Miranda Hart and our holiday Part One!!

Yay! We have a bit of technology at last!!!! Although we still haven't got any broadband connection (thanks to a complete let down by the provider, no names mentioned here but we will probably doing the necessary complaint letter to the relevant department at some point), we have been provided with a limited back-up wi-fi device until we get sorted. Who knew that you relied on the internet so much?

So I can at least update this blog a bit better for the next few days, and hopefully catch up on a bit of our holiday, and the books I've read as well.

This afternoon, however, I didn't have time to do any catching up online as we all went to see Miranda Hart in Manchester. For those of you who haven't seen her, go - she was so funny and involved the audience far more that I thought she would. I haven't laughed as much for quite a while.

I've added one book review for now, by Mark Wallington - one of the books I read while we were on holiday.

Ah yes, the holiday….. Feels like a lifetime ago already and yet it's only been a week since we got home. Up to South-West Scotland - Gatehouse-of-Fleet - to a lovely cottage overlooking farmland and hills. It was lovely. Apart from the weather. After arriving on the Saturday as it was going dark, it started raining and continued raining throughout the whole of the first day there.

Monday, however, was a completely different day - blue sky and sun! So we all went off to Glen Trool for a lovely walk round Loch Trool. A beautiful day, which I'll write more about on my walks page. All I'll say for now is that we took longer than we thought we would to get round, mainly delayed by the amount of Geocaches we managed to find.

Then Tuesday was also quite a good day to start with, so DH and myself took Oscar out for a walk on our own - DD wanted to stay in the cottage and chill, so we left her with Molly, to give Molly a bit of a rest. We headed out to walk up Cairnsmore of Fleet - all 711m (or 2332 ft) of it!! The book that the walk is in described it as not difficult. Really?! I can only describe it as one of the hardest walks we've done - no rest on the climb at all, and so cold at the top!! But we did it, and I'll put photos up soon.

Wednesday and Thursday were very wet days - rain, drizzle, more rain, more drizzle - so all we did was drive round in the hope we could catch a dry spell, although we found some lovely places to keep dry in, which I shall explain in Part Two.

On that note, I shall leave it for today and hopefully be able to add Part Two of our holiday tomorrow night …….