Across the road from our flat is a playhouse and we noticed that Kenny Rogers was playing. We really were not that interested in watching an American show while in Scotland but we decided to go anyway.

When we arrived, we had a very interesting lassie named Rosemarie sit beside us who gave us our Scottish fix in an American show. She was very interesting to listen to and to try and decipher what she was saying between her choice of words and her accent. We fell in love with her. After one of the songs, she said that she was greetin’ (greeting) after that song, which means that she was crying. She talked about her hooose (house) and going oot (out). She told me that she was sitting in a registered house all day and it was freezin’. I assumed that meant the house was air conditioned. We really enjoyed our evening and were glad to have gone just to have met her.  That concert was over at 10pm and I took these pictures at 10pm with my phone camera. While not the greatest, it was still fairly light out for me to do it. The sun rises at 4:30 and sets at 10pm this time of year.

The concert was great, Kenny at 72 years of age did a great show with an 8 piece band. While I only knew about 4 of his songs, Janet knew pretty well all of them. She saw him in concert about 37 years ago in Vancouver - years before her and I ever met.

Here is a poor recording, from my phone of Coward of the County

Janet In our Toyota Rental in England

Janet and I are in the UK for two weeks with our primary purpose to do a show in Edinburgh Scotland for our business. (www.calmnatural.co.uk, www.naturalcalm.eu, www.naturalcalm.nl )

We decided to go for two weeks because we could obtain free tickets through our visa points. CIBC had a special 15,000 points for a ticket to London versus the normal 40,000 points. We just had 30,000 so that was a sign for me to take Janet. Of course, you have to pay the taxes, which worked out to $900 for two tickets. Oh well, I guess even free is subject to being taxed.

We flew into London Heathrow on Saturday and decided to stay in a hotel for two nights to get over jet lag and to take a Sabbath day rest from our busy lives. With the 5 hour time difference, and leaving at midnight, you in effect miss a whole night of sleep so picking the first day of our trip to be a Sabbath rest is really more like a Sabbath day sleep.

On Monday, we travelled to our warehouse where we picked up the product for our show. We then spent the next few days travelling up to Scotland and visiting some of our customers on the way up.

Out of Order sign on a vending machine

We stopped in a Travel lodge and I saw a very odd sign at the hotel desk which it said,

Are plumbing cold water has a problem.
We have a plumber right on it.
Now, that meant that the cold water was not working. Now I am not one to profess my prowess for the English language but Are plumbing… instead of

Flat Front Door