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This time, the sun broke through the clouds, light danced on the blue water and suddenly every view around us looked stunning. Even the prospect of going home without any fish didn’t seem bad, because we’d had such a great day outdoors.
Then, just as we were about to pack up, Claudie’s line began to twitch! With some help, she reeled her little trout in and didn’t have any qualms about bashing his head and taking him home in a plastic bag for breakfast. Poor Sam just about died of envy!
And just to prove what I was writing about last time (Claudie’s spooky sense of style) here is a snap of her fishing outfit which she chose then laid out on her bed for me to pack. Notice the co-ordinating pants and the leather hat which she got from the dressing up box and wore all day along with her sunglasses, making her the coolest chic on the loch. Although Sam’s slightly serial killer get up of combat jacket, aviator shades and baseball hat came a very close second.
All I can say about myself is that duvet coat with a life jacket? Well, it’s never going to be a good combo now, is it?
May 7
Sun! We have sun! For the second day in a row, we have blue skies and a great big golden orb blasting us with heat.
Obviously I couldn’t post a word yesterday, the first officially decent day of the year, because I was doing what every self-respecting Scottish person does at the slightest hint of sunshine: staying outside all day in the skimpiest summer clothes to be found in the back of the wardrobe. Yes, that slightly mouldering pile of things unworn since last August.
Now everyone, apart from me because I am a ‘Mediterranean olive’ type, is already burnt. Can you blame them?? No sun for six, seven months, then a full on, factor 20 blitzer of a day without the slightest warning and no one was going to go off to the chemist’s for sunscreen because they might have missed it. That’s how the weather is here: it could all change in the blink of an eye.
Today, the second official day of sunshine, I have been out and about noticing the alarming variety of confused summer outfits there are out there because no one has been summer shopping and summer clothes are not worn out in a season up here, believe me.