Back from my holidays

I've just found some spare time to quickly blog about my hols -woo hoo. Had a great time but I am exhausted from all the driving and now I feel like I have another chest infection :(

Our holiday started off with us staying at Aunty LoLo's house and meeing her new dog daisy - lovely puppy and I was surprised that Minnow, older dog, had matured and calmed down with the new puppy in the house. We had a nice beer and went off to bed, well we tried to get to bed but Emily hopped in and out of my bed and Phoebes for about an hour before passing out in my bed and thereby pushing me out onto the floot - but hey that was ok I got some sleep. Next morning we drove to Kemnay to stay with Amanda for 3 nights. Amanda's little girl Lana was so cute and friendly she even sat on my knee as soon as I sat down! So after a quick freshen up we popped over to see Alison in Banchory at her in-laws house for a few hours. Later on we drove back to Amanda's house, put the kids to bed and ordered a curry. And a very yummy curry too.

Sunday saw us relax in the park with the kids in the morning and then in the afternoon we drove into Aberdeen to meet up with Wendy and her new baby Charlotte. Charlotte looks so much like her father Craig!

Monday we went shopping in Aberdeen and quickly met up with Wendy and Charlotte again for a quick coffee. And in the afternoon we went to the beach and played on the sand for a little while before heading back to town to meet Adrianna and Sarah for some sushi.

Tuesday I drove to Huntly to meet my grandmother, cousing and my sister. So we had a cup of tea and some biscuits and we also got to meet 2 of Yvonnes latest puppies who I have to say were very well behaved with Emily in the room.

Tuesday afternoon we headed back to Alford and met up with Carol and her latest baby Joseph, we had a nice lunch at the local pub and chatted for hours. Tuesday night we stayed at Adrianna's.

On Wednesday we drove out to Banchory and saw Karen and Pippa, and finally we headed back to Cove, ordered pizza and helped to celebrate Sarah's birthday.

on Thursday we drove down to my parents house and visited my Grandmother in her new nursing home.

And finally on friday we drove, in the heat, back home. Total mileage 1242 miles over 7 days!

Thanks to everyone who let us stay, fed us, and let us use their homes.

Now I've got to get my head back to the study books as my exam is in 17 days :)
x

Photos are here

Coolest things

This has to be the coolest fish I've ever seen - you can see inside its head - no honest look!
Commonly known as the Barreleye fish it has a transparent head. There are some people out there who I wish had a transparent head so I could see what they are thinking.

Some holiday snaps

Chilli-tastic!

Update on the office Garden - the chilli's have started to turn red and to be honest I'm not sure we know what to do with so many of them!Even the Jalapenos have started to turn red

Even the purple suer hot are going red - hot hot hot!
my large family of tomato seedlings - strangely they are doing better in the pots than in the aero garden.
And a photo of my American treats from Chris - thank you Chris!
Whoppers = maltesers. and the boston baked beans ar a little like peanut M&M's

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Had an exciting bike ride home tonight. On my usual path home I stop where the pavement ends and I have to cross the busy road to make use of that pavement. But tonight I happened to notice a car parked in the lay by with something unusual going on. Whilst waiting to make my way across the road I kept glancing at the occupants of the car and wondered just what was going on as I saw someone thrashing about. I thought about it for a second and then I saw a guy dash from the driver seat round to the passenger seat. So I dashed off to see if there was something wrong and well I was shocked to find a woman having a full blown fit in the car. Her husband was trying to bring her round so I called for an ambulance. Nice to know my phone works! I waited with them till the ambulance came and whilst we were chatting I found out they came from Columbia so we had a brief chat about Bogota (friend who comes from there).

I hope she's feeling better.

Tweeting and Twitter

Just added a gadget to my blog - so I can now tweet from my mobile phone. Handy when I don't want to update my blog using the office pc I can now "text" an update.

Cool :)

Phew!

This week I had 2 TMA's to finish and hand in. I finally got one sent in at midnight on Monday and today's one was sent about 30 minutes ago. But alas it doesn't mean I can take a breather as I've got to do some catch up work, and prepare for my exam on 17th June. After that I play catchup again with my other course but then I can knuckle down and concentrate fully on Interaction Design. With that exam in October, that should give me 230 points towards my Open Degree (which I need 300 points for). The next 60 points are made up of a series of 6 small courses which thankfully don't have exams (big woo hoo there from me). The only thing I have to do is figure out which course I can take for the remaining 10 points and more importantly how much finance my company will give me.

Happy weekend everyone! x

I've just been voodooed

Yep I agree this definately looks like me in the morning. :)

Awwww

It's been a busy week - got 2 TMA's to get finished within the next 7 days and approximately 100 hours worth of reading. Anyway I sat here tonight and got some sewing finished, and just snuck upstairs to tidy away some of my sewing materials. I switched on the bedroom light, walked around the bed to my sewing box, knelt down to put my items in the box, when I thought to myself where was that breathing noise coming from? I turned to look at the bed only to find one fast asleep little cutie. Awwwww. She'd snuck up when I'd been busy using the sewing machine so no-one heard her. :)

games test

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