Getting in the outlander mood

Joined the National trust. Need to get out more!

We went along to Culross and had a great tour of the castle.

The tourist trail - Game of thrones

Confession time - I haven't ever watched an episode of game of Thrones - but I have been to see the sights. (The same is true for Outlander too!)

So here's one:

Pickie park with the rellies

No trip to Pickie park would be complete without a visit to the swans.  As usual, no one wants to accompany me on them.  

Still, the 3 generations were happy enough to pose with the evil orange swan.

 I rekon the evil swan is about 7 feet tall!

Weekend in the north

Stonehaven is quite a nice place - we went without the caravan, and got here in the evening. This ship is not in good nick. With the junior student in tow, we walked round the bay, stopping for a delicious chinese meal on the way back. 

After an overnight and the worst breakfast possible, we needed a better coffee, and took it down to the beach.

After a trip round the gardens, and a (another) trip to Pizza Express (tesco vouchers) we stopped in the Beach Ballroom to hear the Junior blow the saxophone in her wind band before heading home. 

And the only fly in the ointment was the broken windscreen on the new car. 

The demise of Fiona and the arrival of ???

Fiona has been a trusty work-horse - delivering me to work in Fife for the past 6 years. She has had a few tyres, and some replacement brakes, and nothing else major.

Let us not dwell on the half-baked paint job executed by a major scottish dealer to fix the paintwork under warranty...  So good they did it twice.

And Fiona headed off into the land of webuyanycar, then we picked up the as-yet-un-named DS3.

Shortly after this, Mrs C claimed this as her preferred choice of transport for the foreseeable future.

For the record - the roof is "Emerald".

Troubles come in threes

Ask me about eating vegetables.  I am not a shirker of the genre.
So January finds me on fridge tidying duties - and prepping the last of the christmas parsnips for our evening meal.

Unfortunately there is a skill that I have not yet mastered...

So my thanks go to my local nurse friend - who knows who she is, for sorting out a minor emergency.  

Next time - hold the thin end while slicing the thick one! 


 

HNY2017

We've made it through to the end of my Christmas holiday, and I need to go back to work tomorrow.  We have had a holiday in Belfast visiting all the relatives, generally sleeping late, and catching up on life.

I finished up the year back in Grangemouth, playing for a hogmanay dinner-dance.

Then we tool a trip up north for a family reunion on the first. It is good to get caught up with the scottish side of things.

(we left home in sunshine, and made it through the snow!)

And finally, today, we had a family day - and a great "raclette".

Epic. 

Finally, my personal thanks to Arthur Metz for keeping me going through the season.

That's a big turkey!

Happy Christmas to you all from the Candlishes.

 Here's wishing you a good new year too!