It's less than three weeks until our new arrival is due - according to the estimated due date (or best guess!). I suspect the baby will come late, which is OK, because a wee rest and time to get the house is order would be good!
I finished work a couple of days ago and already realise i'm pretty pants at resting up and conserving my energy for sleepless nights ahead! Must try harder. Trying to blog more regularly would be a good, reasonably restful thing to do while i'm waiting. And while we haven't been very good about regularly updating, we promise to post news and pics of the baby up here as soon as possible, so keep an eye if you want to be the first to know!
Catching up with people we haven't been in touch with for ages is also proving to be a nice way to spend the time - good to chat to Julia from uni and Louisa from Dublin this week for the first time in way too long!
My Dad and his wife Roberta are currently on a train bound for Connel to visit for a few days so it'll be good to hang out with them for a few days. Shame about the weather - after being hot and sunny and quite unlike Scotland as soon as the school term finished on Wednesday, it's been cloudy and rainy, oh well, what do you expect?!
Saturday, 3 July 2010
Sunday, 28 March 2010
Where to begin?
There's just too much catching up to do! So this random series of thoughts and pictures will have to do for now...
We're just back from a lovely holiday in Belgium, visiting Jude.
here we are in a park... It looks like autumn, but it was more springy. Another day we even picnicked...
Unfortunately when we got back to Glasgow, a lump of metal fell of the car and we had to abandon it and head home by train, a bit of a stress and a dampener on our holiday, but hopefully the car will be fixed in a few days and we'll be back to normal.
More winter pics:
Paul and Dad thinning out some oaks at Benone.
More soon. Chris
We're just back from a lovely holiday in Belgium, visiting Jude.
here we are in a park... It looks like autumn, but it was more springy. Another day we even picnicked...
Unfortunately when we got back to Glasgow, a lump of metal fell of the car and we had to abandon it and head home by train, a bit of a stress and a dampener on our holiday, but hopefully the car will be fixed in a few days and we'll be back to normal.More winter pics:
Paul and Dad thinning out some oaks at Benone.
More soon. Chris
Friday, 8 January 2010
Sorry for the silence
Sorry we haven't been updating the blog with exciting tales of our life in Argyll! We are still struggling to get internet at home because of some boring issues with our address and BT - hopefully to be resolved soon the sake of our sanity and our long-distance friendships.
Everything is going well, however. The run up to Christmas was a busy time, so apologies if we weren't in touch to wish you the best of the season. We are settled into our wee home, most of the boxes unpacked. Work is busy for us both, but we manage to get to see Paul's family fairly often and got home to Northern Ireland in December for a few days. It's icy cold (-9c this morning as I scraped the car...) but the mountains are looking beautiful. More soon, fingers crossed. Chris
Everything is going well, however. The run up to Christmas was a busy time, so apologies if we weren't in touch to wish you the best of the season. We are settled into our wee home, most of the boxes unpacked. Work is busy for us both, but we manage to get to see Paul's family fairly often and got home to Northern Ireland in December for a few days. It's icy cold (-9c this morning as I scraped the car...) but the mountains are looking beautiful. More soon, fingers crossed. Chris
Friday, 9 October 2009
Sad News
Paul's mum, Pat Campbell, died on Monday morning, October 5th at St Andrew's Hospice. She will be greatly missed by all who knew her, but particularly by Jim, Paul, Barbara, Mhari and all the rest of the family.
The funeral is on Monday, October 12th at the Campbell family's parish - Our Lady and St Helen's in Condorrat, Cumbernauld.
I know that all the family has been glad of the support and prayers of those around them. And have found much comfort in happy memories of Pat and laughing together!
The funeral is on Monday, October 12th at the Campbell family's parish - Our Lady and St Helen's in Condorrat, Cumbernauld.
I know that all the family has been glad of the support and prayers of those around them. And have found much comfort in happy memories of Pat and laughing together!
Saturday, 3 October 2009
Mr & Mrs
Excuse our blog silence, but we've been getting married! Thanks to everyone for all your help and love and being with us on our Big Day. Lots more to follow, but here's a pic to start with.
Saturday, 12 September 2009
jiggered
We've shifted two van-loads of stuff into the new flat and its just a sea of boxes and bits of furniture.
Spent yesterday racing around the secondhand furniture shops of Glasgow and Cumbernauld, then a quick dash to visit Paul's mum, to the church to discuss practicalities for the day with the priest and Quaker elders, and back to pack the van with Paul's stuff. This morning was an absolutely gorgeous day, and we drove up to Connel via the Trossachs and Crianlarich - lots of folk putting on their hiking boots and heading for a day in the hills. But we had other exercise in mind.
It was great to pick up the keys for the flat, and our land lady, Sarah, had left a bottle of wine and flowers to welcome us, as well as the pansies she planted in the window boxes. The rest of the day is just back and forth with one box after another - where did we get so much stuff? And, more importantly, where are we going to put it?!
By 5pm, we were shattered, we could just about pick out paint at Homebase for the one room that needs a colour-change, and it was back to the Oban flat for fish and chips in front of the telly. Tomorrow, we'll try and create some order before the last of the furniture and stuff arrives on Monday and through next week! Busy times.
Spent yesterday racing around the secondhand furniture shops of Glasgow and Cumbernauld, then a quick dash to visit Paul's mum, to the church to discuss practicalities for the day with the priest and Quaker elders, and back to pack the van with Paul's stuff. This morning was an absolutely gorgeous day, and we drove up to Connel via the Trossachs and Crianlarich - lots of folk putting on their hiking boots and heading for a day in the hills. But we had other exercise in mind.
It was great to pick up the keys for the flat, and our land lady, Sarah, had left a bottle of wine and flowers to welcome us, as well as the pansies she planted in the window boxes. The rest of the day is just back and forth with one box after another - where did we get so much stuff? And, more importantly, where are we going to put it?!
By 5pm, we were shattered, we could just about pick out paint at Homebase for the one room that needs a colour-change, and it was back to the Oban flat for fish and chips in front of the telly. Tomorrow, we'll try and create some order before the last of the furniture and stuff arrives on Monday and through next week! Busy times.
Wednesday, 2 September 2009
Sneak preview of the house
We went to take a look at the wee flat we are moving into - and it was still lovely! There's a burn running down one side so while you wash your dishes you can look at the water and the birds coming and going... That's why its called Burnside Cottages.
Here's Paul checking out the sitting room - two windows to watch the world come and go. I don't know if you can get much of an idea from the pictures, but here's a few anyway.
So we get the keys on the 12th. It'll be a frantic dash to get packed up and moved in, as well as track down the second hand furniture we need before the wedding. One thing worth mentioning is there's a guest room! The race is on for who will be our first visitors!
Here's Paul checking out the sitting room - two windows to watch the world come and go. I don't know if you can get much of an idea from the pictures, but here's a few anyway.
So we get the keys on the 12th. It'll be a frantic dash to get packed up and moved in, as well as track down the second hand furniture we need before the wedding. One thing worth mentioning is there's a guest room! The race is on for who will be our first visitors!
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