Our Road Trip

Well, yesterday was a laugh and a half - I met up with two friends (to make up "The Three Amigos") and we had decided to take an Easter tirp to Landmark ... no not the furniture place ...... HUH!!

Well I set off at the ungodly hour of 8am ... OMG .. and on a Sunday too ... I never usually surface before mid-day FFS and headed to Crieff "The Holiday Town" ha effin ha to meet with me mates.

8.59am and we set off. Stopped and had brekkie at the House of Bruar - because by 10am I was effing starved but at £3.50 for a bacon roll .... my imagnation had to take control and turn that buttie into an imaginary full English fry-up!!! Ah well .. never mind.

Off we set again and we came across the Highland Wildlife Centre ... so we popped in .. I say popped in ... but at £10 a head I was expecting a lot!!! (am I reinforcing the Scots are a tight bunch of gits stereotype?? haha)

I knew from the first 20 minutes that I was gonna be a disappionted lad .... I think most of the animals were on an Easter break. I did however manage to see some red deer, buffalo, wolves, reindeer, wild boar and mountain goats but by the time we were finished ... and frozen solid in the windchill factor of about -50 (slight exaggeration) lunch was on our mind and we set off again for our destination.

I don't know when it happened ..... but we decided to head for Inverness instead - why, you may ask ..... I have no idea ... the sign said Inverness so we headed in that direction! As you may have guessed ... a day out with us is like a day out with The Clampetts!! PMSL



I said I wanted to go to Loch Ness ..... and that was the next stop on this magical mystery tour - I wondered if Nessie was gonna make a star appearance .. but NO ... like the animals in the Wildlife Centre .. she too was a bit shy and probably underwater eating her Easter eggs. The view was amazing though ....

After that we drove down the edge of Loch Ness all the way to Fort William. We stopped there for the necessary "pee break" .. well after a 100 mile trip down Loch Ness .. it was needed!! I aint the type of lad to pull up in a layby, unzip and let flow ... I need my comforts ;-)

It was getting on now ... must have been about 4pm when we set off again and for some bizarre reason .... Tam (the driver for this road trip) headed for Oban!!! Now I am not saying that he likes to drive fast .... but we "landed" in Oban a wee while later and sought out a restaurant that wasn't fully booked with the Easter Sunday brigade. (oh how unplanned were we ffs) We did manage to find a nice eatery and sat down to a nice meal.

After filling up with our fuel ... the car needed the same and off we trotted to the garage. The nice chap behind the counter gave me another good Scottish word to use ..... HEE HAW!! We were about to buy a newspaper and he replied "I wouldn't bother ... there's 'hee haw' in it today!" That was the word for the rest of the trip home!! Here is Vicki leaning out of the car, travelling rather fast shouting "hee haw" and me leaning further out of the back window taking her piccy .... NUTTERS!!!

Anyways ... this is beginning to ramble ... so I'll bring it to a close .... I got back home at after 9pm having travelled about 400 miles all around the north of Scotland .. but having had a great laugh!! Tam and Vicki .. thank you for cheering me up BIG TIME!!

Catch-Up

Well this Easter Holidays lark is playing havoc with my body clock! I am used to getting up at 6.00am and heading to work at 7.30am , but these long lies in my bed and switching on the television to morning and daytime tv crap are beginning to do my head in - and I never thought I would be saying that!!!!!

I am a bit of a work-a-holic ... okay .. I am a complete work-a-holic and if I am not leaving the country for a holiday ... they tend to drag on a bit and I get bored. It's not as if I couldn't be busy ... the hall needs decorating as does the main bedroom and the lounge and the bathroom floor needs re-grouting ... can I be arsed??? erm NO.

Today I am going to get myself off up the road to the salon where I can get my hair cut and be pampered with a head massage and get up to the hospital to visit my dad.

Yes ... he is still in hospital. The poor guy was supposed to be getting out at the end of last week ... but hey .. you guessed .. with all of his luck there was a complication and he's still there! One foot out of the bed in the ward and thoughts of home ..... then DISASTER and his wound starts leaking some really foul substance! I won't go into to too many details .. I am nearly barfing myself just thinking about it. Needless to say .. more hospital and more time bored out of his mind. He was able to tell me how many tiles were on the roof ffs .... not that I was gonna dispute the number and count them myself - I'll let him win that one :o)

I was told to get some photographs in here by a mate and .... well ... I might do so if I am feeling brave! I have only just passed this blog site to one or two 'trusted' peeps .. I am a shy chappy and I am careful about who I want finding out more about me .. hahaha .... says me with a blog on the web PMSL.

I must get rid of my car and get a new one. I keep stalling and hoping it will just happen for me .. but I don't think the "new car fairy" is gonna visit me soon ..... sh*t ... I need to get a grip and get rid ... It's only a fecking car FFS.

Right .. enough for now ...... I need to be fed and watered and head to the salon for some tlc :o) It is the time of month that I secretly love and dread .... I love the pampering .... glass of wine when I arrive and well looked after .. but dread because working in a school ... there are lots of heads with little creepy crawly visitors and I am petrified I get them and they are discovered whilst I am sitting in the hairdressers chair hahahaha ...thankfully in the ten years of working in school ... I have NEVER had the nits :o) here's a little piccy .... I bet your head starts to itch ... mine has :o) hahaha

The holidays are HERE!!!!

3pm ... school bell rings and the satff carpark was cleared before the kids had even left the building - that is how much we in the teaching profession regard our precious holiday time!

I know there will be comments about 13 weeks of holidays every year ... BUT ... those not in the know think we start work at 9am and finish at 3pm ... OH HOW I WISH this was the case. I am in my office most mornings before 8am and never usually leave before 6pm - except the last day of term when I disappear pretty damn quick.

2 weeks of peace and quiet - teaching has had a contraceptive effect on me ... I can hand them back at 3pm to their parents ..... but I certainly don't want to have them running about my house too .....



anyway ... I digress (again)

EASTER HOLIDAYS .... do you remember painting boiled eggs and rolling them down a grassy hill in the garden or local park??? Here's a wee funny (well, I found it funny anyway)