Our pals Sarah and Mitch stop off on their Scottish trip to spend a night with us…

THE alarm goes off at 6am to get the pork shoulder out the fridge and the smoker fired up. Pulled pork tonight 🙂

Takes me an hour or so to get everything going nicely then I go back in to bed and enjoying a coffee when I spot a message from our pal Sarah. She and her husband Mitch are visiting from LA and coming to stay tonight…we were expecting them mid-afternoon, but her message says they’re on their way now!

After a bit of a scrabble getting thing ready, we manage to have breakfast out the way when they roll up.

We each up over a coffee then take them down to the bay and along to the old pier where they embark on a walk up the lochside. We stop in to see Betty then get back home to watch the smoker and get on with some work.

Our pals enjoy their walk and are back late afternoon. The pork’s ready before 8pm and we sit round the table, eat, drink and chat.