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567 days ago
Well, howdi all. Hope everyone is well. I am just blogging today to let my mum and dad see our pics from Tiree. We went last week for 4 days. It was my surprise for Nick. He is going to hit the big 4 oh on Wednesday and I decided to treat him to a weekend away. I suspect that he was guessing that it might be a trip to NYC or Paris or somewhere equally glamorous for the two of us. Little did he know that it was to be a trip to a little Scottish island in a self catering cottage with the kids, dogs and his parents!! You should have seen his face when I told him!! However, Tiree is the most beautiful place. The sun shone for us and we had a great time! We didn't take a car because it was too expensive so Nicks Olds took their bikes and we arranged to go on the community bus. We weren't allowed to take dogs on the bus though so Nick walked them from the Ferry to the cottage. We had estimated that it was just about 3 miles to the cottage but we had worked it out wrong. It was 6 ...
622 days ago
1038 days ago
Hi All!! How are you all keeping? Hope you are all well and had a fab chrimbo. We had a great time - one of the best that I can remember! We spent it at home with my mum and dad. Mum and dad brought a huge turkey for christmas lunch - 400 miles!!! It was the size of our dog - so big, it wouldn't fit in the fridge (and anyone who knows us knows how big our fridge is!!) So I asked Nick to hang it from the rafters in the garage. So he bagged it up in 3 bags and then couldn't see why I had asked him to hang it and so left it on the side in the garage. At 2pm on christmas eve (sunday) Holly came inside asking if we knew that Bonnie the dog was eating the turkey and had dragged it up the drive and left it in the gravel!! As you can imagine, we didn't and so all hell was let loose. I stormed off to Oban at 2pm on christmas eve looking for the last turkey in town and lets face it, you would be lucky to find a skinny old chicken at 2pm on ANY sunday in Oban never mind Christmas eve! So ...
1081 days ago
Hi All! Everyone ready for Christmas??! I am in my usual state of disorganisation. I will get around to sending your chrimbo cards out - honest!! I haven't gotten around to even writing in them yet! I will i will!! Mum and dad are coming next week....can't wait! Only 9 sleeps til they get here! Hurry up ma n pa...drive carefully obviously...but get here quick! Busy week ahead. We are going out for dinner with friends tomorrow night and then it is our respective christmas meals on Saturday. Nick has employed one of our friends daughters as a receptionist just so that we can get a lift home with her parents!! He has promised to keep an eye on her for the night! She is only 16....not so sure he is the right volunteer to look out for a gorgeous 16 year old twin!! Hope Donald and Rosalie aren't looking at this! Nicks gang are having a very typical roudy ceidlidh and we more sophisticated ones are having a lovely meal at a local seafood restaurant. The kids have their carol ...
1093 days ago
Well, lots of catching up. I have been a bit slack about keeping up to date - so that probably means that you have given up looking! Well just on the off chance that you take a peek, I will add some more info and pics. So, what has happened since the summer?? We have been up and down the road a few times to see you all and of course to see the Robster! Nick and I went to see Robbie in september - it was a bit like planes trains and automobiles! We caught the train to Glasgow and had a nice day mooching around Glasgow some yummy nosh at Wagamamas (so sophisticated compared to Oban!) then we flew to East Mids, Clare and Ade kindly put us up then we were picked up by Claire and Jason and driven to Milton Keynes for the gig. We stayed in a cool hotel with a gym and pool. We had gold circle bands so we turned up at the gig just as the main man was coming on. We snook clare into the gold circle by sliding our bands off. She was wetting her knickers thinking she would get chucked ...
