Puddles, Eddi and Hummus

Just a few points from this last week.
We were getting cabin fever last Saturday and decided to get out despite the weather. We found Ailsa's old tiny wellies that fit Claire just perfectly. Rain coats, trousers, boots and Peppa Pig umbrellas led to a good afternoon of puddle splashing.

Last night we had a wonderful babysitter (a 21 year-old medical student from church who comes from a family of four kids herself and doesn't seem overwhelmed by keeping our crew in check). So we went to an Eddi Reader gig in a barn in Banchory. I yawned through the whole thing but still really enjoyed it.

Monday morning I was wishing I had some hummus so I went to the store and bought a tub. Later I went for lunch at a friend's. She had a mountain of homemade hummus that I tucked into. That afternoon as we were picking our children up from nursery she handed me a big bowl of leftover homemade hummus. Then, off we went to pick Ailsa up from school where I met another friend whose party I had been to Saturday night. She handed me 2 tubs of unopened hummus (one with added jalapeno) leftover from her party and finding no room in her fridge.

Be careful what you wish for.

Sharon

Choices..choices...choices

I realise there has been little input to the Reid blog for a while, what with Mahalia's baptism, Henry's birth and the visit of Aub+Rita there has been too much excitement and too much fun looking up other blogs. I think there is an inverse relationship between social life and blog productivity (Patrick you understand the equations - does this make sense?)

We do however have a large back-log of photos to reveal to the world at a very steady pace, but difficult to choose which ones...... I will do the first blitz with some photies from our trip to Northumberland...land of the early Celtic Saints (Aidan, Cuthnert, Oswald), Hadrian's wall, Roman forts, funny accents and phrases like 'champion', 'belter', 'aareeet' and 'a divvin knaw'

We had a boat trip to the inner Farne islands including the one where St Cuthbert was a hermit.

There were lots of puffins and guillemots, seals........ we were so close to them

Ailsa+Heather loved riding at the front of the boat

After a long day wall walking the blue and pink girls had a well earned rest

Team Reynolds group bath

Alnwick gardens - Ailsa was brave and got fully into the water features.

A visit to Lindisfarne - 'Holy Island'
Sharon's blog will have less photos - John