Tomorrow we had planned a kilted day out at the Loch Lomond Highland games, one of the biggest games in the calendar. The games are being held at Balloch Castle Country Park, a siutable venue if the weather is ok. Also on tomorrow about a mile away on the Loch Lomond golf course is the third round of the Scottish Open, a good appetiser for next week's British Open at Carnoustie.

As I sit here in front of my PC at 11.05 pm, the rain is battering down, it can't come down quick enough. The games venue is going to be a mud bath and the golf tournament will also affected by the continual rain.

Traffic will be exceptionally heavy going towards these venues tomorrow as there really is only one road from Glasgow to Loch Lomond. We knew that there would be traffic jams tomorrow but we were prepared to put up with that but the weather forecast is for more rain tomorrow.
As you can guess from what I saying we are pretty disappointed that we will probably have to give tomorrow's games a miss. I can imagine the state my kilt shoes, hose and kilt will get into tomorrow with the rain and mud, it probably is'nt worth the bother.

Nevertheless, the eternal optimists, we are heading next Thursday for the Isle of Mull where the Tobermory games are taking place, so even if the weather is bad we will still be going as we are staying for 3 days and we have paid up front (do I sound like a mean Scotsmen?... I hope not)

Anyway I am going to pour myelf a large Glenfiddich and forget about our attrocious Scottish summer. Slanje!