Our So Called Advent Blob - Day 1

Christmas is coming and the goose is getting fat, although we probably shouldn't tell it that in case it has personal image problems and gets really upset.

Anyway, it's December and time for the kids (and a number of so called adults who should really have grown out of that sort of thing) to open their advent calendars and spoil their breakfast with early morning chocolate (of course, in my day, you didn't get chocolate, just a small picture of a Christmas thing, moan, grown, yawn), or to receive a small gift. This year, Lachlan and Calum have each got a nice Thornton's chocolate calendar, and they have a Lego one to share. So that you too can share in this joy, I am going to try and blog every day (it'll never last) with a picture of the calendar which you can click on to see the exciting Lego item for the day. The first day's item can be seen by clicking the picture below.

NB Vikki thinks this is a rubbish idea. Please let us know in the comments if you like it or not, so I can decide if it's worth continuing.

I tried to set up an image map but it didn't work - not sure if that's because I got the syntax wrong or if blogger doesn't like that sort of thing but I'll play around with it and see if I can do it for tomorrow.

When Two Blogs Collide

Well, we had a fine time on our trip to Lewis to escape from our elder children for a while meet young Alasdair Morrison, catch up with his parents and gatecrash go along to his gran's birthday dinner.

All in all, it was a good trip - great to see everybody again and to meet wee Alasdair. We stayed at the Dacama B&B in Ullapool on the way up and at The Rowans in Stornoway. Both were very nice and Anne at The Rowans certainly serves up a hearty breakfast.

The weather wasn't great but we went for a drive and had a quick stroll in the drizzle at Luskentyre beach - we really will have to go back in the summer some time.

If you want decent photos of Alasdair, check out Alex and Fi's blog or Ian and Nikki's. If you want to see some dodgy photos taken by me, see below or click on the images to get them bigger.

The continuing travels of Magnus

And now?

Where's Magnus?

Snow Joke

As forecast, it snowed yesterday. Sadly for Vikki, this meant she couldn't go running this morning without risking injury, but happily for the boys, it meant sledging. So we went to the park (unbelievably Lachlan actually asked if we had to walk even though it's only about 1/2 a mile) for a couple of hours and had a great time despite getting a bit cold, a bit muddy, and very wet (in Calum's case especially). Heaps of other people were at the park, including our neighbour Craig who ended up having a snowball fight with Calum.

 

 

 

Max Tundra Rocks

We went to see Hot Chip on Sunday at The Forum in Aberdeen. I thought it was an excellent gig, and a good night out. I also really enjoyed the support act, Max Tundra (warning: link to myspace with automatic music), who was very strange, but also extremely good. Go see these people if you get the chance - you probably won't regret it.