Yesterday concluded with an Indian meal at the Lochnagar Brasserie, which we’d never been to before, and it was very good. One of the waiters had worked in Norwich at the Merchants of Spice in Colegate.

Both of us had a bad night afterwards, not knowing that lots of other people did too. We woke to the rather surprising Election result, and lots of people saying predictably silly things. So it goes on.

We had breakfast out today – at the Bean for Coffee. I had a full Scottish with too many beans. We then decided to drive to Pennan. The weather was spitting with rain at first, but at Pennan itself it was quite warm and the rain stopped. The tide was in, and we walked around, dodging a few flies, until the house martins ate them all.

We popped into the Local Hero hotel for a very nice cup of tea and took some pictures before heading towards home. We called at Crovie, just a couple of miles further west, where it was unaccountably  very cold and windy, then at Gardenstown, which we drove round but didn’t stop at.

We did stop briefly at Huntly castle (very pleasant spot) and then at a road accident on the A97. We turned round, and Dot navigated a successful alternative route.

After a cup of tea and snack in the house we walked up to the Hilton bar and had cocktails. Quite a trek. We got back in time to see Lethal Weapon on TV, which made slightly more sense than anyone on the news programmes.