A long day...

Ok, so today I didn't wake up till 12ish but I still managed to get a lot done. Spent two hours hoovering and manouvering all of the bedroom. Can't believe how much fluff my dogs produce...
Then we went to the reedfield and threw the air kong (elongated tennis ball throw toy) for the dogs. About an hour of that and then off to Tescos for some food...gotta love all these money off coupons...

So now, full of roast chicken and assorted vegetables, I sit in front of the blazing fire on my laptop, enjoying that slightly-over-full feeling and looking forward to a possible episode of Lark Rise to Candleford...

And, I still have a day off tomorrow...more dog walking, probably some wood collecting, and definately some good old fashioned snoozelling...

So tired...

Castle Stalker, seen from the restaurant just off the road between Oban and Fort William...

The sign at the beginning of the Glen Nevis walk, 'tis a very steep and slippery walk...marvelous views down the glen, and waterfalls everywhere you look...it was very wet when we went up so we did not make it to the top of the glen...

Ben Nevis, seen from the Nevis range cafe and shop...excellent place to stop if you're driving around here...most of the food served is wholesome organic or free range (proper free range)...and there is a large wooden cow outside that is perfect for memorable pics of the trip...

Beauly church, bit further north but still worth mentioning...within walking distance of the road through Beauly this church is eerie but cosy...the cafe shop in the centre of Beauly also does the most amazing jacket tatties (baked potatoes) and has some interesting fillings as well as some fantastic ice creams...Beauly is on the East coast but so far into the Moray Firth that it is pretty much central in Scotland...over the bridge from Inverness and along a bit...

Sunset over the Isle of Kerrera, beautiful, calming, spectacular... Kerrera is one of those islands with a proper community...which luckily enough C. and I have been semi accepted into although we don't actually live on the island.

Oban, from Pulpit hill, if you have dogs that appreciate late night walks to calm them before bed then this is a great hill to have nearby...our dogs need this hill...and the views are awesome, that's a Calmac ferry just behind the trees...

View from McCaig's tower...beautiful again...almost the full length of Kerrera...the marinas...the whole ferry terminal...and North Pier...Oban seafront in glorious sunshine...

View from Pulpit hill, this time looking towards Mull and the Ardnamurchan Peninsula...shiny white Calmac ferry just beyond Kerrera and the marina nestled into the island...quite moody skies in this photo...

Just felt like putting up some photos of the beauty of Scotland, so lucky to live here...

Work, work, work...

I know we're not really supposed to rant about customers but seriously...its not rocket science! Its a 'self-service' till. Not that difficult; I've seen 5 year olds use them effortlessly...seen senial old men who can barely lift the basket up onto the shelf thing...and yet some 'normal' folk can't manage it.

Enough!!

Calm...

Ok, ranting over for now, should really be in bed but just not that sleepy, can't sleep when Cs not here.

D. just decided it would be fun to throw a fake vomitting session in, and now I'm awake again...

Oh, and I found out I shall be an aunt to a gorgeous wee niece arriving late June, early July....Yay!!

Right, going to sleep now...maybe...after flinging D. into her bed to sort herself out...crazy creature...

Bye...

Reminded...

So, my sister linked a page to her blog and that reminded me that I do indeed have a blog...must keep this up even though typing is becoming even more difficult; the flat is freezing, and my darling D. has torn the Caps off my keyboard...

I can't even remember what was in my last post...

It was a bit of an odd Christmas, bit of a strained Christmas... we had a guest, fallen on hard times thanks to a crazy alcoholic partner...and he wasn't the best company for such a time of togetherness...

We muddled through, C. cooked an excellent goose and we had proper snow to walk the dogs in...
Had to defrost the rats water bottles most days...they seem to like the cold weather though; I seem to give them more warmed interesting foodstuffs when its frosty outside...

After the bombshell T. delivered when C's parents were up, I have been desperately trying not to buy any baby clothes or stuff...

FAILED...but she did make it to 4 months before I gave in...so difficult to find any unisex stuff, tis all pink or blue...

Then a stroke of luck and the Tescos in Ireland opt to change the labelling on their stock so all their 'old' stock is transported in roughly 600 lorries across to mainland Britain...Including a bottle steriliser that usually sells for 40 pounds...for a tenner...yay!!

So, baby-stuff-buying over for a while hopefully...

C. is off down south to see his family, all of it...and I'm on my own for a week and a bit...lots of walking, washing, cleaning, and plotting to be done...

My idea to get a fantastic ne bloodline for T's rabbit breeding program is moving...slowly, but still moving...and I have to keep it under wraps when I go down in March...beautiful if I could get a vienna marked mini rex, or a blue eyed white dwarf lop or lionhead...beautiful, beautiful creatures...

Anyhoo, now 'everybody' knows I'm still here I'll be going, sleep calls...