Day 41: Bye bye countryside, hello Glasgow

Had a fabulous skip this morning whilst still up north in the Scottish highlands. Still achy and tired when I wake up so does take me a while to mentally make myself stretch and get out there. A bit of a bitter-sweet feeling as I am skipping along in the surprisingly warm weather (just for that hour mind you before it started to rain again) as we decamped back to urban Scotland this afternoon. The sound of the bees and wasps in the flowers along the road were very loud. The smell was just unbelievably fresh. Only a few cars... there had been tonnes on Sunday as people wended their way to church. Took some pics for Tracey of my route which I will put up on Flickr so that I can remind myself of the idyllic route I took for the past 4 days. Not sure how far I travel on my skips, but must be about a kilometre. I will really need to learn to skip in one place as some of the other destinations I will be going to this summer will not be conducive to skipping the distance.

Still need to do my exercises today, but psyching myself up for that a little later.

Dinner last night I cheated a bit, but very consciously. My 21-year old nephew cooked us all a beautiful roast dinner. Had a tad more roast lamb than my allotment, and since everyone else also took a generous helping I didn't have enough of the roasted vegetables to complete my dinner requirement. As I desperately wanted a roast potato, I added a half roast potato to my helping. Lovely conversation, a long session at the table and then fresh raspberries and strawberries. Because I added a bit of cream to my fruit, I left out my egg white. I also had 2 small glasses of red wine. It was one of the best dinners that I have ever had, and since I know that I will have to wait another year to see my nephew again, and even then he may not be in a position to cook for me, I ate my extra lamb, my half a roast potato and drank my 2 glasses of wine with the utmost joy. For me veering off the PCP path for that was done on my terms and sooooooo worth it, so there was absolutely no guilt whatsoever.

Busy few days coming up in Glasgow.