We covered a lot of miles over the weekend. John, Julie's youngest son who lives with his girlfriend Tracy in Newcastle, had a baby last Monday, Ethan James weighing in at 9 lbs. We set off on Thursday evening and stayed overnight in a hotel near Carlisle, the Wallfoot so named I guess as the last part of Hadrian's Wall runs through the back garden. Four poster bed and a great breakfast to set us up for the day for £50.
Then on to Newcastle and here is the proud granny, son and grandson.
Then it was four hours to Birmingham to stay with Julie's parents before driving into London on the Saturday to meet her brother on the completion of his 16 day, 1,400 mile cycle around the UK for charity and to prove that at a certain age he could still do it. That's David spraying the contents of a bottle of Cava around. Sam, his son is on the left with Jason and John the team coach and mechanic. Well done guys. We met them at the newly refurbished Kings Cross district of London, very trendy.
Back to Birmingham that evening before returning to Glasgow on the Sunday. I am always surprised by the amount of traffic down South, back here in Scotland on the M8 seems very ho hum. Saying that, bowling along the inside lane of the M40 keeping up with the traffic doing 85 and watching all the fine items of German engineering flying past in the other lanes is no way as scary as driving a Fiat Panda in Italy.
And finally some more news that I had an interview for a 2nd Mates position last week on our return from Sardinia, yesterday I had a phone call from HR to say that I was successful and in due course will be promoted. Triples all round please.
