Week...erm..4!!!!

Another week, another late post! I won't make excuses - my initial promise of 2 updates a week was somewhat optimistic in hindsight :-/
Never mind eh - it's not like there's anyone hanging off my every move so if you just keep checking back every now and again, and i'll just do my best.

So then, i've been living here 4 weeks today. I would say time's flown by and, to some extent, it has. In other ways, it feels like MUCH longer! That said, i guess i should view it as some kind of milestone and feel some sense of achievement.

Anyway, work related life has been crazy, culminating in last weekend which saw the start of the Scottish schools Easter holidays. I'm convinced that to a child and a parent, they all turned up to our place on Saturday & Sunday, although despite the chaos and 12 hour shifts it was actually kinda fun.

Before this, I spent the previous week missing out on the staff ride I mentioned in my last post (TOO tired man), only to venture out on my own the following day for a short ride, get hopelessly lost and end up doing a 33-odd mile loop. Ouch!

It all began well with a steady 7 or so mile climb out of the valley, followed by a welcome 3 mile gentle descent to a lovely country pub ( i resisted entering). From here, i took a few photo's along the way.....

























































Not long after this pic, I realised that turning I was looking for to head home had either vanished or i'd missed it. Turns out they don't go much for signage up here and combined with my obvious poor judgement of distance, I actually overshot my exit and ended up in the next town 10 miles down the road! From here, I decided to play it safe and stick to the road to get home - a further 12 miles which suddenly saw the re-invention of road signs counting down every will-sapping mile!

The situation wasn't helped by my lack of planning (hey, I won't need food / water for this little jaunt!), or the seeming lack of ANY shop/garage/outpost for the WHOLE 33 mile journey! Oh, and it rained too. A lot.

Cheery this week ain't I? Not to worry though - I still cycled to work the next day and we even had a kind of staff bonding night out at the bowling alley on Friday which was good fun, albeit a bit brief.

I'm tired now so to finish up, i'll leave you with the weather. Just as we thought Spring had sprung, today has seen the seasons come all day, taking it in turns every 20 minutes to do it's best to confuse every living thing around here.This concluded with the most beautiful sunset being mugged by the biggest cloud you have EVER seen dropping the entire planets stock of hail & snow on our heads in about 10 minutes. I got a pic of the impending Armageddon as I legged it from the supermarket and a mad dash home in the car......





















And quite spectacular it was too! In fact, the events of this evening pretty much sum up my first month here. Who said life was dull?

Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

;-)