Hi All! Everyone ready for Christmas??! I am in my usual state of disorganisation. I will get around to sending your chrimbo  cards out - honest!! I haven't gotten around to even writing in them yet! I will i will!!

Mum and dad are coming next week....can't wait! Only 9 sleeps til they get here! Hurry up ma n pa...drive carefully obviously...but get here quick!

Busy week ahead. We are going out for dinner with friends tomorrow night and then it is our respective christmas meals on Saturday. Nick has employed one of our friends daughters as a receptionist just so that we can get a lift home with her parents!! He has promised to keep an eye on her for the night! She is only 16....not so sure he is the right volunteer to look out for a gorgeous 16 year old twin!! Hope Donald and Rosalie aren't looking at this! Nicks gang are having a very typical roudy ceidlidh and we more sophisticated ones are having a lovely meal at a local seafood restaurant.

 

The kids have their carol service at school on Thursday and then their party - glad rags at the ready.....you all know Holly! No such thing as less is more with her - more bling the better.

 

Friday is the last day of term, so high jinks all round! Order of the day is to run around like headless chickens and to get everything ready for mum and dad!

 

I am back to work the day after boxing day (boo) bloody NHS!! But then, it will probably mean that everyone else will have done in the bathroom and have lunch on the go by the time that I get home at 1!!

 

Nick had decided that a New Years Eve party is the order of the day! So Saturday and Sunday will, no doubt, be spent organising food and drink for the hundred odd (I hope that I am being really silly with that guesstimate!!) guests. I have to work New Years day at 9am!! So that should be interesting!

 

We are invited to a bonfire party on new years day in the afternoon over on the mainland at Ardmaddy Castle. It is to celebrate the new year and one of Holly's friends (Davey) birthday. But it is a surprise.....so shhhhh!!

 

I have attached a few photos for you to have a peep at. Some aerial photos of Balvicar...the village that we live in - well, we live just outside the village....our house is just off the photo to the left as you look at it. There is also one of our house, we were sucked into buying them at the door!!. We are such mugs! But they are really cool. The one of the house depicts our normal weekend routine..nick mowing the grass half naked, bikes everywhere....dustbins by the dozen at the gate..big bag of gravel...spookily no dogs or children....no blue car....wonder where we were. Feels like we were being spied on!! Big brother is watching!!!

 

Did anyone see us on TV tonight? It was on Ch 5 at 9pm. It was the New Life in the Country programme. About a couple from Sheffield relocating here and renovating an old tin church. Lovely photography of the island...Nick feels sure that it will have made house prices shoot up again!! Wishful thinking maybe! If you missed it it will soon be on the 5 life channel!

 

Anyway, better get off now. Have a lovely christmas everyone, we will be back in old Keg in Feb for a few days - so hopefully will catch up with a few of you all soon. Keep in touch. Send emails and pictures. If anyone sees Louise tell her to pencil me in for my hair do around Feb 16th 2007!! I can never get her at home!

See u all soon

Love

 

Kaz

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