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Brian Cunningham

Tuesday 20 June 2006

I managed to make the train after work and met a couple of friends in Stirling on Friday evening. My friend Martin had the use of a motor home for the weekend and along with another friend Steve we headed up to a campsite in Aberfeldy.

On the way we decided to stop off for supplies in the local Tesco. We left Steve in the camper to hold the fort. When Martin and I got back a few of the local kids had decided to climb all over our vehicle. It was like a scene from the local safari park with Steve peering out of the curtains wondering where all the noise was coming from as the youths hung onto the back or attempted to climb on to the roof. Deciding that it wouldn’t be the smartest of moves to drive off with the children still attached, a plan of action was soon hatched. Comments were made that because I was the one who worked in a school it should be up to me to come up with a strategy for their removal. I argued that if I worked in a zoo I wouldn’t be expected to deal with an escaped Lion on my own.

In the end I told the miscreants that I would call the local constabulary if they did not desist from draping themselves all over the bodywork. That seemed to do it and soon we were on our way being “waved” off” with shouts of “Max and Paddy, Paddy and Max”.

The rest of the weekend went well, Steve and Martin went Munro bagging on Saturday as I enjoyed the peace and quiet of Glen Lochy by Killin, and we managed to get back just in time to see the second half of the USAv Italy game whilst simultaneously bumping into some Musselburgh Grammar former pupils.

I headed to the doctor yesterday as the antibiotics I had been given previously for a leg infection had been of no use. I was issued with stronger stuff and told that if there is no change by Thursday then I will have to have a short stay in hospital where I will be administered even stronger stuff via intravenous drip. I hope it doesn’t come to that as I have to attend the first meeting of the SSDN mentors on Friday afternoon and want to be fit and well for that. These things always seem to happen at inconvenient times.

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