Monday Sundries are otherwise known as ‘I’m rather brain dead right now and ill just update you on my life instead of writing anything’. Basically it’s the lazy blogging option, anyways…

Last week…

• On Saturday B + I went to the annual Edinburgh Canal Festival and raft race. It was the first year I hadn’t been ‘working’ at it, so it was rather nice to stroll through, check out the stalls, watch the races (ok people falling into the canal) and say hi to the folk I used to work with. The sun happily was shining on the boat trips and we enjoyed a 2 mile walk along the towpath to the Corn Exchange. It always surprises me how well the Union Canal is used, not just by us humans (1+2)
• Our reason for visiting the Corn Exchange was the Campaign for Real Ale’s (CAMRA) Scottish Real Ale Festival. It was the first time the beer festival has been held at the CE (usually it is the Assembly Rooms) and the set up was excellent. However, by the time we arrived there wasn’t much beer left, but luckily for me there was Harviestoun Bitter & Twisted, InveralmondOssian Ale and Orkney Atlas Nimbus Blonde to try (3). I grew up with CAMRA member parents and I am a huge fan of craft and real ales, strange for a girl I know, but we are a growing breed! I also loved the Caledonian Brewery Pipe Band (4)
• After a much needed nap, we dragged ourselves back out into the now drizzely evening for a friends birthday at Ghillie Dhu and danced the night away (ok part of, I’m getting old) to a funk and soul band. The music was so infectious that we decided there and then that our wedding wouldn’t be a wedding with out a band so we are now on the hunt…
• On Sunday B + I put another 3 miles under our belts (i’m trying to make mine tighter) with the Great Glen Mystery Walk by the Glencourse Reservoir in the Pentland Hills Regional Park). The rain made the landscape was more dramatic and moody for it (5+ 6) and the Glencourse waterfall was in full flow (7). Luckily the rain didn’t dampen our spirits! but ignore my non made up face! (8)
• After our 3 mile walk (what? we are building up to something bigger) we stopped off for chips and a pint at the Flotterstone Inn before home for mad cooking sesh (thai red curry, French onion soup and spag bol for tonights tea) before watching the EURO2012 final. Those babies at the end, my ovaries, my god!

This week…

I’ll be writing more about the wedding (finally!) visiting the Southern for a good burger, dropping by the Taste of Edinburgh Festival, eating lots of yummy food for Food Fridays and trying to squeeze in a haircut.

How about you? How was your week?

Miss S x