A Baking Day

Today could best be described as "Dreich", or in plain English, dull, wet, cold and miserable!  so what better to do than a little baking to warm the heart and stomach.

As seen below, the master baker and decorator Ellie!

Hockey

Great day at the hockey today, Ellie playing for the Primary 7 "B" team. They beat the Senior 1 "B" team 4-0. How about that for a result!  Some very happy P7's and certainly a very happy Ellie!!

Sailing at Peterhead

Great day sailing up at Peterhead today.  Somewhat frosty start, breaking the ice off the self bailers so we could open them to let the water out and a cover stiff with frost.  Definately a day for the drysuit and thermals.

Wind died altogether going out to the start, took 30 mins just to get the 400yards or so from the beech to the comittee boat.  After a patient wait, wind finally filled in (with plenty of holes to catch the unwary).  Had 3 good races, first one went well and should be well up there on handicap, not so sure about the second race and definately only managed third or fourth out of five in the third.  Great weather though and fantastic light.

Saturday Hockey

Isobel played in goal for the full game for the Robert Gordons S2 hockey first team today.  Result, RGC 5 - Aberdeen Grammar 0. Only complaint, the team are too good!  Isobel had to stand through an entire match and never even touched the ball!

Cupcake Heaven

 Wednesday saw Ellie having Charlotte and Eilidh over for a sleepover, a very productive time was had by all.  Particularly good were the cupcakes baked by Isobel and decorated by Charlotte, Eilidh and Ellie.  Nothing minimalist about the decoration!  As you can see Ellie particularly enjoyed the fruits of her labour!

Saturday saw the first snow of the winter, not too bad though, roads were clear enough for cycling by mid-morning although there were a few "moments" in the slush at the top section of the Lords Throat road.

Walk from Seaview Towards Cuan

Sunday, final day of the hols, needless to say, best day yet.  Warm and sunny.  Went over to Seaview on the way to Elenabeich, light breeze but a long swell coming in from the Atlantic thet led to some great waves.

The view down to Scarba from between Seaview and Cuan

Walking The Dogs!

Weather a bit iffy on Saturday.  Managed to use the excuse of taking thre neighbours dgs for a walk to coax Ellie round a the local hills.  Usual fabulous views across Luing and Scarba across to Colonsay.  Lost Julie to some blackberry picking on the way home...........however all enjoyed the resulting blackberry and apple crumble!

Friday was a trip up to Loch Creran for a family cycle.  Parked at the Sealife Centre and used the new Sustrans cycle Network track up to Loch Creran and then around the loch on the old road.  Fabulous weather and beautiful views up to Bein Sgulaird and Bein Fhionnlaidh.

Big issue was the size of Isobel in comparison to the size of the bike!  Oh well, guess that's the Xmas list getting a little longer!

Autumn Colours At Achnacloich

Wednesday saw a trip to Poppies for coffee (for coffee read obscenely calorific cakes) then on to Achnacloich garden (to walk off some of the recently absorbed calories) where there were some beautiful autumn colours although the weather was a little driech!