Horizontal Sunday

Take a bottle of medium dry white wine (three for £10 from the Dingwall Victoria Wine shop - a sure sign of quality), add two tins of Strongbow cider (eight cans for £5 in Strathpeffer Mace - purveyors of fine brews at competative prices I'm sure you'll agree), two pints of Tennants lager in the Strath Hotel bar (£2.40 each, a bit steep considering the, um, less than salubrious surroundings. Unless, that is, it costs more than you'd think to achieve an ambience of general decay. Although to be fair the bar pricing policy does seem to be rather flexible, ranging from the high experienced on this visit to a low of zilch on a previous occasion. The price never seems to be the same twice). Top all that up with a "house" measure of vodka and fresh orange (origins unknown) to send you back up the brae. Oh and let's not forget the hamburger roll (origins of all hamburgers should remain a mystery). All of this should be set to a background of pipers parading in the square (every Thursday evening as well as Saturdays these days, for those who can still appreciate the skirl without a fixed grimace).
Put these ingrediants together and serve up as the Strath Barbecue Experience.
Spend the following day horizontal on the couch.
The Viking Queen's experience varied slightly in that the wine was red, the lager in the bar was eschewed in favour of more cider and a bottle of beer at the barbi, and bed was preferred over the sofa as the medium of recovery. There were doubtless other variations that resulted in broadly the same effect.
Having lost 50% of the weekend to the BBQ after effect it was up with the larks on Monday morning and an hour spent roaming the woods with Rowan to get the systems back to operational before going to work (Viking queen still in bed at time of leaving).
The moral of this story?
Well it's obvious isn't it?
Stay away from barbecued hamburgers!