The director attended and took questions afterwards, mostly in English. I wasn’t particularly impressed when he said that squash was a man’s game which is why the 2 protagonists were male (I play squash every week, as do many women!) and that if he were to do a similar film with 2 female leads then he’d have to choose a more feminine sport! Mm, not being a bit sexist there, are you Lionel?
Killin hill walk
On Saturday I went on an impromptu hill walk with some friends from work (I was supposed to meet up with an old friend in Glasgow for a film and dinner but she couldn’t make it at the last minute - I forgave her though since she had to go to a funeral). There was gorgeous scenery on the drive up (which took rather longer than expected since the driver was a bit nervous and drove mostly at 40 mph so it should have taken 1 hour but took 1.5).
Climbing the stile: me, Sergi, Toni, Ailsa and Nicki
It was a short walk at 2 hours starting at Killin followed by a late pub lunch of fish and chips to replace all the calories. We climbed a small hill called ‘Sron Na Clachan’ (Nose of the Village) just behind the village. We were lucky with the weather – sun, a bit of cold wind at the top – and had beautiful views of snow-covered mountains and a buzzard soaring on the updrafts. Michael was glued to the Formula 1 qualifier at home which is a shame cos he would’ve enjoyed the scenery (if not the bizarre and surreal conversations over lunch)!Killin is on the edge of Loch Tay and is surrounded by stunning mountain scenery - it's about 35 miles north of here. There was barely anyone about in the village – the streets were empty (but there was rugby on and anyway, it can’t have a big population). You can see a live webcam of Killin at http://www.killin.co.uk/ although it mostly shows the main road through the village (there is usually also an unflattering photo of some locals too - ah, village life)!
View of Loch Tay from the peak of Sron Na Clachan Michael and I got up early (for us) for a game of badminton on Sunday morning (we were expecting a plumber at 11am who, of course, turned up an hour late after we’d purposely changed our court booking from 10am to 9.30am in order to be back on time) and then remembered quickly why we stopped playing at the uni. We were sharing the hall with 30 or so small boys practising their football skills and wandering across our court whenever they were led by an adult or wanted to go out for a pee/ drink/ snack. It was the adults’ fault since they had told them to come around our side of the curtain and walk past our court rather than walk past the other boys who were doing their training because it would disrupt their training! Never mind our game of badminton! As you can imagine after the 7th or 8th time of someone wandering across our court I lost my temper at their arrogance! I think we’ll go back to just playing squash- at least you get the court to yourself!
How many landlords does it take to change a washer?
The plumber was coming to change a washer- yes a washer!- cos our landlord insisted he’d do it himself in order to save money but then admitted he didn’t know how. He then made us wait 2 days and through 2 missed appointments with a tap leaking litres of water by the hour (and it would’ve been hot water if we hadn’t turned down the thermostat) before it was finally fixed! We couldn’t even turn the water off at the mains cos the tap was too stiff. Such is the life of a tenant…
Almost there! Sergi, me, Toni, Ailsa & Cath - all in red!
I then spent the rest of Sunday, which was a beautifully sunny day, preparing a presentation for work – not my preferred use of a lovely Sunday but it had to be done –at least it’s over with now. I presented today (Tuesday) to people at Stirling and 3 video conferencing sites –I had more audience members via video than I did in the room! It was about antenatal screening and termination. I spoke for almost an hour so it was quite long! I hope I didn't bore them - they were too polite to say if I did!
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