We had arranged to meet our friend J at the John Buchan museum in Peebles this morning, so we had no need to hurry. The SW went for a run, and came back very out of breath - I should have sent him out to cool down properly, but was about to go into the shower, so didn't.
It was a pleasant walk along Peebles High Street to the museum, which was very interesting. John Buchan, as you probably know, was the author of adventure stories like "The Thirty-Nine Steps", "Prester John" and many more. He was also a diplomat, and ended up being ennobled - he took the title Baron Tweedsmuir - and made Governor-General of Canada. Unlike most Governors-General, he really wanted to know what life was like in the country, and to try to unite the disparate peoples - First Nations, English-speaking settlers and French-speaking ones. Sadly, a lot of his recommendations were ignored by the then government - his role being purely advisory - but he appears to have been much respected by the First Nations. His sister, Anna, who wrote under the name O Douglas (many of her novels being set in a fictionalised Peebles called Priorsford), is also commemorated.
After we had seen the museum, we crossed the road to the Eastgate Theatre, where we had lunch in the café - our friend is a trustee of the theatre and has been very involved in it. It was a delicious lunch - I had a jacket potato with bacon, brie and cranberry, and the other two also had jacket potatoes with bacon and other things. Then we walked back to the motor home along the Tweed, which was also a glorious walk, except that it began to rain. We said goodbye to our friend, who took a short-cut across the cemetery to where she was going, and headed off on the relatively short drive to the Strathclyde Country Park and the campsite here. Which is all right, and we have a pleasant pitch near the sanitaires, with EHU and everything. The Satnav, for some reason, took us off the motorway (only a very short bit of the drive was motorway - most of it was lovely country roads) and literally all round the houses to get to the campsite! We do not know why.
Plus the fridge has taken to randomly beeping whenever it gets very wet outside - we think it is affected by condensation, but have no idea how to deal with it. It did it the first full day, and then stopped, but started up again now. We have had the heating on, which may have settled it.