Wishing one and all a Blessed Christmas.
May the joy of the angels,
the eagerness of the shepherds,
the perseverance of the wise men,
the obedience of Joseph and Mary,
and the peace of the Christ child
be yours this Christmas.
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Festive Seasons Greetings
Playing Golf
One of the joys is living on an estate with its own golf course, so we had to go out for a couple of holes yesterday.
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Anna's Hockey Injury
Anna was involved in some hockey fixtures, but in one of them she was caught by a swinging stick. She decided to stop it with her chin. Evidence...
Wednesday, November 06, 2013
Cold Water Surfing
Benjamin and Anna braved some of the cold northern waters to catch a few waves. You have to learn somewhere...
Memories of Year 6 Expedition
Each year Benjamin's class go on an expedition into the Scottish Highlands. This past year we sent him in with a camera and here are some of the results...
Tuesday, November 05, 2013
First Day Together at New School
At the start of September, Anna started her first day at the Prep School with Benjamin. Here she is all grown up...
Edinburgh - August 2013
After a rather busy summer break, with not many photgraphs taken we ended up in Edinburgh for the last week or so of the Fringe Festival. Ben and Anna had their portrait's done, which you can see below...
Saturday, July 20, 2013
Anna's last day before she moves schools
Anna taking the school bus for the last time, armed with an ipod and pens for signing her shirt.
Anna and Benjamin with some of the other (older) leavers on the harbour wall. Jumping into the harbour is a primary 7 tradition.
Anna thinking about the jump, but decided that it was too cold.
Benjamin's Birthday in May 2013
Here is Benjamin celebrating his birthday in Gairloch and again once we got home.
Another Trip to Gairloch - May 2013
We took a leave-out weekend to Gairloch with a number of other families from the school.
Friday, July 19, 2013
Family Bake-off
The teams were boys against girls in a bake-off. Each team time in the kitchen to prepare and produce something awesome. The girls went for cupcakes and the boys went for carrot cake with chopped walnuts. (Ben's recipe) Here are the resulting products...
Melanie and Anna happy with their product
Benjamin icing away
The proud winners! (in our opinion)
Anna expressing her opinion to the judges.
Sorry, it has been a while
Dear all, we apologise for the lack of posting and promise to catch-up soonest.
Here are some picture of us in the snow in early February...
Ben and Anna enjoying a frozen Loch Morlich
Ready to throw snow ball at the camera man.
Sliding down hill towards the road, which frightened Melanie