Unexpected Anniversary!

As part of an important message I had to run for Madeleine  I ended up with Andrew Wilson in a small pub in Leith! Madeleine and I had been there several times before and quite like the Roseleaf pub. Especially sitting outside in the evening sun with a pint… Or maybe she prefers the food; not too sure!

Anyway Andrew was driving, so he ordered a coke, and I had a pint of IPA

A few minutes later the barman came up and offered us complementary cocktails from a teapot he had on a tray. (This is how they present their cocktails – they have a thing about teapots, etc) I accepted and he laid down a teacup with ice already in it and poured a fair measure of a very nice cocktail of a newly launched Malt I’ve already forgotten the name of, Grand Marnier, and something else.

Very Nice! So nice, Andrew asked for a little  – also served in a teacup. Next,  one of the other bar staff appeared with a plate of little salad sandwiches followed in a few minutes by a second barmaid bearing a tray of salmon mousse sort of stuff on toast!
Turned out that they were celebrating their 2nd anniversary as the Roseleaf, so we had picked just the right day!

All completely unexpected, but most enjoyable.
Then, unfortunately,  it was time to go home…

Madeleine’s Hippy Hippy Slice

Tomorrow morning Madeleine is admitted to the Royal for a much needed replacement hip operation.

This goes some way to explaining the lack of wonderfully exciting posts about trips and events we might have gone to; as her mobility decreased and her pain increased, non-essential trips, etc. have fallen by the wayside.

This also means that our Festival & Fringe expeditions will probably be greatly curtailed this year as recovery can take quite a long time.
We will make it along to some events, though, I’m sure!

And in the meantime the garden’s getting more attention than usual this year!