Le Chien has French Lessons

Coolie is off to stay with Michel and Magali for 24 hours just to brush up his French while son mere et pere are going to Pitlochry. (Again?) This is an early birthday treat for me. We are heading for House of Bruar for a bit of Christmas shopping and lunch before checking into the B&B. Tonight's theatre experience will be vastly different from last week's. It is a Scottish play, called 'Paras o'er the Barras', done by the Vale of Atholl Players, an amateur dramatics group. It will be interesting to see the standard as we have no idea really how good or awful our dinner theatre group and panto players really are when compared to other amateurs. We shall do some more Christmas shopping in Pitlochry tomorrow and then back home.

The floods in the lake district of England and south of Scotland are being described as of 'biblical proportions'. We have had a lot of rain here too...seems like it has been every day for more than 40 days and nights....but at least we have had no flooding in our area and none forecast. It continues to be very mild for the time of year, though we did have cold spell two weeks ago and the mornings were frosty when I was driving to Ballater school. Talking of which they have asked me to go in for two more days next week. That will be 5 this month in total and I will be happy to stop at that...a nice bit of pocket money for Christmas.

To be truthful, I don't have time to work, and I cannot imagine how I had time before. Between the panto, the Murder mystery, the secretarial load of the WRI, the Jacobite project and the rewriting of Peter Pan my days are filled before I even think about housework, shopping and cooking! And therein lies some good news. Remember the chocolate cake that cost me a small fortune to make last month? The one that I kept in the freezer for the WRI competition? Well the cakes were judged last night and I have been told that mine was 1st. Yahoo!(I couldn't stay for the judging as I had to go and be Tinkerbell.)With two firsts and a third so far this season, I am getting quite competitive and already planning next month's entry which is a Christmas table decoration. You will find out in due course about that.
Au revoir.