Scotland in March 09

Visited Tarbert, Argyll on the West Coast in March for a family wedding. Sunny mostly but a cold wind. Didn't feel that in the hotels and bars though. Cool wedding, great to see all our relatives after too long a break. A few of the photos we took and a few more out takes are below...

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Tarbert visit

Lucy visits Tarbert for the second time since the new year, she is showing us what to do...
Ruaraidh and the lads in the pub
Ruaraidh and Lucy
Cate and Mhairi
The bride's mum, Marilyn

The Bride and Groom
The Bride Jessica and her sister Carolyn
Tarbert harbour in the rain
Tarbert quay

The beautiful church viewed from the quay just before the wedding

Pictures from Snowdonia

1 - My buddy Ade. No fear.

2 - Me with "hat hair"

3 - Looking down into the glacial valley

4 - The rock willey

5 - A high altitude blue lake (colour caused by early copper mining)

Would like to go again when there are a few clouds about. It must be amazing standing on top looking down into the clouds.

Snowdonia, N Wales

Above photos taken on 30th May 2009 climbing Mt Snowdon, the largest mountain peak in Wales is 1085m (3,560ft). The forecast was for a good clear day on 30th May this year. So we set off early on Saturday morning and bagged it. Was home by teatime! Tame compared to Scotland but the views on this day were so clear you could see the west coast and the north coast of Wales at the same time! 

Cuillin Mountains, Scotland

Three years ago my friend Adrian and I climbed Sgurr nan Gillean, part of Cuillin Ridge, a chain of 22 peaks stretching over 12 kilometres on the beautiful Isle of Skye, Scotland. We were lucky with the weather, 28degC, rarely heard of that far north! The guidebook said, " Cuillin Ridge offers the most challenging mountaineering environment available in the British Isles...   ...exposure is incredible, vast yawning expanses of emptiness either side of you. The views are exhilarating..." Height is 964m or 3167ft (A Munroe!).

So we packed our brown underpants and off we set. Here are some of the photos. Thought I would share them! 

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Isle of Skye

iPhone 3Gs

So I gave in and finally joined the revolution. Two weeks ago I got my iPhone 3Gs and I'm still learning to use it he hee. Weighs a ton, makes one side of my denims lower than the other, but boy is it Coool. It does everything, even GPS moving maps for when you can't find a client in Hammersmith (happened last week). It took me the first week to find out how to turn the alarm off at 06:30am. It seems to "snooze" by default. There are no instructions to speak of. The Apple website has a load of cool videos which extoll the virtues and benefits, but don't tell you how to do the simplest of tasks. It was obviously designed by teenagers who never read manuals anyway. I guess I just need to get stuck in and hit buttons to see what they do. Learning by doing. Burn your finger once and you don't go there again - sort of thing. 

I remember when you used to get a one inch thick manual when you bought a 10 quid calculator. I suppose it saves trees but I am sure it puts greater pressure the psychiatric wards. Anyhow, I can answer phone calls and at the weekend I cracked texting so I am getting there. The first week I decided to tell everyone my new (obligatory) O2 number. I texted it once and "sent to many". Then one of the recipients, my daughter Lizzie, phoned to say I had sent it as an MMS and she had to go onto a website to retrieve it! Oh no! 67 MMS texts at 50p each. Found a little switch in the system settings for sms/mms which cunningly defaults to MMS (cos they make much more money this way). I switched it to OFF and now I can txt lik evry wun els. So if you get one, beware - it's a beast. You may also need to go upmarket with your jeans too. Diesel I find, have very strong pockets. Tee hee.