Ready Player One, which I’ve seen enough to not watch properly, so I continued cutting paper out. We also put The Day Today on from the Ianucci box set I brought.
See, I told you it was a lot and not much at all.