On the way home from swimming, and with the light failing, we stopped at the new play park in Drylaw. The sky was clear and the moon was full, leading to an unlikely lunar alignment...
Monday, November 30, 2009
Sunday, November 29, 2009
The Park In The Dark
A bit of catching up as usual. Two weekends ago, we visited the new Visitor Centre at the Botanics. After a bit of a potter there (it's very nice and makes the Botanics a much more attractive option in poor weather) we headed out into the garden, just in time to be told it was closing. So we headed across to Inverleith Park for a play on the swings.
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Let's Go Fly A Kite
Friday evening saw us round for dinner with Sam & Chris, so the combination of dreich weather and a light hangover on Saturday made for a fairly leisurely day. After a family bath (without me, there's no room) and ballet, Holly and Louis made scones. Sunday's weather was a bit better, so we headed down to Silverknowes to do a bit of kite flying and splashing in the tide pools. The day ended with a screening of Finding Nemo for the kids (and me, there was room this time), and a bit of photographic self-portraiture by Holly.
Visitors from Englandshire
Last weekend, we had Catherine, Matt & Isabel staying for the weekend. Saturday was pretty dreich, so we met the Evanses at the museum for lunch. Dave and Paula were also in town, and we popped along to their gig at the Auld Toll after dinner at Montpelier's. On Sunday, we all met up again for lunch at one of our regular haunts, the Queen's Gallery Café. The sun shone, the kids played in the garden, and a swell time was had before we took the Morrises back to the airport.
Return of the Mac
Well, I scrounged a "pre-owned" hard disk from someone at work, dug out my tiny screwdrivers, and sat down for a couple of hours to wrestle with the innards of the ol' not-so-reliable G4 iBook. Lo and behold, it sprang back to life and is chuntering merrily on my lap as we speak. Click through for more pictures but don't worry - it's a few that were missed from the last catchup rather than a blow-by-blow laptop dismantling...
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
It's Been A While
The cobbler's children are the worst shod, it seems. The sudden (but not unexpected) demise of a long-in-the-tooth laptop in the home of an alleged IT "professional" renders the household sans email, sans blog, sans everything. So I find myself using Helen's work laptop to upload a batch of photographic highlights from the last month or so. The batch includes getting ready for school, crawling around under the floor, mucking around with a large cardboard box, a walk/ride in the rain, halloween fancy dress, washing off body paint, a new swimming hat, lunch at the EICA and finally, a day off school with an upset tummy. The old laptop is due for resurrection any day now...
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