Number 678 Guest House - the blog continues

Well, an eventful past few weeks.

For the first time we had football supporters staying with us and believe me we were very concerned. However, we were thrilled with our Rangers supporters. What a great bunch of chaps, here purely to have a good time and cheer their team on. Despite the fact that three of one party didn’t arrive home till 4am they were so darned considerate of other guests. When one chap went to bed and fell soundly asleep, rather than disturb him and of course other guests, his room-mate shared a room with two others in the party. It wasn’t till breakfast time and we let them use the spare key to open the bedroom door that they realised he wasn’t sound asleep, he just hadn’t come home, ha ha. Mind you chaps, you still haven’t returned the keys!!!!!

What a pity our guests couldn’t return back home to Scotland with a win under their belts. Ne’er mind lads, next time, eh???

Tom and I then went up to Scotland for a week. We had a super week staying just a short distance from Oban at a wonderful bed and breakfast, http://www.collaig-house.co.uk/

If any of you want a restful holiday with wonderful hosts then I would definitely recommend Collaig House. Julie and Jamie really looked after us. I seemed to have a mental block where my laptop was concerned but fortunately Jamie came to my assistance on more than one occasion, thanks Jamie

The best part of our break was the fact that we very rarely had a ‘phone signal. Tom has wanted to fly fish for so long that he decided to take a lesson at Inverawe, the picture says it all!! Despite not catching a single fish, on our last day and following just one hour tuition he caught three trout!! (The fish are lay on the rock) How sad that we can get so excited about fishing, lol, but they were beauties, we even weighed them: 2lb, 2lb 2oz & 2lb 4oz, it was brill. We gave one to Julie and Jamie and brought two home, one of which we had for dinner on the night we arrived home (it was delicious) and the other is in the freezer where it will stay until our next Jacobs Joint when we (Tom) can show off.

Once again Jonpaul made a great Basil Fawlty stand in, thanks again, son.

Our mini greenhouses have come up trumps; the lettuces are coming along brilliantly and today the leeks have gone in.

I’m really naffed, we haven’t had any frogspawn and therefore no tadpoles. However, today I saw our chicks for the first time paddling down the river after mummy duck. Only five chicks this year and the sad thing is that probably only two will eventually make it and avoid the other animals.

Well done the reds. Tom wa somewhat tired this morning at breakfast after staying up and joining in the excitement and Jonpaul was slightly hungover and was certainly not looking forward to his flight. Mind you, I think they would feel that the morning after was well worth the night before!!