I'm slipping up with my blog writing but there just isn't enough hours in the day! No major news from last week - I enjoyed my Pilates, Synergize and Swiss ball classes but I'll have to get back to the higher impact, sweaty stuff this week!
On Thursday we went to view another house but it wasn't a patch on the first one we viewed (hence why it was £50,000 cheaper!). It needed a bit of work done and it was miles from the nearest train station. I've got it really easy at the moment with a 10 min bus ride to work but I refuse to sit 50 mins on a bus to get to work!
On Friday I went for a few drinks with the folks from work which was good but I didn't stay too late because I had to tidy the house for Ross's folks coming on Saturday. Thankfully Ross had made some lovely broccoli and stilton soup so lunch was sorted!
On Saturday I went to see The Producers with Ross's mum and Ross went to the pub to watch the football with his dad. The show was quite good, better than I expected, but I found Joe Pasquale's voice irritating (and he couldn't sing for peanuts!) but the rest of the cast were very good. I was itching to get out though to hear the Scotland score and was jumping around like a maddie when I heard we scored.
Every pub was hoaching, you couldn't get in the door!
On Thursday we went to view another house but it wasn't a patch on the first one we viewed (hence why it was £50,000 cheaper!). It needed a bit of work done and it was miles from the nearest train station. I've got it really easy at the moment with a 10 min bus ride to work but I refuse to sit 50 mins on a bus to get to work!
On Friday I went for a few drinks with the folks from work which was good but I didn't stay too late because I had to tidy the house for Ross's folks coming on Saturday. Thankfully Ross had made some lovely broccoli and stilton soup so lunch was sorted!
On Saturday I went to see The Producers with Ross's mum and Ross went to the pub to watch the football with his dad. The show was quite good, better than I expected, but I found Joe Pasquale's voice irritating (and he couldn't sing for peanuts!) but the rest of the cast were very good. I was itching to get out though to hear the Scotland score and was jumping around like a maddie when I heard we scored.
Every pub was hoaching, you couldn't get in the door! But as everyone knows it was short lived and we were robbed in the last seconds. Enough said on that. At least the Italian restaurant we went to for dinner was quiet, and the waiters weren't rubbing our noses in it! Donna and Neil popped round to get changed before hitting the town. I was tempted to go with them (as Ross was in bed drunk by this point!) but decided to save my money instead - plus I didn't want to be having to find my way home from the west end alone!
On Sunday we viewed another house which was even worse, we're really not having much luck but we are quite rightly being fussy about what we want! Ross then took me to the golf range which was really good fun. I'm seriously thinking about getting lessons before going to the States in March. Sunday night was a quiet one spending quality time with Ross before he left for Finland. I chatted to a few folks on MSN (you know who I mean - hope you are doing OK!) then curled up on the couch to watch 21grams. However my mum phoned so I decided to give the film a miss and watched Ewan Macgregor's Long Way Down instead. It was fascinating - basically he is riding on a motorbike from Scotland to Cape Town so you can imagine it was pretty amazing. It's just so refeshing to see a celeb getting down and dirty. I was then going to head to bed but a programme came on about Bulgarian children in institutions which I was compelled to watch.
It was perhaps the most disturbing documentary I have ever seen. I can't believe that a country which is part of the EU can treat children so badly. They were malnourished and had no stimulation whatsoever so they just sat naked on pottys all day and rocked. Unbelievable. I have since donated money to Unicef because I found it so harrowing. You can sign a petition here - http://www.tbact.org/root.aspx?pointerid=3773acbb514248069099b93f4140d1d1
I received some good news on Monday though when I heard I had won a staff competition. We had to describe a living landmark which was important to us so I said the Hector Macdonald monument in Dingwall. The monument is a 100ft tower built in memory of local military hero Sir Hector MacDonald in 1907. It is memorable in an ironic way for me because the monument is in the middle of a cemetery (therefore you might not think it is an entirely appropriate 'living' landmark!).
However when I was younger my friend got leukaemia and a few of us decided to raise money for leukaemia research by spending the night in the tower on Friday 13th! It was the coldest night of the year, with several inches of snow and the tower windows had no glass in them. However we wrapped up in sleeping bags and the whole community rallied round and sent us their support (some even brought us hot soup and bacon rolls!) and we made it through the night without panic or hypothermia getting the better of us. We raised hundreds of pounds for a worthy cause and, best of all, my friend made a full recovery. So, we all lived to tell the tale!
On Sunday we viewed another house which was even worse, we're really not having much luck but we are quite rightly being fussy about what we want! Ross then took me to the golf range which was really good fun. I'm seriously thinking about getting lessons before going to the States in March. Sunday night was a quiet one spending quality time with Ross before he left for Finland. I chatted to a few folks on MSN (you know who I mean - hope you are doing OK!) then curled up on the couch to watch 21grams. However my mum phoned so I decided to give the film a miss and watched Ewan Macgregor's Long Way Down instead. It was fascinating - basically he is riding on a motorbike from Scotland to Cape Town so you can imagine it was pretty amazing. It's just so refeshing to see a celeb getting down and dirty. I was then going to head to bed but a programme came on about Bulgarian children in institutions which I was compelled to watch.
It was perhaps the most disturbing documentary I have ever seen. I can't believe that a country which is part of the EU can treat children so badly. They were malnourished and had no stimulation whatsoever so they just sat naked on pottys all day and rocked. Unbelievable. I have since donated money to Unicef because I found it so harrowing. You can sign a petition here - http://www.tbact.org/root.aspx?pointerid=3773acbb514248069099b93f4140d1d1I received some good news on Monday though when I heard I had won a staff competition. We had to describe a living landmark which was important to us so I said the Hector Macdonald monument in Dingwall. The monument is a 100ft tower built in memory of local military hero Sir Hector MacDonald in 1907. It is memorable in an ironic way for me because the monument is in the middle of a cemetery (therefore you might not think it is an entirely appropriate 'living' landmark!).
However when I was younger my friend got leukaemia and a few of us decided to raise money for leukaemia research by spending the night in the tower on Friday 13th! It was the coldest night of the year, with several inches of snow and the tower windows had no glass in them. However we wrapped up in sleeping bags and the whole community rallied round and sent us their support (some even brought us hot soup and bacon rolls!) and we made it through the night without panic or hypothermia getting the better of us. We raised hundreds of pounds for a worthy cause and, best of all, my friend made a full recovery. So, we all lived to tell the tale!
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