Posted in Activities on Feb 19th, 2010 1 Comment »
It was a busy week for me last week. A couple of my workmates and I decided to run an auction at work to raise money for DEC Haiti. We thought our colleagues might pull some random crap out of their spare room to donate. But it became larger than what we imagined. One of [...]
Posted in Activities, geocaching on Jan 23rd, 2010 2 Comments »
So The Big Freeze hit the UK this festive season, which was such a novelty for us! Here’s a BBC satellite image so you can see the extent of the snow and frozen-ness. So we went snowboarding – twice so far! The first time at Cairn Gorm with Gerrod and Kristy, the second time at [...]
Posted in Activities on Jan 19th, 2010 No Comments »
We were blessed at Christmastime with the company of Gerrod and Kristy. We had a lovely turkey, presents and vodka shots time with them on Christmas Day, before we headed west for our mountain adventure. As you may have read, we had some car trouble, in fact Wes at first didn’t want to drive it [...]
Posted in Activities on Nov 22nd, 2009 1 Comment »
Scotland, along with England, celebrate Guy Fawkes Day each November 5th. Basically a man called Guy Fawkes tried to blow up Westminster in 1605. He was unsuccessful, but every year, Brits burn a likeness of him on a bonfire to celebrate his foiled terror attack. I saw on a History of Scotland (gotta love Neil [...]
Posted in Activities on Nov 11th, 2009 No Comments »
It was such an amazing thing, that Wes’ mum Therese and one of her friends (Cal) came to see us last month. Even better for Wes, they arrived on his birthday eve! Great timing! We enjoyed showing them a bit of our Scotland, and I think they enjoyed seeing it as well. Apart from the [...]
