tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47053635225157838252024-03-13T22:21:14.486-07:00Nikki, Will and Daisy's WalkiesHi, this blog was set up after we quit our jobs and sold our house for a campervan in 2006 in the search for a better work life balance and a greener lifestyle - a liberating work in progress! We took some time out in the beautiful hills of the UK and completed a sponsored walk/backpack from Land's End to John O'Groats before working at Forest Holidays then later as freelance rangers. Select from the Archive or Labels headings below left for an easier scrolling read of our blog.Nikki, Will and Daisyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11795345038892768504noreply@blogger.comBlogger320125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4705363522515783825.post-30721634352940105542015-10-16T15:00:00.000-07:002015-11-30T09:46:37.158-08:00Daisy Dogsmuck<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"Here's a quick overview of my 15 years of fabulous walkies, adventures and naughtiness!"</div>
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17th May 2000 - 13th August 2015</div>
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<br />Nikki, Will and Daisyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11795345038892768504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4705363522515783825.post-7312538032773891032015-10-16T14:24:00.000-07:002015-11-24T14:14:53.756-08:00Puppy Power<br />
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"I feel my puppy power brewing, I know, I'll be really naughty so that my first owners can't take it any more, then I can pretend to be really cute so that I appeal to help Nanny Walker with my company, then I'll scare her to death, pooh all over her kitchen floor while I run about like a lunatic until I worm my way into Will and Nikki's care, all by the time I'm 6 months old."</div>
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"Phew - I'm where I want to be but I still feel so full of naughtiness and mischief, I just can't help myself, but I've utterly exhausted myself and my new Pa!"<br />
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"What can I get up to know? They won't let me eat Chinese food like my last owners, or quavers, I go nuts for them! I know, I'll eat the dining room table leg, burrow myself into the sofa, pee on it, then have a poo on it, oh and then I'll be sick on it, followed by a helping of insistent barking. It might make my new Mum and Dad move out of the city and into a house with grass in the garden?"<br />
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"Chillin with my Pa."</div>
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"Doing my Ma's head in with my butt, I love riding on backs it seems."</div>
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Nikki, Will and Daisyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11795345038892768504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4705363522515783825.post-89446404300213743342015-10-16T14:00:00.000-07:002015-11-24T14:14:53.766-08:00New Place<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"Right, I'm in! My flippin' mental insanity has helped manifest a move to a quiet bungalow estate in Portchester. I feel so much better now I'm away from all that traffic and the scary boxer two doors away. As a thank you, I will never pee or poo in the house, I've decided to be house trained immediately!"<br />
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"I'm loving all this filth, decorating, gardening - although I am proving to be a bit accident prone. I've slashed my leg open on a metal bucket, then I hurt my leg jumping off the bench."</div>
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"Look at me, I'm feeling quite shapely as I get older, my leg muscles are forming nicely after lots of walkies and jumping incessantly like Zebedee. I love looking out the window on the horsey sofa too."</div>
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Nikki, Will and Daisyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11795345038892768504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4705363522515783825.post-11369353856322810512015-10-16T13:30:00.000-07:002015-11-24T14:14:53.743-08:00Backpack Walkies and Lots of Chillin'<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"Yippee, loads of walkies, although I am a bit sad to leave our lovely bungalow but lots of adventures on the horizon I think. I'm loving being with my Ma and Pa so much, I hated being left at home while they were caught up in the rat race."<br />
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"My new house that moves where we want is just brill', and I love the blown air heating sooooo much that I don't even care that my brain nearly fries!"<br />
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"Even better than the blown air heating is 'change the sheets time' - I sneak in and like to get caught in the duvet cover so tight that you can see me blinking under the sheets :-)."<br />
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"Mmmmm, Christmas dinner in the campervan!"</div>
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"Scafell Pike - Lakes"</div>
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"Cairn Gorm - Scotland, brrrrrr!"</div>
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"I'm on top of the world (well Britain), I'm bloody knackered, I'll see if I can look really sorry for myself then Dad will put me in his rucksack again, just until we get below the snowline then I will pull him all the way down Ben Nevis! I tried climbing Snowdon a while ago but it was flippin' freezing, I probably wouldn't have been allowed in the pub anyway, I have a taste for waiters, tee he he."</div>
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"Whopeee!"</div>
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"Oh, who's idea was it that I go in Dad's rucksack, he's crap, Mum only fell over once. Although she smells today, she peed in her salopettes after trying to do it like a man through a funnel, but used it upside down, snort, keep it natural and get a cold butt :-)"</div>
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"Tea time."</div>
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"Aah, Christmas card trees."</div>
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"Look at it, look at it all, all that lovely water to play in, bark at, fart next to and generally get ridiculously hyper at it."</div>
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"Go on Dad, throw it, throw it!"</div>
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"Shall I jump?"</div>
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"Off to the New Forest for a bit of work and to chase and bark at the ponies, one of them bloomin' stood and cut my leg though after I decided to have a good bark at her, ouch!"<br />
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"I like having a good howl along with the tawny owl hoot. Dad always takes it too far though and does it too much, until Mum tells him to pack it in."</div>
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"Much to everyone else's amusement, I can also demonstrate my amazing swimming skills in the air. My tail makes an excellent rudder too."</div>
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"I love a good bark! I am a bit more chilled as I get older though but still can't help it if we stop for too long, especially near water. This time it was pignut digging."</div>
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"I've always loved camping, luckily for me so does Mum and Dad, although my hair gets everywhere, especially after a night in Mum's sleeping bag, I keep her warm though :)"</div>
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<br />Nikki, Will and Daisyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11795345038892768504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4705363522515783825.post-62071496765924420362014-06-09T09:59:00.001-07:002014-06-09T09:59:33.416-07:00Nix has been busy!The <a href="http://nixinnature.co.uk/" target="_blank">Nix In Nature website</a> is now live! Take a look if you fancy joining us on a ranger activity, or if you would like to enjoy a Reiki session, or even a bit of artwork :-)<br />
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You can follow us on the <a href="http://nixinnature.co.uk/blogs/nix-news" target="_blank">website blog</a> and on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/nixinnature" target="_blank">Facebook</a> too.<br />
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Nikki, Will and Daisyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11795345038892768504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4705363522515783825.post-84726067507445278952013-03-21T15:49:00.004-07:002013-03-21T16:06:07.937-07:00Nix in NatureAnd so our journey continues.... We are giving a shot at doing our own ranger walks and hopefully eventually, cycle tours and hill walks later on. I aim to start getting creative again and hope to start selling some things and I am also learning Reiki, so that may well take me off onto a different tangent again. All very exciting!<br />
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Nix in Nature is the name I have decided upon after a couple of friends I met after leaving the rat race starting to call me that. If you are interseted, look up a Nixie in Wikipeadia. A Nix (or Nixie being the female version) in German folklore is a water sprite/mermaid that lure men to drown in the water! Mmm, maybe I was drowned as a witch in a previous lifetime and want to get my own back? In human form they can be identified by the wet hem of their clothes - which my trousers often are, but probably more due to the fact that I have short legs and my trousers are always too long for me and so I drag the hems in the wet forest puddles. I have started to wear wellies more and if any men are kind enough to come on our walks I promise not to try and drown them!<br />
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<a href="http://www.nixinnature.co.uk/" target="_blank">Here is our new website</a>, although this will be a temporary page until we have time to develop this.<br />
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Also, here is our new <a href="http://www.nixinnaturesblog.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Nix in Nature blog</a> specifically for the business side of things and our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=tn_tnmn#!/groups/158317784326425/" target="_blank">Facebook group</a> which you can ask to be member of.Nikki, Will and Daisyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11795345038892768504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4705363522515783825.post-87847886785506747322012-09-30T15:02:00.000-07:002013-03-21T15:30:10.308-07:00The Forest LogAfter five years with Forest Holidays it was time to move on. It was very sad to leave behind a major step in our outdoor life journey, including of course the friends we had made there. I will really miss our tiny friends at the bedroom window too (the fledglings, not Calum peeking in :-) Pecks and the three woodpecker fledglings, four blue tit fledglings that played on the see-saw witches broomstick and squirrely red too of course! We hope to be back in the area soon after a break to see you all soon.<br />
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Thank you to everyone there for having faith in our enthusiasm and giving us a shot at being rangers in the first place - a hard two year learning curve what with combining the job as site assistants too, but worth it. Thanks also for being open to ideas and giving us the opportunity to live in the forest with all that nature has to offer.<br />
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Here is a link to the <a href="http://www.forestholidays.co.uk/locations/scotland-holidays/strathyre-holidays/things-to-do/forest-ranger-activities" target="_blank">Forest Holidays Ranger Activities at Strathyre</a>. You never know, we may be able to cover the odd ranger holiday there for old times sake. There is a picture of me in the old rangers den and the walks seem to be similar still to the ones we set up and named :-) <a href="http://theforestlog.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">The Forest Holidays Rangers blog</a> which I added a few posts to is still live, but not sure if they will continue to use it as things move on?<br />
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Hi friends! Yet again a massive gap in our blog, it's been a testing couple of years but I will be adding some more entries soon. I am working on a new website so I will keep you posted about that but will keep this as a 'friends and family' blog :-) <br />
I thought this lump in the Lakes recently represented how life can be in that a high always follow a low point and the horizon is always bright. It can actually be beautiful in its own right if you look at it from certain angles and because of what you can learn from it.Nikki, Will and Daisyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11795345038892768504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4705363522515783825.post-86160058956103953682011-12-13T15:16:00.000-08:002011-12-13T15:24:15.303-08:00We're Back!<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J3GaqgVIpSk/TufeQX7eApI/AAAAAAAABa0/Wz19upGYv2A/s1600/P9295029.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5685757427461259922" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J3GaqgVIpSk/TufeQX7eApI/AAAAAAAABa0/Wz19upGYv2A/s320/P9295029.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><div>Hi, we finally have an OK-ish Internet connection yehaa! What a year it has been at the cabin site -just catching a few days off before the Christmas rush so will catch up with the blog eventually! The newly refurbished cabins are great and the reception even better now that we have a shop, coffee, pizza and booze! Somehow we managed to win an award from Hoseasons for best cabin site in the UK for customer service, despite the building works, awful pot holes in the road and team numbers down - worth all the extra hours then.</div><br /><br /><br /><div>I'm off to catch up on some sleep then, but here's a little pic' of a recent get together with our friends from Cobleland campsite at their end of season do....</div>Nikki, Will and Daisyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11795345038892768504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4705363522515783825.post-77384482510973643352011-08-21T11:42:00.000-07:002011-08-21T11:44:21.915-07:00Busy Bee'sHi there, sorry for no recent posts lately. We have been really busy at the cabin site working on refurbishments and getting through the 'silly season'. I will post more after the summer season soon! Best wishes*
<br />Nikki, Will and Daisyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11795345038892768504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4705363522515783825.post-49394768807748501722011-02-02T14:18:00.000-08:002011-02-16T15:14:33.297-08:00Imbolc or Groundhog Day<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-to0N2isNCwM/TVRnAmMNlRI/AAAAAAAABao/ZEGycAd8ahU/s1600/P2064548.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572191898913576210" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-to0N2isNCwM/TVRnAmMNlRI/AAAAAAAABao/ZEGycAd8ahU/s320/P2064548.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZPzQBNvbc9Q/TVRm5RVjduI/AAAAAAAABag/uxPwVHMOf_c/s1600/P2014545.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 240px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572191773056530146" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZPzQBNvbc9Q/TVRm5RVjduI/AAAAAAAABag/uxPwVHMOf_c/s320/P2014545.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><div>It's Groundhog day.... again! Well, we are supposed to be getting an earlier Spring this year up in the Trossachs as the sun was not shining, so neither a groundhog, badger, hedgehog, snake or a hag could have seen their shadow. <a href="http://www.groundhog.org/">Punxsatawney Phil</a>, didn't see one either apparently!</div><div></div><div>These poems worked out right for Scotland last year; </div><br /><br /><div>"If February give much snow</div><div>A fine summer it doth foreshow"</div><br /><div>"If Ash (leaves) comes before Oak, we're in for a soak</div><div>If Oak comes before Ash, we're in for a splash!"</div><br /><div>Here the loch is finally thawing, but could we get more snow yet? Otherwise if its a mild February stormy weather is to be expected!</div><br /><div>The Forestry Commission picnic table at Lemahamish obviously decided to go for a swim during the floods after the great thaw!</div><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div></div></div>Nikki, Will and Daisyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11795345038892768504noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4705363522515783825.post-52721542621296762022011-01-19T14:11:00.000-08:002011-02-10T14:17:58.168-08:00Full Moon<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1yfDJSCihN0/TVRjteIBsCI/AAAAAAAABaY/c-3rTAOJv_c/s1600/P1194540.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572188271796138018" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1yfDJSCihN0/TVRjteIBsCI/AAAAAAAABaY/c-3rTAOJv_c/s320/P1194540.JPG" /></a><br /><div>How amazing was the full moon this month! January's full moon is the Wolf, Cold or Winter Moon and apparantly, if you want to know how long it will be before you get married, then look at the first full moon of the New Year through a hankerchief. The number of moons showing through it it represents the number of months of single life! Darn it, I read this too late, I'll have to wait until next year now!</div><br /><div></div>Nikki, Will and Daisyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11795345038892768504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4705363522515783825.post-53945199792544514582011-01-10T14:05:00.000-08:002011-02-10T14:11:46.428-08:00Yew are Lovely<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4CF-F7H3r5I/TVRikhmJrnI/AAAAAAAABaQ/5nK5GIutorQ/s1600/P1104531.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572187018597346930" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4CF-F7H3r5I/TVRikhmJrnI/AAAAAAAABaQ/5nK5GIutorQ/s320/P1104531.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vZ9CzXzXVoQ/TVRieIpkFvI/AAAAAAAABaI/ap3rxzl_IDQ/s1600/P1104526.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 240px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572186908821559026" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vZ9CzXzXVoQ/TVRieIpkFvI/AAAAAAAABaI/ap3rxzl_IDQ/s320/P1104526.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><div>Yes yew, look at how gorgeous you are dripping with all those poisonous needles and flaky bark at Porchester Castle... and you seem to live forever. The locals love you, the pagans loved you, the insects and birds love you and so do I!</div><br /><br /><div></div></div>Nikki, Will and Daisyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11795345038892768504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4705363522515783825.post-8004223580237545052011-01-08T13:56:00.000-08:002011-02-10T14:01:40.343-08:00Family Food<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rXSGhsVirzo/TVRf8rpAfrI/AAAAAAAABZw/3fnnnrjPPis/s1600/P1084515.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 240px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572184135075659442" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rXSGhsVirzo/TVRf8rpAfrI/AAAAAAAABZw/3fnnnrjPPis/s320/P1084515.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-s8irvkUXOMQ/TVRfyS8DPfI/AAAAAAAABZo/L4JRCkmnhh8/s1600/P1084514.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572183956645953010" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-s8irvkUXOMQ/TVRfyS8DPfI/AAAAAAAABZo/L4JRCkmnhh8/s320/P1084514.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><div>At last, back to see family who we always miss loads, especially around Christmas time. So, here we all are stuffing our faces with amazing food in an Italian restaurant in Fareham to make up for our time away.</div><br /><br /><div></div></div>Nikki, Will and Daisyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11795345038892768504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4705363522515783825.post-269146386954173142011-01-08T13:01:00.000-08:002011-02-10T14:04:55.600-08:00<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-J-9AebiJs-A/TVRg4_D8GiI/AAAAAAAABaA/zXob2Ez3ojo/s1600/P1084520.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572185171081042466" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-J-9AebiJs-A/TVRg4_D8GiI/AAAAAAAABaA/zXob2Ez3ojo/s320/P1084520.JPG" /></a><br /><div>Will and I, before Will got that awful virus that stopped us getting to see everyone we wanted to. Sorry, we will see you all next time!</div><br /><div>Two cheeky chappies, clearly enjoying<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f20S-2bti2U/TVRgaxE_B3I/AAAAAAAABZ4/Iv6GIIUXpZs/s1600/P1084516.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572184651931256690" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f20S-2bti2U/TVRgaxE_B3I/AAAAAAAABZ4/Iv6GIIUXpZs/s320/P1084516.JPG" /></a> their food too much!?<br /></div><br /><div></div>Nikki, Will and Daisyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11795345038892768504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4705363522515783825.post-53012699610760239402010-12-30T13:44:00.000-08:002011-02-10T13:48:42.280-08:00Happy Hogmanay!<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LERGh3_2Cms/TVRdH8RYp5I/AAAAAAAABZg/8CNdsxwfBAc/s1600/PC304507.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 240px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572181029983659922" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LERGh3_2Cms/TVRdH8RYp5I/AAAAAAAABZg/8CNdsxwfBAc/s320/PC304507.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BaypWt4DFCo/TVRc7XH3nEI/AAAAAAAABZY/XQITFwUXHdI/s1600/PC304510.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572180813853203522" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BaypWt4DFCo/TVRc7XH3nEI/AAAAAAAABZY/XQITFwUXHdI/s320/PC304510.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><div>Arthur the piper, piped in an early new year for us so we all giggled the night away with mulled wine and a ceilidh - great fun as ever! Best wishes to you all for the New Year!</div><br /><br /><div></div></div>Nikki, Will and Daisyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11795345038892768504noreply@blogger.com0