Current obsessions
I have made a crocheted pencil case for my Sharpie pens. this had the advantage of combining two of my new obsessions! Making a pencil case for the Sharpies gave me an easy crochet project to [Continue]
Patterned Skulls
We were inspired by the art projects website to make some patterned skulls. Jonathan did one on orange paper first. This was completed when we listened to How To Cheat A Dragon’s Curse read [Continue]
Since the holiday
Since we came home from the holiday we’ve been spending lots and lots of time revising for the girls environmental management iGCSE. I say we meaning all of us. The girls have [Continue]
A bit of everything else (Written before we broke down and got towed for 14 hours)
Don’t want to bore you all with things you’ve already heard, explained in great detail again, so I’ll just summarise on some of the things that we’ve been doing Went to the Falkirk wheel [Continue]
Brian’s last journey…
The pedants will point out that there will be one more, but this was our last journey with Brian. We had planned to go into Glasgow on Wednesday, opting to drive to the station in Ayr and then [Continue]
A special video from Ayr
We didn’t have time to upload this before being towed down south, so here it is for you now. Sorry. [Continue]
All good (if slightly disastrous already) things…
….must come to an end. Brian has blown his head gasket. We have had a temporary repair attempt at local garage. Holidays here over the weekend so no chance of a proper local fix soon. Starting [Continue]
Hiding from the weather
As gales continue to batter the west coast of Scotland, we continue to hide inside. The decision to abandon reliance on Brian and his awning is looking like a sound one. We have just [Continue]
Gales blow us off course
Not literally, don’t worry. After a blustery night in Newburgh (in a nice warm house fortunately) we used the time waiting for Brian’s return from the garage to study every weather [Continue]
Ythan Seals
While we were in Newburgh Jennifer took us for a walk along the beach next to the Ythan Estuary. The whole estuary was just full of seals, floating in on the tide, and popping up to peer at these [Continue]