The fish is still lingering. Feintly. The smell of smoked haddock is drifting through the hall, doing its best to make me feel guilty about skinning and eating it. It creeps up again as you come in through the front door, so I’m fighting back with more lavendar.

Hmmm…

What remains of it is in the freezer, and I was sorely tempted to get it out again this evening. I worked late and don’t have much food in. I’m in Birmingham tomorrow seeing Kylie with Epson, then the Outer Hebridies from Thursday to Saturday with One.Tel so it hardly seems worth buying stuff that’s going to go off. I’ve already frozen what’s left of my milk.

I’m finding it very difficult hunting down information about the Outer Hebridies online. Even the usually excellent Google keeps on throwing up the same three or four sites again and again and again. I guess there’s a gap in the market for good local information there.

Or perhaps they don’t have many computers.

I don’t know where I’m staying, or what time my flights are. In fact, I don’t even know how I’m getting there once I arrive in Glasgow. I know there’s a change of planes involved, but I can’t imagine they take large passenger planes to Stornoway. My PR contact sent a rather ominous email warning that I’d better like flying and changeable weather, but looking at the local forecast it certainly seems like it’s going to be a nice few days.

I’m not sure what to pack, so think I’ll take the kind of stuff I’m wearing now and hope for the best.

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