Wedding Weather

Trossachs Church

Ben A'an

Ben A'an and Loch Katrine

Rowan Tree in Kirk grounds

It's wedding time this weekend with our second daughter getting married.  As well as all the usual organisational rituals, we decided to redo the guest bedroom, the downstair's bathroom and porch in time for the wedding.  Surprisingly I managed to complete the bedroom last week but the tiler and plumber are going to the wire on the bathroom, although we got the door back on today and the porch is to be tiled and finished tomorrow.  I think the paint will have to wait until next week.  If only weddings were VAT free under the coalition family policies we could have included the work as essential wedding preparation.  But, as we know, say wedding and there is an additional premium of 50% on the price anyway.  One of the more interesting suggestions as we sat outside this evening and watched the butterflies graze on the cosmos was to catch some and release them at the wedding but Wayne Rooney did that so we'll not bother.

The best news is that we are still basking in an Indian summer.  We are breakfasting and lunching outside every day and  hoping it holds for Saturday.  The service will be in the Trossachs church which is gloriously located overlooking a loch and surrounded by mountains.  My task today was to take Gregor to the church to show him his usher duties but he had already spent 4 hours walking in the hills.  We met at the foot of Ben Venue and then climbed Ben A'an which overlooks the church so that he could get an eagle's eye view of the church.  We went to the church as well afterwards to look at the parking and decide where the ushers should stand - by the south facing vestibule looking up to Ben A'an seemed the best place. Job done.