Chilled out in Scotland

Gosh, it seems like such a long time ago, but it was the last week in September that we hoiked ourselves up the M6/M74 etc to visit the outlaws in Bonnie Scotland.

We planned a week of nothing, and that's exactly what we did! I do believe we may have left the house a couple of times. Here you have the evidence - this is us wandering to the garden centre (round the corner). It had been raining but the sun was shining and I saw some leaves with drops of water reflecting in the sunlight. I tried to take an arty farty pic of them. Not sure if I got the focus quite right...but you get the idea!

We did a drive along a couple of nearby Lochs. Loch Earn and Loch Tay - the road alongside Loch Earn afforded us this beautiful view that had us hankering back to our NZ trip in 2007.

Needless to say, the hospitality afforded us by our hosts was second to none - mega food, biccies (home-made of course), wine, and firewood for Dan to burn! A perfect combination for R&R.

The only trauma in an otherwise perfect week was the fact that Michelle had been having a few 'heart flutters' where her heart rate would shoot up very high for an hour or so and then return to normal. This had happened a few years ago but seemed to have returned and happened on a couple of days whilst we were there. (The stress of us being there taking its toll, clearly!)

On the Friday, she went into work as usual, and the palpitations started again, this time continuing for several hours. She works in the local surgery, so, having mentioned it to one of the doctors, they sent her straight up to the hospital.

A million tests were done, and she was kept in overnight. The good news is that, apart from the rapid heart beat, her heart is as fit as a fiddle. Some tablets have been administered which *should* sort out the palpitations also. Fingers crossed.