Enough is enough.

Weather watch - 15 degrees, overcast and grey with rain forecast.

Today was a lazy day, so there shouldn't have been much to report. Everyone had a long lay in and some didn't surface until gone 11:30.  A recharge of the batteries was required and the activities will start tomorrow.

We spent some time reading the papers, books and local attractions leaflets whilst drinking tea, coffee, whisky or anything else that we fancied and basically just chilled out.

There is no phone signal up here and everything is eerily quiet.  There are two televisions at opposite ends of the absolutely enormous house and when they aren't on it is totally silent, save for the screaming voices of teenage girls.

Dawn, Izzy and Mads all went down to Loch Ness for a walk and took some lovely pictures.  So far, so good.

A rare moment of calm

Yoga by the Loch

On their return we unfurled the rather nice full size snooker and pool table, stressing the basic rules for the girls playing on it, i.e. no greasy fingers, no food or drink in the area, preferably have an adult present and trying to play proper shots so as not to tear the baize. After a few nice games, it almost degenerated into warfare and blood was only averted after some grown up intervention.

The arguments and bickering went on into the evening and this turned into downright open defiance at 11:00pm when they just simply refused to go to bed. 

Traumatised and weary, we therefore summoned them to a bit of a family meeting when we told them how it was going to be from now on. This went better than anticipated as there was no argument or backchat.  After we had released them from their shackles and removed their gags, they did actually go off to bed, calm was restored and the adults had to crack open a large bar of Galaxy chocolate in order to cope with the situation.

It may seem as though all we go on about is the kids behaviour and I'm sure most of you will be thinking "What on earth are you moaning about? It's normal."  So with this in mind I'll try and focus on the positives from now on.

Tomorrow, weather permitting, we hope to go West to visit Eilean Donan Castle and the day will be different.