Just Apeing the Last Post...

You Costa Rica people think you're so special! You're not the only ones to see monkeys! These are from when Archdeacon Dhilo took me to Ravanella Falls. The falls are quite nice, and the hills around are incredible!

Heathrow

This is going to be brief because I am running out of pound coins for the internet, and because I already posted on my own blog. Anyway, I am here in Heathrow on a long, long long (10 hour) layover, waiting for my flight to Colombo. The flight here was fine - TVs in the seatbacks help an awful lot! Two movies and some TV later and the flight goes by pretty quickly. I won't be sorry to be settled in Sri Lanka though.

Windy Yett at last

It's been a long couple of days. But that is travelling I guess. Everything has gone pretty smoothly, except that after we picked Jude and Mom up at the Glasgow airport we got delayed by probably an hour by an accident that stopped traffic. Geoff seems to have got back into driving on the wrong side all right. It was dark when we got here (because of the delay) so he found it stressful navigating the narrow roads in the dark. After we got our stuff in Geoff and I drove into Falkirk to find a grocery store so we could have supper. Even with the GPS we rented we got off track a couple of times. Geoff is amazing to drive a strange vehicle in the dark on unfamiliar narrow roads.
Windy Yett is nice. After you turn off the main road the road gets narrower and narrower until it stops at the farm. So we feel quite away from everything. It feels like an old farmhouse but has all modern conveniences and I think we will be comfortable here.
Thanks to Jude and her points we stayed in the Hilton in Glasgow which was very nice. After supper we stopped at a pub and lifted a pint (Geoff) and a half (Theresa) of Tennants for Tim.
The rest of the badgers arrive on Wednesday. We are picking them up at the train in Falkirk.
Oh yes, if people from work are reading this: Jenelle and I were wondering about how they celebrate Remembrance Day here. It looks like the Sunday before Nov. 11 is the day they mark. When we were at Heathrow Airport on Sunday waiting for our next flight, there was an announcement at 11 a.m. that there would be two minutes of silence. Everyone in that huge place just stopped eating and walking and talking and there was two minutes of complete silence. Then The Last Post came over the intercom and after that everything resumed as before. It was very moving.

Windy Yett at last

It's been a long couple of days. But that is travelling I guess. Everything has gone pretty smoothly, except that after we picked Jude and Mom up at the Glasgow airport we got delayed by probably an hour by an accident that stopped traffic. Geoff seems to have got back into driving on the wrong side all right. It was dark when we got here (because of the delay) so he found it stressful navigating the narrow roads in the dark. After we got our stuff in Geoff and I drove into Falkirk to find a grocery store so we could have supper. Even with the GPS we rented we got off track a couple of times. Geoff is amazing to drive a strange vehicle in the dark on unfamiliar narrow roads.
Windy Yett is nice. After you turn off the main road the road gets narrower and narrower until it stops at the farm. So we feel quite away from everything. It feels like an old farmhouse but has all modern conveniences and I think we will be comfortable here.
Thanks to Jude and her points we stayed in the Hilton in Glasgow which was very nice. After supper we stopped at a pub and lifted a pint (Geoff) and a half (Theresa) of Tennants for Tim.
The rest of the badgers arrive on Wednesday. We are picking them up at the train in Falkirk.
Oh yes, if people from work are reading this: Jenelle and I were wondering about how they celebrate Remembrance Day here. It looks like the Sunday before Nov. 11 is the day they mark. When we were at Heathrow Airport on Sunday waiting for our next flight, there was an announcement at 11 a.m. that there would be two minutes of silence. Everyone in that huge place just stopped eating and walking and talking and there was two minutes of complete silence. Then The Last Post came over the intercom and after that everything resumed as before. It was very moving.