16.7.11

Went for a wander up to the shops with Eileen today. Got this lovely rain mac for a bargainous £30, it was originally £60. The Next sale is always good for a bargain.

14.7.11

Came home tonight to a BBQ on the go and Eileen, Andrew, Lewis and Elise for company. With the beautiful weather we have been having this week it was nice to get to sit outside and enjoy it for a while. It was a lovely evening, with the highlight being Elise teaching me how to get my Lady Gaga on. That girl's got some moves :)

13.7.11

This is one sleepy doggy. Eileen and her kids have been coming over during the day to see Huey while I have been at work. I think they have been tiring him out. He was absolutely out for the count, so much so I have to go give him a shoogle to wake him up so he could go out the back before bedtime.

12.7.11

Got home from work tonight to find the water was off. Apparently a pipe had burst somewhere and cut off the water to the majority of the surrounding area.

Me and Eileen went for an adventure to get water. Scottish water were apparently giving away bottled water at the Town Hall. By the time we got there they had all but run out, so we went to the next drop off point. The lorry hadn't arrived yet with the next load of water.....and still hadnt appeared an hour later, so we gave up and went to Tesco. The place had been ransacked apart from a few stray bottles. I was hoping to get enough to wash my hair, but no such luck :(.

8.7.11

Tonight I was meant to be going to Kirstys house for a birthday DVD night but unfortunately her house became a plague house and she had to cancel for the safety of humanity. Lyndsay came to the rescue and let me, Eileen and Sarah descend upon her abode.

She fed us Kramola Fizz (the replacement for Cremola Foam, a staple at my Grans house when we were growing up. It was pretty awesome)
Sarah and Eileen created Sherry Bombs (teaspoon of Kramola Fizz mix licked off the back of your hand, and then washed down with a sip of sherry)
Sarah approved of them. I declined the offer to try one. I was quite happy with my glass of raspberry flavoured God water.
Mum also made me a birthday cake, which Sarah decorated (of course. Its her role in the family now...)
I enjoyed my cake. It was a nice wee evening all in. I also got some lovely presents. I have been well and truly spoiled this year.

1.7.11

Happy July!! Today I had lunch with mum, Sarah and Eileen. Me and Sarah had arranged to meet for lunch today a few weeks ago. It was nice that mum and Eileen got to come along too. Sadly me and Sarah had to go off to work. I suspect mum and Eileen went to the pub, just because they could.

30.6.11

I went round to Eileens for dinner tonight (homemade lasagne = YUM!) and on my way home I had to stop off and get some petrol. I almost couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the price. 130.9??!?! That's cheaper than its been in AGES. Hopefully the price will keep dropping because it was started to get verrrry pricey filling my wee car.

So that's us half way through the year, and the month of June was rounded off with a nice little saving.

28.6.11

Today was my first day back at work. This made me sad. However after I finished work I went and bought some of my favourite salad dressing. That made me happy! You may think its a bit tragic but this salad dressing is amazing, and fairly hard to come by these days (yes, Eileen, one bottle is for you!!)

23.6.11

Tonight we headed out to sample some of the local nightlife in Inverness. We decided to go to a club called Miami, mainly because it was the only nightclub we had seen, it was open on a Wednesday night and it was free to get in. An added bonus was that the round of drinks below cost a grant total of £3.85!! You can barely get one of those drinks for that in Glasgow.

However, the music was pretty dire so we ended up heading back to the caravan at about 1am. We're so rock and roll

19.6.11

Heading off on holiday tomorrow with Eileen and Lyndsay. We're driving up to Inverness to stay in a caravan until Friday. Then on Friday night I am jetting down to Milton Keynes to see a couple of girls I went to Brazil with last year - Hayley, who was up here in February, and Rachel. Excited!!

16.6.11

I was round at Eileens tonight for a short while. A girl from my work, Laura (who is in the back ground) does acrylic nails, and was putting some on for Eileen while Elise entertained me with her stunt riding. She's such a daredevil.

8.6.11

Graeme is wanting to organise an event for Oxjam in October (a month of gigs organised to raise funds for Oxfam). Tonight me and Eileen went round for a brainstorming session. We managed to decided that we want to try and book some 80's groups (Spandau Ballet, A-Ha and the like. I'm sure they would be up for it), Eileen ate cheese goo with Kirsty and the only venue we found that Graeme fell in love with is in......London.

Successful night!

5.6.11

Today Eileen and her brood came over for a wee relaxing Sunday. Elise helped me hang out my washing on mums groovy wee free standing whirly gig. Surprisingly she was less of a hindrance than expected and was actually quite helpful. They did manage to just about eat us out of house and home from the moment they walked in the door this morning until they left after dinner. I dont understand how little people have such massive appetites!

4.6.11

Today me and mum went along to a wee church fete with Eileen and her kids. Kirsty and her children was there too, I believe she had helped organise it. I had a yummy hotdog (it's hard to get a decent one these days) and cake. It was good.

Me and mum were supposed to be running a wee market stall in Glasgow selling the bags mum had been making but it was cancelled. Annoyingly we didn't find out until we got there so we had to trudge home with all our stuff. I believe a strongly worded email will be sent to the organiser.

26.5.11

Me and Eileen went to the gym tonight. Its a rather uninspiring building. I suppose probably because it's a council run sports centre. Its fairly swish inside though.

I didn't work very hard but Eileen did. She told me not to let her work that hard again. I think she may have been slightly worn out afterwards.....

24.5.11

I decided to go out for a walk with Eileen tonight, to survey the damage caused by the crazy wind of yesterday. There wasn't much damage round my way, but round Eileen's there alot of damage to the trees, huge branches have snapped and a couple of great big trees have fallen.
This was on a path going through the park. There were just snapped branches everywhere.
And we also found a tree completely blocking our path. I took about 50 photos of all different trees, but I thought that was slightly excessive for my blog so just put up these ones. The council is going to have a fair job getting all the broken trees made safe, but they wont run out of wood chips for a while....

22.5.11

Today we Raced for Life!! The day started off freezing, wet and miserable. None of us were overly thrilled at the prospect of trudging 5 kilometres in the cold and wet but thankfully through the race the weather brightened up. Kirsty finished first out of us with an impressive 53 minutes, me and Eileen finished together at 54 minutes (knocking 9 minutes of my time last year and 15 off Eileens) and Sarah and Mum finished together at 1 hour 6 minutes. It was Mums first Race for Life after she kicked cancers butt last year. In the end it was a great day. As soon as I got home I slunked into a hot Radox bath and crawled into my bed for a couple of hours. Go Team Goldie Girls!!!

18.5.11

Tonight I spent a while ironing transfers onto tee shirts for the 5k on Sunday. Its called The Race For Life and its done through Cancer Research. I did it last year with Eileen, Sarah and my Aunt Isobel.

This year it will be me, Mum, Eileen, Sarah, Isobel, my sister in law Kirsty, Mum and Isobels cousin Valerie and Isobels step daughter Arlene. We will be The Goldie Girls as Mum and Isobels mum and Valeries mum had Goldie as their maiden name and in a round about sort of way we are all Goldies. Plus its a play on words from the old TV show The Golden Girls.

16.5.11

Tonight me and mum went out for a walk. We are doing a 5k on Sunday and haven't done any training together ( I have been gymming it with Eileen, while mum has been going out for walks during the day). It was fairly enjoyable. The scenery is rather pretty round here....

15.5.11

Today me and Eileen went for a swim and decided to treat ourselves to a wee shot of the sauna afterwards. We paid for it to be added onto our memberships when we joined the gym and have never used it. I must say I quite enjoyed and, and felt very very relaxed afterwards.

NB - My camera is still broken so I have had to resort to nabbing pictures from Google. The sauna at the council gym isn't as nice or as big as that one. Still good though :)