“Disappointment lurks” as Neil Young sang.
Flushed with our recent success we had a short list of three cruises we wanted information on, so Scamp phoned P&O to find out the situation with flights before we made a final decision. After a bit of a wait, she was told that there were no more flights available from Glasgow or Edinburgh, in fact there were none available from Scotland. However, she could offer us a flight, not with their usual Jet2 provider, at £490 EACH! She did seem surprised when Scamp said a decisive “No thank you”, but was quickly back on the script when she asked how we’d like to be contacted by P&O in the future. I’m glad it was Scamp who was speaking to her, because I’d have given her the standard ‘two word answer’. The second word is “Off”. Almost £1000 for the flights alone.
That put a damper on the day, but after lunch we went for a walk to the shops to get something for tonight’s dinner that actually turned out to be tomorrow’s dinner. It was quite pleasant walking down to the shops with the warm coloured sunlight glancing across the trees. After we walked back, I took the camera for another walk round St Mo’s, but although I got a lovely sky shot, there was nothing else in the tank.
The reason that tonight’s dinner became tomorrow’s dinner was because, after some discussion, tonight’s dinner became a Golden Bowl standard. Chicken Chop Suey with Fried Rice for Scamp and Special Chow Mein for me.
After dinner, I still had to find a Picture of the Day. I’d seen a bloke in Flickr doing some interesting monochrome shots of dried leaves and when I found our poinsettia had lost another two leaves I decided a photo of the one remaining desiccated leaf would fit the bill. Instead of reducing it to mono, I kept and enhanced the magenta colour of the leaf, photographed against a black neoprene background. It worked very nicely, and I had a PoD!
Tomorrow looks like a good day, maybe even better than today. We’ll see if the weather fairies are correct.