It's 0530 on Monday 27 July 2009. The sun rose 20 minutes ago although it's been light for ages. It's a warm morning (for Lewis!) at 13 deg with a mild southerly breeze. It's cloudy with some vague promise of a glimpse of sun. It's damp and there are showers spattering the horizon in several directions. It's a fairly typical July morning on a Scottish Hebridean Island. So why am I telling you this? Because my Brother, CJ alias Scriptor Senex, and Jo alias Wife Who Loves Tea have just set off on their journey home to the Wirral on Merseyside. Firstly, however, they have to catch the ferry from Stornoway to Ullapool where they arrive on the Scottish mainland 2 hours and 40 minutes across The Minch.
CJ's been here since the middle of May. It'll be very odd without him. We get on rather well. There will be no one with whom to share the crossword over morning coffee. No one to remember to switch off the stream into the garden pond at night when I forget. No one to whom to say "Please will you remind me to....." And when I come home on Friday from my last stint of treatment in Glasgow no meal will be waiting for me. The house will be empty.
Travel safely both of you.
CJ's been here since the middle of May. It'll be very odd without him. We get on rather well. There will be no one with whom to share the crossword over morning coffee. No one to remember to switch off the stream into the garden pond at night when I forget. No one to whom to say "Please will you remind me to....." And when I come home on Friday from my last stint of treatment in Glasgow no meal will be waiting for me. The house will be empty.
Travel safely both of you.
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