Peter sent off his final project/paper for his universtity course this morning, which means no more studying! Yay! :) It's so nice to be back to "normal" without the added load of studying for him, though I'm glad he did it! So, after going to the post office to post it, we went for a day out, which was a nice change. It was rather dull, damp and windy most of the day, but still relaxing to be out of the house without anything specific to do! We had some lunch in the cafe at the big Tesco in Inverness and then went out east beyond Elgin; visited a nice folk museum in Fochabers. Abigail especially loved a big model train and wanted to keep going back to see it, and tell the man at the museum that she'd seen a train! :) We stopped at a "beach" along the Moray Coast so Abigail could see the sea, as seen in the photo here. We just about got blown away and it was very cold, and looked like it was about to rain! However, even in this sort of weather Abigail managed to spot a nearby park (she's good at finding them!) and began a long walk across a grassy field to get to it, even though her mummy & daddy were heading for the car! So Benjamin & I followed her on foot and Peter drove the car round to us (just in case we got a downpour!). But we were soon freezing so left and went to ASDA (related to Wal Mart) in Elgin and had some dinner in their cafe. They give free jars of baby food when you buy a meal, so I thought I'd try and give a bit to Benjamin just for fun...but he didn't really fancy it at all, and instead grabbed a couple of chips (french fries) off my plate and had a great time chewing on them! His first "junk food" meal! lol :)
Now it's nearly midnight, so I'm heading for my bed. Abigail is already asleep and Benjamin is hopefully finishing up his long feed to keep him sleeping for at least a few hours!
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Dear cousin...
I'm "about".
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Love,
mark
hehe. mark, that was pretty good:).
Thanks for the comments. Nice to see you're about, Mark! :) lol Seen your blog too...you'll have to do some updating sometime soon, even if just to say what you're up to these days! :)
And thanks for your comments too, Steph! :) Always enjoy your photos and posts! BTW, meant to say don't look too closely at how I was wearing Benjamin in my sling in that photo! lol We'd jumped out of the car very quickly before it rained, so I didn't get a chance to adjust it properly.
lol yall look like yall are like to be blown away! How cuuute about Abigail spotting a park. Clever lassie.
Love you xoxox
Here's something I posted elsewhere:
Just thought I'd mention the Fochabers Folk Museum as it's one of the best around, it's free (donation box on exit), and not everyone might know about it.
We went there yesterday afternoon. I used to go with my elderly mum and occasionally took visitors to Scotland too, but this was the first time we'd succeeded in going since we were married, so Rachel hadn't seen it before. Abigail (nearly 2) liked the train and also noticed the old radios. She'd only just woken up though and was generally rather quiet and subdued (she's been Miss Talkalot lately). Must have been a whole load of totally new (old!) things for her.
So, back to the museum. It's housed in an old church (originally Free Church or United Free, I think). Downstairs there are several small rooms behind glass, including a shop, a Victorian sitting room, a child's room. There is also a lot of stuff that you just walk around, no ropes or anything, so old fashioned "Don't touch anything" is definitely needed - within reason - I'm not suggesting it needs to be taken totally literally - but if kids are used to "hands on" places they need to understand that the exhibits here are genuine old things and would soon suffer if hordes of children handled them. These include a chemist's shop, a Post Office, household equipment, etc etc.
Upstairs there are a large number of old small to medium sized
non-motorised vehicles from Bath Chairs to a horse-drawn hearse. I've never quite worked out how they got them up there.
New since I last visited: the antique shop in the front foyer has been replaced with a "heritage centre" with computers, displays etc - rather out of character with the rest of the museum (whose character has to be seen to be understood) but I guess the museum was as good a place as any to have it. Also the church hall at the back has been opened with new displays of 20th century clothing and an old school room representing the local school, Milne's. Again not quite in character with the wonderfully old style of the rest of the museum.
Fochabers is to the east of Elgin, at the junction of the roads towards Buckie and towards Keith. There is also a Baxters factory and vistors centre there.
Museum open April to September (so just a handful of days left), closed Mondays and only open till 4pm. Full details of opening here:
http://www.fochabers-heritage.org.uk/about.php
which is about the heritage centre. I could find barely any photos of
the museum interior online so you need to go and discover it yourself!
I love your blogs!! Can't WAIT to see you all, dv! tons of love (and missing you sooo much) from Lee xxxxx
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