What to do on a wet Wednesday in the Highlands? Head for Inverness and a meal at the <a href="http://www.kitchenrestaurant.co.uk/" target="_blank">Kitchen Brasserie</a> overlooking the river followed by an Icelandic film (subtitled) at <a href="https://www.eden-court.co.uk/" target="_blank">Eden </a><a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/kitchen-brasseriemay16.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-3366 size-thumbnail" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/kitchen-brasseriemay16-134x200.jpg" alt="kitchen-brasserie(may16)" width="134" height="200" /></a><a href="https://www.eden-court.co.uk/" target="_blank">Court</a>.

The Kitchen is a restaurant that Jane and I had been to before with Tony and Jude - good food in pleasant surroundings overlooking the river Ness that flows through the city. Last time we were here Tony and Jude reminded me that Jane had spotted an otter and we had stood and watched it for some while. No Otters but there was a heron fishing along the edge.

<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Rams-filmmay16.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-3367 alignleft" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Rams-filmmay16-225x300.jpg" alt="Rams-film(may16)" width="225" height="300" /></a>After a great meal we walked up to Eden Court to catch the film. It was about two brothers in Iceland who kept sheep on farms next door to each other. They hadn't talked to each other for 40 years and communicated by sending written messages via their border collie (lovely dog).

Here I am in the Highlands of Scotland watching an Icelandic film with subtitles - it doesn't get anymore bizarre than this. Despite what you might think it was an entertaining film. I'm sure nobody reading this is likely to see the film so I don't need to give a spoiler alert here. Their respective sheep contract <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapie" target="_blank">scrapie</a> and have to be destroyed. They cope with the loss of their beloved sheep (yes they get very emotional (tears and sobbing) about the death of the sheep). One brother secretly keeps a few sheep from the authorities and when discovered his brother comes to his rescue. They decide to take the sheep into the hills during a snowstorm to avoid the authorities but one of them gets lost and due to the cold is near death. The other brother finds him, drags him into a snow hole and lays alongside him naked to try to revive him. You are left to make your own mind up as to whether the brothers, who are now talking to each other, will survive (happy ending) or not. I'm not into happy endings at the moment so in my scenario the brothers died, the dog died and the sheep died. Everyone a loser. Oh and I forgot to say, it was billed as a comedy.