Day 1399 train trip to Edinburgh for Auntie’s 70th birthday lunch! 🥳🎉🎂🎁🎊

First of all I need to cover the psychic night last night.

So…, parts of the floor show actually blew me away. They hit the spot with everything they said to one girl, literally yes, yes, yes, yes, yes…. One of them being her name. That was pretty fascinating to watch.

I’ve figured that the key to a good psychic reading is… either they hit you between the eyes with everything they say… or you have to be on the ball with people that you know have passed. I fall into the latter category. Most definitely not on the ball…. I didn’t connect with anything the psychic said to me. Until this morning…. The first person who came through to me was someone who died of lung cancer or COPD, there was a gravelly woman’s voice speaking through her.

Only person I could think of with breathing difficulties was my Grandpa and she apologised but said it’s definitely a woman. I drew a blank. Until this morning. 😂

I wish I had clicked at the time as I would love to have heard what she might have said to me. The lovely lady who loved the spooky trees on my blog. 😘 I think about her a lot and miss her even although we weren’t that close. She was my mother in laws friend. Just wish I’d been thinking of her last night. 🤦🏻‍♀️😘

So the rest of my reading was pretty much the same… a young woman who died of breast cancer? No… did I know the names… Nancy, Mary, Margaret, Jane…. No but they could be relatives on mum’s side. Someone who died or diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis… could have been Nana without the rheumatoid… and did I know the names Robert, Ian, William and a whole list of other older names. Again kind of as Nana’s brothers were William and Ian but by then I was too disappointed to believe anything.

The tarot cards said that money was good for me right now, it’s coming from lots of places… I’ll take that… but I had to watch as someone might try to steal some of it or something from me.

I was also about to suffer from lots of stress and depression soon so I have to trust the universe, which I do anyway. I’m taking the last few weeks as being my low point and believe I’m already working my way back out of it. She also said I had to take care of myself.

So believe psychics or not, I’ve been there and done it with no real desire to rush back.

When you suffer from anxiety, someone quick firing questions at you, is a sure fire way of emptying your mind!!

I’m sceptical but that last floor show was just spectacular. She can’t have known any of that.

Another great sleep last night and up early to get ready for my overnight trip to Mum and Dad’s.

I have Auntie Marion’s 70th birthday lunch today at Swanston Brasserie on the outskirts of Edinburgh and I’m getting the train to Edinburgh Park where I’ll meet mum and dad. Craig has to work today as does my brother so it’s a smaller family contingent today.

Tomorrow we have Mum’s birthday lunch so I’ll stay over and Craig will join us in South Queensferry at Thirty Knots.

Oh forgot to show my haircut photo from yesterday… this was it before…

You can’t really see it here but I’ve two inches off it’s so much more manageable!

I had time to wander round Glasgow so took some photos… of course I did.

This is Glasgow Central Station.

This is a street 😂😂 think it’s St Vincent Street but my memory ain’t what it used to be on all things Glasgow. 😂

This is our famous Duke of Wellington statue being typically Glaswegian. The cones are a bit different to normal.

This is George Square. The centre of Glasgow city.

Glasgow Queen Street station is on George Square.

My train is leaving from the low level platform, not been down here in years! It’s only because I’m meeting mum and dad on the outskirts of Edinburgh so I can’t get the express.

Only NINETEEN stations to go. 😂

Actually as I type this there’s a lot less… I am the blue dot.

There’s my train heading away towards Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh.

Here’s the Brasserie on the slopes of the Pentland Hills.

So we had a lovely meal. I had cauliflower and red pepper curry with sticky rice which was just rice!

Mum had roasted butternut squash quiche.

Here’s my lovely dessert…. I had raspberry and pistachio semifredo for dessert. It was soooo good. I had no idea what semifredo was…. It’s like a solid semi frozen block (who knew 😂😂) with the pistachio and raspberries through it.

Auntie Marion treated us all to lunch which was really lovely of her.

After lunch we went for a walk up through the historic Swanston Village behind the Brasserie. Robert Louis Stevenson used to stay there. In all the years we’ve had family meals at the Brasserie, I’ve never seen the village.

It’s a lovely wee place with quaint, thatched cottages.

When you turn around and look back down the hill you get beautiful views over Edinburgh. Here’s Edinburgh Castle.

And Arthur’s Seat.

My first gorse bush of the year!

It was a lovely walk.

Back out to Penicuik and dad drove me round all the new housing estates beside them. Penicuik is growing fast!

We now have our feet up ready to do it all again tomorrow.

Happy Friday!

Stay safe everyone ♥️♥️♥️