bowling with the dude

so, friday 24th sees us head into edinburgh for lebowski fest!
http://lebowskifest.com/lfuk.asp?

we then head to portobello for the biggest and best take-away pizza with extra chilli sauce as a topping! we sit and watch the kite surfers on musselburgh beach which inspires m, i glance over but i'm too interested in my tea to pay too much attention!

then onto a club in the heart of edinburgh town for a screening of the movie. what a nightmare!!! traffic ... parking ... the horrible, grotty reality of a club when sober (neither of us drinking much right now) means we head for home!

we had looked at public transport options from perth to edinburgh so that we wouldn't need to worry about parking/traffic/taking the van. now, given it is summer and tourist season; that the edinburgh festival is on; that this is our capital city you would imagine that public transport on a friday wouldn't be so difficult? then you imagine wrong! i searched for buses and trains and the latest we could leave edinburgh by public transport was about 10pm!!! unless we wanted to leave edinburgh about 11pm.go via glasgow and arrive in perth around 5am!

saturday is an altogether more calming day :) we drive to dalwhinnie to picnic in the sun. m sets of on his cycle while i read a while and collect grasses to dry. we meet up again in bruar for m to swap bikes and then to pitlochry where we miss each other - signage!!! from there we head to dunkeld and birnam where we have a lovely walk, collect leaves then drive home together.

we have a bbq dinner and my thoughts turn to the garden, quite keen to get things started for next year.

if you haven't already seen 'the break up' ... don't bother!

sunday sees us heading to st. andrews for m to have a kiting lesson, with landboard too! unfortunately i'm not inspired due to pmt and hayfever so read in the van for a while, only venturing out to collect urchin shells and meet tom kat (the cool surfer cat who belongs to the folk running the kite surfing lessons, he comes along to the beach with them - how cool is that?!)