Year Round Commuter, Cyclist and Adventure Seeker.

Last weekend we went to Arran and enjoyed a couple of days near Brodick. This was a special treat also as we were helping Maryann's mum and dad, Jim and Mary McKellar celebrate their 40th wedding aniversary. We arrived after getting the 1230pm ferry from Ardrossan to Brodick, and MA drove car over to hotel. Took kids swimming. And enjoyed some general R&R. Dinner in the hotel on 2 nights. On the sun MA and her mum went for a spa treatment while I did the cycle. (see other blog post). All had a great time. - and of course happy ruby wedding to Jim and Mary.

Apple just sent out invitations to an event next Wednesday to be held at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Besides the time and location information, the invite only says “We have something you really need to see. And touch.” The words are superimposed on what is almost certainly an iPad. It’s all but a done deal now: Apple will unveil the iPad 3 on March 7. The event is due to begin at 10 a.m. Pacific Time (1 p.m. ET).

So Feb 25th- 27th we headed to Arran for Maryann's mum and dads ruby wedding anniversary celebration with the kids. Ill blog about that later. Part of my trip was the cycle.- Around Arran and try and raise some money for Vanessa's Journey This is a story of a local families will and inspiration to raise £500,000 for their 11 year old daughters fight  against Stage 4 (High-Risk) Neuroblastoma, a very rare, aggressive and difficult to treat form of childhood cancer.  Read Vanessa's story here The guys have done really well, and you can donate to their cause through just giving.com. HERE Connect to Vanessa on Twitter  and on Facebook . As of the time of composing this blog they have raise 475K. in under 50 days. Amazing!! So my trip was a cycle around the isle of Arran. For any reader not local Arran is a small island off the Scottish west coast. Approx 56 miles round.  For anyone that does not know me, I aint fit. I aim to get better. I had not been on a bike for 25 years un...

Welcome to the world - Megan... Our best pals introduced their first girl and no3 to the world today. Megan Rona Jean Nunn- Born this morning at 9.42am. 8lbs 1oz.- both Mum and Daughter doing fine. Another girl in the group... thats 6-4.... Boys were up 5-nil between 2001-2-12 lol.... I call that a boy win - haha.. Congrats to the Nunns. xx

We are going to London in early April over the Easter weekend. If you dont know already. Probably bored you already. Traveling by train on the 0428AM (YES very early) train from Central to London on the Thurs.... back on the Monday evening. Ive been to London at least... 10 times. First time was in 1986 with my Gran... Last visit was 2007.  I love this city... Why not lol. From visits with Gran in 1986 ( I need to upload the photos esp with a pidgeon oan my head in trafalgar sq)... I was 12. - to 4 Scout Camps in 88-93 : Great times. Then with Maryann- a 12 hr tour during our honeymoon in 1998, then in 2005 and  2007..  So the big difference with this time is we r going to most of the big sites. inside and oot. lol- and more importantly with Andrew and Euan for a cultural tour.  Thanks to www.londonpass.com   Cost the free feb council tax bill. but worth it... Cheers. Hammy xx

Any1 that knows me Im a tech geek. on all formats but mostly Apple. I always get excited when you get new Apple updates so was interesting to see the lastest update to Lion.. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NcB21Jr4pw] Ive downloaded the imessage for mac and seems to be pretty stable. I can now send messages directly from here to all through all my  ios devices. Overview of Features: iCloud It just works. In more ways than ever.  In OS X Mountain Lion, sign in once with your Apple ID and iCloud is automatically set up across your Mac. 1  That means right away iCloud keeps your mail, calendars, contacts, documents, and more up to date on every device you use. So when you add, delete, or edit something on your Mac, it happens on your iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. And vice versa. Messages Mac keeps the conversation going.  Messages does everything iChat does, and so much more. For starters, it comes with iMessage. And just like iMessage in iOS, it lets you send unlimited messag...

Appears Valentines Day is also my birthday..... LOL Well on Twitter is is.  I am now 3 years of age and probably middle-aged in twitter terms having racked up over 60,000 tweets lol.   So there you go.....! - Happy #twitterbirthday to me !

Just noticed another 10k milestone coming up. And on the Anniversary of my 3rd year on Twitter. Still like the fact that not everyone gets Twitter. Rock n roll.

Coloured Hair , a photo by lexjah on Flickr. LOL. last nght before the Valentines disco

Quick post to congratulate Eileen's sister, Anna and her husband Shaun on the birth of Ameile Sophia born on Tues 7th Feb weighing 7lbs 3oz. Congrats Guys ! Luv The Hammys xx

Wow. Feb is moving very quickly. Not much happening over next 2 weeks. All work. No play. Working flat outolling 25.2 when I'm off for 9 days. This is when we go to Arran for the weekend, with in in-laws who are celebrating their ruby wedding. On that Sunday I'm cycling around Arran for the Vanessa Riddle appeal. See previous post. I'm currently at over 500 quid. Following weekend we celebrate Euan's 7th birthday with a weekend in Edinburgh with kids seeing the sights. Also the Zoo hopefully.

Took kids a walk down near Failford and headed towards Stair where we would have lunch. At the  The Stair Inn . Today shows me how good a memory Euan has. He said that he had been down here before (well over a year ago) and pointed out the seat where we sat and had lunch. The weather was cold. We all were well wrapped up. Very cold but at the time was dry. Not for long. In total we walked about 4.5 miles. Not bad. The boys celebrated next the the warm fire with sausage chip and beans and a cola lol... A good couple of hours out....