2023-12-20

Dropped Shruti to the city centre for her doctor's appointment and headed to work. The first half was pretty much entirely meetings, and I left a little past noon to pick Shruti up from the city centre, head home, and work from home for the afternoon. Shruti picked up a "Christmas dinner" toastie from the Christmas market and packed it very nicely for me to eat at home. It's her favourite thing to eat at the Christmas market and I think it's now mine too! Left home at about 5:30pm to head to Dundonald - we met Ruth for bowling at Dundonald Ice Bowl. I played terribly! It turns out that whenever I bowl, the ball swings towards the left, and I cannot control it. I maanged to figure a somewhat passable strategy of using the heaviest possible ball, but even then, I'd usually just miss completely and either overcompensate or undercompensate for the spin and get the ball in either gutter. One whole hour of bowling and I'm no better now than when I started! We then headed to Cyprus Avenue for dinner and Nichola joined us there. It was Ruth's birthday and when Shruti mentioned it to the waitress (who coincidentally was also Shruti's friend!) we were treated to a glass of complimentary prosecco and some bread-like thing that was somewhat like foccacia. Nice! Dinner was good too, but we were absolutely stuffed thanks to the 3-course offer. They took forever (45 minutes to be precise) to bring our bill once we finished, so we were back home at almost midnight! Just peeled off our clothes and jumped straight into bed.