My weekend trip to Scotland with Suzi B

Hoots Mon! And other such Scottish phrases which I have yet to hear a true Scots person utter. But I thought I would drop you a line to let you share in my fab weekend. 

I'm sure you're all familiar with Suzi B from California Style (see photo left). Well, we have become quite firm friends over the years, and as her husband Adam's family originally hail from the Highlands, they chose Perth to celebrate his 40th birthday! 

Colin and I flew to Edinburgh on Saturday morning and then caught the bus to the city centre. It took about three hours in total - which I thought was amazing considering it can take me that long some mornings to travel the 45 miles to QVC Towers. However, 50 minutes in a plane and it's like another world! WOW! I've never been to Edinburgh before but I loved it. 

Anyone suffering with hayfever?

I've had it since I was 13, and by jingo it's come back with a vengeance this week! I've been given tablets, Dimotap LA, to combat the itchy eyes, running nose and throat that feels like you've swallowed an entire dandelion clock... but it had the unfortunate effect of sending me to sleep, which wasn't helpful when I was trying to negotiate More Lane in Esher on my bike after school!

Or possibly more importantly, my O levels in the summer of '76. My eyelids became heavy at the point they told us we could turn our papers over... and I awoke to find the invigilator telling me that my snoring was distracting others in the exam!

But seriously, do ANY of you have any weird and wonderful remedies that have worked for you? I think the strangest I've heard is to rub petroleum jelly around your nostrils, which is supposed to catch the pollen before it gets into your nasal passages! I feel it could have the same disastrous consequences that wearing lipgloss used to have when I rode my bike to school. 

My accident prone week and the final of 'Britain's Got Talent'

Not sure how accident prone you are but whether it's my advancing years or just sheer carelessness, I do seem to be more now than I was before.

Last Wednesday having had a beautiful pedicure in readiness for my Pedpro foot file launch, I managed to stub my toe on the bathroom step and smudge my nail polish!! Then, in a very busy car park - while searching for my keys (which makes a change from searching for my car) - I was shocked to find I was the reason for frantic hooting! My trolley had slyly trundled away from me and into the bumper of a small car that looked like a Lock & Lock container on wheels... the driver was not best pleased. 

I have somehow managed over the last four days to tread on the cat, cut myself while shaving - I won't even go there - and then I inadvertantly sprayed sun protection under my arms instead of deodorant  - which I think even Alison Young would feel a tad too protective...