Lifeboat

Went down to the Lifeboat open day today with the boys. Its a lot bigger on the inside than it looks, but still don't fancy heading out in it on a rough day!

Its bad tho, that a city trader can get a six figure bonus for bankrupting a bank, buy a yacht with it, set off out to sea and the lifeboat crew has to go out and risk their lives as volunteers to save a life. Then they have to spend more of their own time on a freezing cold Saturday to raise funds so they can afford to put fuel in the lifeboat.

Back to Work

Been back to work for two weeks now, I could live with working on days like this all the time. But as the pic at the top shows it is not always so peaceful. This load of wood shifted on the boat and resulted in one big game of Jenga! Took a while to sort out and made me glad everything comes in containers now.

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Christmas has Arrived 1

I was hoping to be writing this a couple of hours ago but Santa's been, Turkeys ready for the oven, the boys are sleeping...........eventually. Hope everyone has a wonderful time.

Merry Christmas

Christmas is coming 3

Iced the Christmas Cake today, it must be 15 years since I last made royal icing! All things considered it looks ok and the boys liked using the leftover icing to decorate the biscuits. I think a bath will be required soon. Going to make more mince pies and try not to eat them all. Thought it might have been a good day to go and take photo's of waves but the last torrential downpour has made my mind up.

Christmas is coming 2

Decorations are up! Christmas cake is soaking up the Brandy, and the mince pies......well the 1st batch were very good. I don't have much evidence to back that up as I ate 10 out of 12! Have heard that the Turkey is now very worried about the future, but he should be happy because the cranberry sauce taste's lovely. Only 10 more sleeps to go according to our eldest and I have a feeling they are going to be shorter every night.

Christmas is coming 1

It's been decided on higher authority than mine that today's the day the Christmas decorations go up! I don't have the patience for it all, the furniture shifting and left a bit, right a bit hassle to make sure everything is even etc. I love the look of the house when its all done and it really means Christmas is coming. How long the tree will stay up could be interesting, our youngest has started climbing and might just see the tree as his next Everest! In past years i have been able to escape using work as excuse, but this year I can't so I'm going to retreat to the kitchen and bake mince pies and the Christmas cake.

Stromness Wanderings

Had a good day yesterday, Doc has told me to try walking to clear my head, so I took the bus to Stromness and walked from the pierhead to the golf club and back again. Had a wonder around the Pier Arts Centre but I'll leave my thoughts on that till I've been back again.

The light was very good yesterday and there was at least two other folk wondering around taking pictures.

Above is a few of shots from yesterday, not fiddled with yet just as they are so far.............