The Office - Day Two

'Where's Dave? The work's begun!'
Okay, it was another day of decorating today. I managed to get the wallpaper off of all of the walls. Had to soak the undercoat but it was peeling off extremely easily, a lot more easy than I had expected it to be! Dave has done the remainder of the polyfilling so, apart from the cleaning of the walls we are ready to get started on the wallpapering. Hopefully I will be able to start on that tomorrow, the sooner we get it done, the sooner we can get the office made up again. I am quite looking forward to it, I love decorating, cos you are left with a brand new room, so much potential, its like having a new house, or getting a present!

WooHoo!!

'Nice dungarees!! Well, I felt I had to look the part! I'm just impressed I managed to take a photo of myself!!!'

'Monty tried to help but he's not really sure what's going on!'

The New Room!

'What you need to decorate a room'


Well, we finally got started on the office. Dad took the old wardrobe out on Friday so today was spent buying wallpaper, which we have never attempted to put up before. We then made a start on removing the old paper and filling a few of the holes left in the wall from the removal of the wardrobe.

So these are the before photographs, some of them show the wallpaper off, and some show some of the lining paper off aswell. We'll have to see how it goes and how it improves! It should do, new walls and new floor!

4th January - My Birthday!!

Its my birthday! Well it was on 4th January! I was off at the boat with mum, dad and Pyper, well Pyper stayed in the car he is in no way a sea-dog! Well, it was absolutely freezing! Anyone who knows me, knows that I rarely feel the cold, well I had four layers on today and was thinking 'Boy, this is a bit chilly'!! Well, it did start snowing as we were leaving!


I haven't been on the boat in ages so it was a nice change and treat for my birthday!

I got some great presents including a doughnut maker from David, so we have been playing with that all day today! It is surprisingly good and has made some really lovely tasting doughnuts!

Hogmanay

Well, Hogmanay has been and gone! Once again it saw us at a Hogmanay party with the music supplied by David. And very good it was too. A great crowd and a great night!! Unfortunately dad wasn't able to make it as he was feeling very unwell! :( We had a good time nonetheless and a good time was had by all!

David has even been booked then and there for next year's Hogmanay and for a Wedding Anniversay party!! Great stuff! As usual, yes, I have pictures!!!


Mum and George!

David and his gear..

Christmas and Beyond!

Well, its all over and what a successful Christmas it turned out to be! Yes, I did manage to make some non-Sabled mince pies and they were very tasty! My stuffing roll, take one, became a stuffing pancake but tasted fine. Take two was much more successful! The cheesecake was also a hit as too was the mint chocolate roll, with those who like dark mint chocolate!

The christmas cake was also tasty and took pride of place on the christmas table. We also scored a haul of presents so decided to make them last all day! Best present? Well, they were all great but we had bought ourselves a Nintendo Wii which we left until last thing, about 8.30pm! It has to be the most painful present of them all! I ached so much for the next two days, all the bowling and tennis, good grief. It also went down a storm on Thursday, when my family was over!! Some mean tennis players and bowlers there!

Oh, and we went to see The Snowman in Glasgow! It wasn't what we expected at all!! They had the Scottish National Orchestra there and while they played the music we watched the 'cartoon' on the big screen! It was really nice! Then in the second half we had carols with some audience participation! It was a great night, very different from anything I have been to before!

On Christmas eve we were also out and about, we went to a midnight service, it was really beautiful. And the minister was a great laugh! Only the second time I have been to an evening Christmas service, so something to remember!

Of course no blog entry would be complete without some photos so here they are:

"Whars Me Present"

"All Dressed For Xmas"