Up The Farway Tree

Lovely Easter Holidays - now back to reality!

Both myself and Andrew have been on annual leave since Easter and we both just returned to work today.  I had PBL at the uni and then back to other work tomorrow.  We took the time off because we wanted to get some things done around the garden and I also felt if I didn't take a holiday soon I would collapse in a heap!!

We spent Easter weekend at mum and dads, and Corey was also up visiting.  We had a nice weekend and a lovely Easter dinner.  It was then my transplant anniversary and dads birthday on the Monday, so we had another wee celebration :-)

So we have spent our time since then:

Mostly trying to get the garden back into some sort of order after all the building work last year.  Andrew was cleaning out the greenhouse, cutting grass, digging, weeding and sowing the vegetable beds.  Meanwhile I planted the herb pots and lots of trays of seeds - some of them I have inside as it is still quite cold over night, and I do have some shoots already.  Hopefully I will manage to grow something!

Andrew spent three days painting the rough cast on the extension - it was a nightmare because it was so deep you had to kind of jab the brush into it - no way could you use a roller.  I helped for about 30 mins and then gave up :-)  He is on the roof of extension here because he was painting the down pipes - Anne don't worry, it's really not that high up :-)

 I was supervising the painting here...

Seb got lots of walks at the park!

Andrew liked sitting outside and making small fires in the chimenea.   Seb was there for moral support.

Meanwhile Seb was busy sitting on chairs and taking empty ice cream pots out to play with.  It's a hard life for a small dog.

We mostly stayed at home and relaxed, instead of trying to run about all over the place.  It was nice to enjoy the great weather we have had this week and I have spent plenty time sitting in the sun drinking coffee and reading books.

I also met up with Victoria and Kirsty to start making preliminary plans for our big fundraiser this year,which will be a Halloween party with the theme 'Dead Famous'.   This year the charity to benefit will be The Butterfly Trust.  There are quite a few charities who have helped us in the past and we are trying to share any funds around!  We have managed to book a huge room at QM union, at Glasgow university.  I am surprised we managed this because it is around Freshers week so they are not usually keen to hire out rooms around that time but we obviously won them over :-)  We are going down the line of a party idea for us young things (I count my age of 32 as young of course!) this time - offering a student discount as well.   We thought it would be fun to do something different to the ball and less formal (although we are planning a 2nd ball next year - give people some time to save!)  The Halloween night will be £10 a ticket, which should compete with other Halloween nights at local pubs and clubs.  It's going to be on the sat 29th of October and we are just putting out the feelers for people who might be able to help with entertainment (preferably for free!).  We are thinking along the lines of magicians, face painters, tarot card readers......so if you know anyone who might be willing to donate a couple of hours to a good cause, then let me know.  Like wise if anyone has good ideas for other money spinners on the night - Halloween games etc then give me a shout! 

Finally I am going to leave you with a very random video!   If you remember the Littlest Hobo, this will make sense.   For those who don't - this was a TV series in the 80's which featured a dog, who was always on the road, going from town to town and never settling down. The music accompanying my video is the theme tune to the Littlest Hobo.