Time for a bit of a catch up! Over the last month or so we have experienced the Edinburgh Christmas lights and markets, had the first light snowfall, had a visit from Mum for a Christmas shopping weekend, been home…
Loopy Lorna’s & More Rugby
On Friday we took advantage of another deal voucher we’d bought, this time for afternoon tea at the popular ‘Loopy Lorna’s’ – a lovely tea house just up the road here in Morningside (http://www.loopylornas.com/). The deal consisted of a whole…
Ed Sheeran Concert
So we heard Ed Sheeran was playing in Edinburgh this week but was fully booked…he was on our ‘must-see’ list so we got ourselves on Gumtree and managed to buy 2 tickets that were going spare (for double the original…
Scotland Vs New Zealand Rugby!
After a busy week getting my first assignment handed in, getting assessed while taking a careers session in a school and Glenn taking a trip home to the IOM for business meetings, Sunday 11 November saw the All Blacks take…
Visit from Mum!
After a day and a half staring at a computer screen trying to do my essay, Glenn and I headed to Leith on Friday afternoon to check out the seaside port. We’ve heard really mixed reports about Leith – think…
Chester Weekend
Been a busy couple of weeks work and play wise – last weekend Glenn and I headed down to Chester by train for me to attend Sel & Martin’s wedding, and for us both to meet up with the Jamieson…
Placement and Pentlands
So…I’ve finished my first full week placement in SDS and really enjoyed it. Lots of information to take in so my brain felt rather frazzled by Friday, but feel I’ve learnt loads about the organisation and have been able to…
First Placement
So…not much to report over the last week as we’ve both been busy with work. We got out over the weekend for a walk round town which was nice, headed down the Royal Mile to the Palace of Holyroodhouse (Queen’s…
Even colder!!
At the risk of this turning into a really boring blog, I had to post a photo from today’s icy windscreen -even worse than yesterday!!
Brrrrr!!
Just a quick one to say the first signs of winter are on the way here….there was ice on our car windscreen this morning!