Year Round Commuter, Cyclist and Adventure Seeker.

Well I'm enjoying a week off. This week I'm planning the following - - paint Euans room. Get him a new bed, sort room out and finish Tues night. - Wed - Glasgow pm. Rake around shops, usual visit to apple store then quick beer with Brian then back. Lol - Thurs- Paint our room, sort junk out and finish Fri am. Fri PM - Valet car with the stuff I bought. Lol. Obv this depends on the weather. Sat AM ? Bike hopefully. Sat PM- dinner and out with pals for a bevy. Sun- fook all. Now thats the plan. As I write this Euans room almost done so I've started as I mean to go on. Lol. Have a good week. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone Location: Welton Rd,Mauchline,United Kingdom

True Friendship Scottish Style. When yer sad a will help ye get pished an get the bastard that upset ye. When yer blue a will try tae dislodge witever is choking ye. When yer scared a will rip the pish oot ye every chance a get til yer no. When yer worried a will tell ye how much worse it cud be til ye stop moaning. When yer sick stay the fuck away fae me. When ye faw a'l laugh ma fuckin heid aff but a'll help ye up. This is my oath a pledge it tae the end "why" ye may ask: Coz yer ma pal. Send this tae 10 of yer closest pals. Then get depressed cause ye can only think o 4. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone Location: Welton Rd,Mauchline,United Kingdom

Each year for a few days I like to get into the spirit and celebrate the birth of the national baird of Scotland- Rabbie Burns. – 25th January for a few days anyway.. Living in the village where he lived and during at what time he was his most prolific, has a special meaning..- Mauchline I’ve always said that this should be our national day of celebration, celebrated as a bank holiday but will I ever see that in our time. I doubt it lol.. Last Sat I invited 6 friends, and inc my family we had 10 for a small burns supper…, dinner chat and drinks. We all wore a bit of tartan, ‘piped the haggis in’- Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o' the puddin-race! Aboon them a' ye tak your place, Painch, tripe, or thairm: Weel are ye wordy o' a grace As lang's my arm. said grace and enjoyed a 4 course feast of haggis, neeps, tatties, soup, steak pie and finished off with homemade profiteroles by Maryann.. My oldest ...

Enjoying 2 mid week days off. Painted the first of the 4 bedroom planned to do by the end of the week I am off at the start of Feb. Nearly broke my back putting the wardrobes back. lol. Sensible thing would have been to get some one to help me but oh no, not Alex lol.. I opened a cabinet in Andrews room that was our old hi fi cabinet where we normally used to store all my CDs etc. I swear Ive not been in it for 2 years. lol. Holds a collection of about 100 CDs, everything from genesis singles, (yes when the released songs lol), to the dizzy hits of Ibizia hits 2002. Clearly the rhythm here is that Ive not bought CDs for years, and I think back as to how many thousands I spent on wages on CDs. Anyway I'll look through them and see if there is any ripping to the ipod lol... Today- More relaxing. Nip into town and get the stuff for Sat's burns supper lol... Anyway back to my toast and coffee.. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPad Location: Welton Rd,Mauchline,United Kingdom

Well. That's it. The holiday for 2011 is booked and we are off to Cyprus on July 17th for 2 weeks. After 5 days of OCD looking we found our holiday. We visited here back in 2006 and we are heading back to a hotel near to where we were the last time in the resort of Pathos. As the English schools have not broke up yet we got a good deal with a flight from Manchester. The 5pm flight means we can leave in the morning so avoid any over night stay. So thus very much looking forward to what hopefully will be a very good holiday. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

0119. Last nights 11 hr sleep now haunting me. Up for work in 5ish hours. #fail. Can hear Andrew muttering. Euan snoring. It's dark as I type this. Windy and wet outside. Lying thinking. I fancy a piece n cheese. Haha. Random blog of shite. Night all!! - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Back at dentist today. Quick visit. But highlight was the wee dental nurse remembering me fae last fri and asking how my weekend in Aviemore was. I thought. 'that was nice'. Have a good weekend all. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

One of those days that just went on and on and on. Lol. Very quiet. Boring boring boring. Welcome to day after 11.1.11. However 11.11.11 we be a good day. My birthday. Lol. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone Location: Welton Rd,Mauchline,United Kingdom

Quick review of my Zaggmate keyboard. I bought this online from the American website at the end of november as it was almost brand new to the market and I could not as see anywhere in the UK to buy it... Downsides first- took 6 weeks to get here, then I was hit with a 24$ UK tax charge which I had to pay the post office before I got my hands on it, so overall its cost me a lot more than I liked. A mistake I wont repeat. Positives: Keyboard is very responsive via bluetooth. Almost instant. Connection to the ipad is a doodle, and what I like more about it is the fact it doubles as a case for the ipad also. only gripe I think I have is that I think it will scratch easily. This is really the first time I have used it. and I like it. So all positive apart from the tax bill grr... lol - Posted using BlogPress from my iPad Location: Mauchline,United Kingdom

January always is the most depressing month of the year. It's widely reported online and it the press as fact. Everyone has that financial hangover from the credit cards etc from Christmas. It's dark, wet, snowy, miserable, dire. Everyone moans about being bloated, over weight- and by week 2 of the month all the resolutions are broken and we still groan and well moan? Much of this fact is true. Was reading in the paper today that there has been a 40 per cent increase in holidays getting booked for the summer this year. My goal by the end of January is to be included in this crowd. For the first 2 weeks in August. So come hell or high water. Our hol will be booked. I hope Maryann agrees lol.. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone Location: Mauchline,United Kingdom

Can't say I've done much today. 1 of those days off where nothing at all has been accomplished. Lol. Well those days are allowed on a rare occasion. Back to the grind the mora. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone Location: Mauchline,United Kingdom

Just back from a great weekend in Aviemore. After fri nights big snowfall, we thought that getting there was going to be a nightmare, but we left before 9am, and got here in under 3 hrs. We had lunch in the town then we went for a wander about. Lol within 20 mins Euan had a new hat, gloves and wellies as we had not taken them with us. Organised or what lol. Next we bought the sledge. What a hoot that was. Found a cracking hill that gave us some fun for a few hrs lol. We were staying at the Hilton Coylumbridge http://www.hilton.co.uk/coylumbridge Great place. After a swim and sauna we relaxed for a bit then went for dinner and a few drinks. Kids enjoyed their dinner lol. Obviously as it was just after Xmas the hotel was not that busy. There was some dodgy chuckter scottish dancing and only our Andrew could heckle the piper lol. After breakfast we went a long morning walk then some more sledging before heading south. We stopped off in Pitlochry for some lunch, then got back home early...

Quick jaunt to my Grans in Drongan, return trip just under 17 miles. First time I had got to see her over Xmas/NY period so was good to catch up and have a chin wag. My over indulgence beers, choc and food showed ha-ha. And it had been almost 2 months since i had been on it. Well wrapped up lol.. Nice chat over a couple rolls and a nice coffee, then biked back.

Need to update my blog more often. 2011 Resolution! Hope you have all had a good Christmas and New Year. Been good here also as it always has but worked flat out with the normal days off, peak trading eh lol?.. GRR Andrew and Euan done well at Crimbo, with some new bikes. Sure come the summer Ill be showing them how its done lol… Caught up with a couple pals in Glasgow for a boys night at casino and the usual new night out. Till … well lol… Any way starting 2011 on a high. Aviemore break next weekend with wife and kids. Happy new year to you all.. Alex x