Up The Farway Tree

Pandas and Pampering

I am just back today from 2 nights at Stobo Castle with mum :-) We arrived on Thursday evening after I finished work and picked up mum - that night was just for relaxing and then we had a lovely dinner. On Friday we had a facial in the morning, then relaxed and had lunch, before a foot massage and then using the spa facilities. Then it was time for more food! This morning we had a back massage and then headed home after lunch. You basically float about in your dressing gown all day - for breakfast and lunch, although you have to get dressed for dinner. At dinner you share tables with other guests, which I don't mind if I am in the mood for chatting but sometimes it is quite tiring making small talk with random different people at each meal. Mum of course insists on striking up conversations, even if someone so much as glances in her direction! I did use the opportunity on both evenings to do some organ donation work, making sure everyone at the table was signed up to the register and answering questions haha! How we managed to end up talking about this two nights in a row with two different groups of people I don't know, but at least I was doing some advocate work while being pampered!

Seb went to stay with dad because Andrew was working extra hours. Seb was being quite huffy when he saw my bag packed but was quite happy to be left with dad for his pampering weekend - which involves lying on top of dad snoozing in the chair and then dad taking him to the men's group with him on Friday night. I guess Seb is male but not sure in what other way he qualifies for attending such a group :-)

I finished the Giant Panda from last week and am rather pleased with the final result! It is rather massive but it is a big wall, so I think it works well. A slightly random subject matter but I am not really known for being mainstream.

Panda with little panda for scale....(the letters are Chinese for Panda Bear, although I will probably discover it actually says chicken noodles or similar)

Lastly I have to leave with some sad news that another CF friend lost his life waiting on transplant.  David was a friend of Team Glasgow and was to become the 4th member after his transplant.  He had been waiting since last year but the call did not come in time and he sadly lost his fight last week. Kirsty and Victoria were able to represent us at the funeral and organise some beautiful flowers from ourselves and some other CF friends.  Another reminder of how many people don't get the chance I got, and another reason to keep spreading the word.  Keeping his family in my thoughts. x