Had a trip into town yesterday - was most impressed with a homewares and garden shop we found. At long last I have room for big mixing bowls in the kitchen cupboards… didn’t realise at the time how hemmed in and restricted I was feeling in the old house. Also located a really good little bookshop – we all got various delights. Charlotte has been busy working with her new Drawing Manga book – weve also read up on Manga and anime – all fitting in very nicely as we have been watching quite a few anime films lately (the schools free films week or whatever it’s called started something there). Dan’s been devouring ‘Darwin’s Origin of Species – a biography’ and weve all been fascinated by a little, locally published book on the history of local towns and villages. The last village we lived in was rather more interesting than we knew! This gem of a shop also had a rather well stocked art materials section, got some good pencils for drawing. Then we explored further and found a little Russian food shop which also sold magazines, comics, books and videos all in Russian. There is quite a large Russian community in the town now – can see that changing things which I think is good. This area needs a bit of new blood as it were. I do hope it was a real shop – a brothel was recently raided and closed down and it had been posing as a Russian shop… Well, I got some interesting pasta, bread and biscuits ;) Into Woolies with the wbd tokens and they got a book each there too, ‘Squishy Science’ and ‘I know what you did last Wednesday’ were their choices.
We stayed up and watched the eclipse – lovely clear night. Walked up to the loch in the moonlight prior to it. Really appreciating the clear skies without light pollution – was interesting to observe how much better we could see the stars as the moon got more covered in shadow. It was a lovely reddish colour. I did take photos but they are terrible so am not even bothering uploading them… just vague blobs.
A film we watched recently which is worth a mention: The Girl in the Cafe – very good and a bit different from Richard Curtis’s usual stuff. We had to research all about the G8 summit afterwards so it was even educational 
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