A blog a day #4 - a touch of wind

A bit of a late morning getting ourselves up and out. Partly my fault I guess and annoyed as I wanted to do a wee trip to the Kelvingrove Art Galleries but if I don’t get us out before midday I can’t face driving in to the city.

So we went to Whitelee Windfarm instead, which provided both a strong breath of fresh air, some exercise and a chance to get the kids off their screens for more than 10 minutes. It was blustery, the kids refused my instructions to wrap up and subsequently looked frozen but my attitude is to let them learn the hard way if they don’t want to take advice. The attitude infuriates me and I have to bite my tongue. I do wonder what the balance is between just being a parent who dictates and being a parent who encourages learning. I’m sure there is a balance and I’m just not getting it.

I had a few great non alcoholic beers into the evening. The quality of AF beers has come so far in the past couple of years. I had the Joker and Caesar Augustus AF beers by Williams Bros and the latter was probably the best I’ve had so far. Also had a couple of Guinness’ as well. All the pleasure of a nice cold beer without the dull head in the morning. No better for my belly mind you so I can’t just use the AF part to justify a bad habit.

As a family I was quite happy that we managed to get the kids to sit and watch the first part of the 2024 Royal Institution Christmas Lecture. It was all about how the body deals with food intake. The lecture struck the right balance of speaking to children while also being scientific and engaging for adults. It really feels like a format of learning kids should be getting in school. I don’t have much faith in Scotland’s ‘curriculum for excellence’ to be honest.

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