After A Telephone Call To Steve,

yesterday you may remember a friend of ours needed help, 

 

it was Steve, on Saturday after a 5 kilometre Parkrun, which he regularly does, he suffered a heart attack, although he is a regular runner, it is thought he competed too hard, he was taken to Queen Elizabeth Hospital where I caught up with him, after being examined it was decided that it would be better to move him to King's College Hospital, so into an ambulance with blues and twos, after arriving into ICU within the hour he had been examined again with all manner of monitors and was wheeled into the theatre, at which point Kai arrived he had put off telling her until he was sure what hospital he would be staying at, as he was wheeled out of surgery he was awake and continued to stabiles in the afternoon, the doctor had fitted 3 stets, as the hospital only allows one visitor per day I left, the news is that the doctor said in his words he 'had a massive heart attack, but because of his fitness all should be well', although no driving or running for the next week or so, after that he can continue to drive, run, SCUBA dive and ski, but not to push himself to the limit as he had been doing, I called in the late afternoon and all was well, Kai was staying with him, in the evening he called to say he was actually up and about, but a bit shaky on his legs and will be moved to a normal rather than heart related ward shortly, what a relief, also a relief none of this cost a penny, and he could not have been seen or treated quicker, we often knock the NHS but when something like this happens you really find out how goods it really is, back to Sunday a read and a sherry, 

for our starters hot bread with salad and chicken liver pate, 

delicious, 

on to our main course, roast pork with all of the trimmings, with gravy for Diana,

sans gravy for myself, 

'Cheers!', 

the a real treat rhubarb crumble with custard, 

eyes down a tuck in, after which a Columbo, but the next one we had watched recently, so a film for the rest of the afternoon,

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, which we had watched before, but was great fun to watch again, we followed that with a Lewis, 

I am a sucker for programs about Loch Ness, and here was a new one being shown after our evening snack, Mysteries of Loch Ness Channel 4, perhaps the most famous landmark at the Loch, Urquhart Castle, and little history of the castle, the present ruins date from the 13th to the 16th centuries, though built on the site of an early medieval fortification, founded in the 13th century, Urquhart played a role in the Wars of Scottish Independence in the 14th century, it was subsequently held as a royal castle, and was raided on several occasions by the MacDonald Earls of Ross,

the castle was granted to the Clan Grant in 1509, though conflict with the MacDonalds continued, despite a series of further raids the castle was strengthened, only to be largely abandoned by the middle of the 17th century, Urquhart was partially destroyed in 1692 to prevent its use by Jacobite forces, and subsequently decayed, it is now one of the most-visited castles in Scotland, the castle, situated on a headland overlooking Loch Ness, is one of the largest in Scotland in area, the buildings of the castle were laid out around two main enclosures on the shore, the northern enclosure or Nether Bailey includes most of the more intact structures, including the gatehouse, and the five-story Grant Tower at the north end of the castle, the southern enclosure or Upper Bailey, sited on higher ground, comprises the scant remains of earlier buildings, and who were the Urquhart's? they were a Scottish clan still going strong today, photographs from our trip there in March 2018, as for the documentary it did in fact contain a few things that we had not known about Nessie, how the surgeons photograph was faked amongst others, we rounded off the evening with 2 from Vikings, before we were off to bed.