So Christmas has come and gone now and we're in that limbo-land prior to the Hogmanay celebrations tomorrow night. Today (Monday) we're in Inverurie for Luca's 13th birthday. Jo and I are going to have lunch with Gary and Luca in Gary's house.
Christmas was quiet - just the 3 of us - me, Jo and Ross. I drove in to Aberdeen in the morning to pick Ross up and he stayed the night, with Jo taking him home on Boxing Day. Here we are after our meal:
Jo and I don't exchange presents any more, but I did get some flowers for our anniversary:
We went for a walk in the woods on our anniversary but the weather wasn't really conducive to getting out again until Saturday when we decided to take a drive to the coast to the Nature Reserve at St Cyrus - somewhere I've always been meaning to visit, but never got round to until now. It's a lovely spot - nature trails and beach walks with high cliffs overlooking. There's even a mighty waterfall at the north end of the beach, but the tide started to come in so we couldn't get any closer than this:
Acres of sand:
That's all for now, folks. Keep watching this space.