update

For those of you who've lost track this is what we're up to

This is the plan


* We handed in our notice on tuesday. Mrs E took it really well, she doesn't blame us and she's happy for us. It worked out really well

* We're working through our list of things to do before

* We've booked our flight to sweden (25 September)

* I take my exam 25 October

* We fly back to London for a couple of nights 27 October (hopefully catching up with people on tuesday 28 oct.)

* We fly out to NZ 29 October
* We have a bloody good time in NZ
* We fly back to Sweden (via London) 26 March 2009 and start our new exciting life.

Big Momma comes to Scotland

And of we went to the highland games to watch men in kilt throw things. It has to be said, Jodie was very excited...

smile and pretend you like the fishy fish...

confident at first

and then the fear set in....

at one point I was actually screaming "I'm going to diiiiiie" at the top of my voice which made us laugh any more and made it harder to hold on....

a new friend

meet my new nephew

Point of Stoer pictures

...emailed through by a lovely dutch man.
Harland and Colin monkeying around out on a cliff high high up.

is that indiana?

smile

roadtrip!

Here are a but a few of the photos from our amazing 873mile (1405 km) roadtrip around the north of scotland. It was basically five days of driving, laughing and eating crisps.

Sinclair Castle

sign... what sign?

the two cousins that made this trip what it was

some disgusting irn bru action in a playground in Halkirk where we stopped for a picnic and hung our wet stuff out to dry. The poor unexpected residents didn't know what hit them... We spent half a day in Halkirk searching through a cemetery looking for non relatives:) hilarious..

I went snorkeling and got mussels. and very cold

the boys were fishy

I tried fishing but didn't catch anything. Did a good job not looking at the camera though....

the astonishing pass of the cattle, leaving the amazing Apllecross peninsula

and can I just say; this country is beautiful

sunday yummy sunday

firs potatoes of the summer, a cheeky, early harvest. Served with lamb, courgette and pepper kebabs, tzatsiki, greek salad, followed by my first ever effort to make a tray baked meringue with whipped cream, strawbs, kiwi fruits and chocolate sauce. scrumtous! unfortunately this was all gobbled up by us and our guests before i had a chance to get snaps... girl in garden

broad bean flower a few days ago