March 08

I thought i'd quickly write an update of what's been happening for us in March. We arrived home from our (fantastic) Chamonix holiday both with colds that proceeded to last the next 3 weeks! That meant we needed to have a few quiet weekends. The first weekend in March came and went, we didn't do much. Marigold visited us on the second weekend, which we were thrilled about. She arrived in at the Waverley train station in the early afternoon, where we met her. We took her on a slow walking tour of the old town, up to the Edinburgh castle and around the back side through the Princes St gardens and then down the hill to our flat in Stockbridge. We took most of the afternoon to do so, which was lovely and relaxing. The weather was ok, cold but bearable. We had visited the butchers in the morning so had a lovely piece of lamb prepared for a roast dinner which went down a treat! The evening was long and full of very enjoyable conversation. The next morning we shared breakfast before Marigold left for the next leg of her journey to visit Owen and Hannah in Cambridge, which by all accounts was lovely! We enjoyed a quiet Sunday together. On Wednesday night we picked Zoe up from the airport for her stay with us for Easter. Angus and I managed to get the Thursday off work too, so we had the whole time together. During the next four days we did some walking around the city, visited the Pentland hills (where we were hailed and snowed upon and almost got blown away), the Roslyn chapel (lovely and definatley worth a visit, it is amazingly filled with sculptures, on every single wall there is a different set of sculptures, all stunning!), North Berwick, on the coast with lovely views but a brisk cold wind, and we had Tony & Sue & Josh for a 'family-style' Easter lunch on the Saturday which was a great success. It was a lovely time and it was only the weather which tried to spoil our plans! Angus and I went to dinner on the Sunday evening to an organic restaurant which was very nice. The following weekend we were meant to visit some friends in Dundee but that got cancelled so we had another nice quiet weekend at home, visited a museum and did some shopping. Now April is upon us and we have a lot planned to keep us busy, and even more in May and June! Au Revoir for now from Edinburgh ;-)