We went to C's mother yesterday afternoon in Carnoustie (via Arbroath, picking up another bear in the process!), and went out for a meal to the Panmure Arms, Edzell last night. Although it's a timing point for local buses, and I've passed there often enough, I'd only been in once before - almost five years ago, when I popped in for a quick drink between the 31 arriving and the 30 departing. Anyway, lovely stuff last night.

Getting ready to leave Farnell for the day, and drive south.

p.s. For those attempting to access the Photo Skip, it's still down from yesterday (company wide outage it seems), there are various rumours about the state of the company, but they are insisting that it's just a technical glitch. I keep an open mind, but time will tell.

We've just stopped at Cairn Lodge, Happendon Motorway Services, in South Lanarkshire. The site is one of a lodge formerly built as the entrance to Douglas Castle in 1851, but has been in use as a private services since 1993. Caroline admitted to being "pleasantly surprised" at the quality of the food on offer!

Now heading through South Lanarkshire, wih the laptop out on my lap, new iPod plugged into the stereo, and a fair bit in the back!

(A problem initally though as the windscreen wipers took a few hours to defrost!)

We've just left Tinsley Shopping Precinct after a quick impromptu stop for a bite to eat, and meeting up thebustocrookes , and his lovely wife, Caroline (trust me on this!)

So, we're now on the M1, heading south, in South Yorkshire. Just over two hours till we get home, according to SatNav .

Back, within the last hour!

The car has done 2,007.9 miles this trip - plus the few I did on Hogmanay in the bus.