Glasgow, EH...

Finalizing the weeks ahead, the nostalgia tour continues with confirmation of cheap accommodation at the Euro Youth Hostel on the Clyde for a few nights.  The right call, with opportunity for work and short travel to Edinburgh, 22 years on from the initial arrival and 12 since KBJ and Eli's win at Dallas.  Appropriate timing for return, as the next 10 years promise other great changes.

Assuming we get across, of course.  So much has been booked, all hinging on the outcome of Monday morning's appointment.  What odds of having it set down prior to the miscarriage, only not to cancel and see it through a day before M's departure for Zambia.  The MSI application has been mailed, we'll see in future so many things...

Have had this post in draft for some time.  Through two trips to the Parker Street SDA, many toilet visits in which the right colour emerged every time, stinking farts, and mood swings over drunken antics and terrible massages and pyjamas that were not on sale.  Unfathomable in ways to think that the first four month visit is ending in about 30 hours, and in less than 48 we'll both have left the continent.

Much in the balance it is hard to put into words.  The church experience in this time has been unique, recognition of just how powerless you are at the hands of fate, in such a time of waiting.  But in this unexpected way, the plan (if there is one) appears to have some shape.  The appreciation, the magic, the wonder, the bonding heightened all the more.  Grand-Pre, Evangeline, and Acadie.  The boat again for another sunset drift.  The detection at Nick's on account of the second hand smoke.  The recent classical records and Bloom purchase leading to G.K. Chesterton's Crazy Tale today before the Nshima.  The Mozart hunch at the back of the mind seems right after all.  Will be fun to start googling those items rather than the PR and early symptom checks.  Tomorrow morning we wait for reassurances and information.  Let's hope the news is good, and the next post drops from the Green Man of olde.

Amen.