Pippi’s pulling up her stripey-socks for the final sprint towards the Good-Life……………

Kittikins

The cinema trip was great, we saw The King's Speech which was fabulous and MrA's a total sweetheart - meeting him tomorrow for lunch at the village pub, lucky me

Definitely need an early night tonight, sleep well everyone x

Lemon_Tree

Pippi if a person was to come and visit you where would the sleeper train need to arrive at in Scotland and how would you progress from there?

Cheery_Daff

How lovely Kittikins

As far as I'm concerned you can call me Dr Cheery starting now As far as the university's concerned, it'll probably be a few weeks :rotfl: but they don't count

Keiss_21

Well done Dr Cheery....very impressed!!

Hope you're not being blown away Pippi (and all others north of the border)...a bit breezy today/tonight!!

Ooh all this talk of Scotland is making me homesick!! Actually that and trawling through loads of Orkney cottages online to see if any are available when we want, for up to 5 people and a dog. It's proving a bit troublesome at the moment!!

Life would be easier booking-wise if DS1 and GF were not coming, as 3 people and a dog are much easier to find a place for!! It would be nice to have them with us though, they are both lovely people...but we'll see. They still haven't let us know if they want to come or not...but we must book soon if we are to get anywhere!

On the topic of Orkney, DH found this link, thought you might like it too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM5uTU8cCBc

Have the volume up as the music is wonderful...Saylon Dola by Chameleon, never heard it before, but love it!

Hope everyone has a cosy, if not calm night...night, night x

Keiss_21

Lemon_Tree wrote: »

Pippi if a person was to come and visit you where would the sleeper train need to arrive at in Scotland and how would you progress from there?

LT - the sleeper gets you as far north as Inverness...then you have to take another train or a bus (bus station a couple of hundred yards from the train station) up to either Wick or Thurso. You then need to get to one of the ferries to Orkney:Pentland Ferries or Northlink Ferries

Personally I tend to use Pentland Ferries...it's a shorter journey and cheaper too...and they have a new catamaran!!! It's also a few miles closer to where my dad lives. If you want to see the "Old Man of Hoy", they you will need to get the Northlink Ferry from Scrabster which is a few miles outside Thurso, while Pentland Ferries leave from Gills Bay, 4 miles west of John O'Groats. Ofcourse if you are on foot and going across in the summer months, then you could get the "peedie boat" from John O'Groats itself (17 miles north of Wick). It's the cheapest option too, with a bus at the other end to take you to Kirkwall...and there often is someone giving a talk about the various sights you pass on the way.


Ooh, I have just found out you can get a bus direct from Inverness to John O'Groats, then onto the ferry all the way to Kirkwall!! Problem is, it leaves Inverness an hour before the sleeper gets into Inverness...so you have to hang around Inverness for 6 hours!! You'd be better off getting an earlier bus or train.

It's not easy getting "up north" ....I grew up 9 miles south of John O'Groats, so I should know! It is much better than it used to be though, in places. Just a note...the bus takes about 2 hours less to get to Wick/Thurso than the train!!!

Hope this helps, and I haven't confused you too much!!

Good luck with your travel plans. x

Oh dear...what a lot of rambling tonight from me...sorry!!!

chevalier

unixgirluk wrote: »

There's not really much that will improve my home life unless my OH stops being so selfish or I go it alone. That is really rotten for you. Does he know he is being a selfish git?

I did get a better job and I'm loving it. So nice to have some money again but I'm left paying for everything and the current situation is draining my finances as he won't realise its not our problem. :j:j:j:jTo the new job, but :eek::eek::eek:to you being left to pay for everything. Why is that happening. I think I have missed something about the current situation.....


We're supposed to be having our own child and thats never going to happen whilst we have this situation going on. Told him he needs to leave it alone and he says he will then does the opposite! Of course there is telling him, and the REALLY TELLING HIM. As in if you don't stop doing this, we will have a problem staying together...

Thanks for the prayers Chev, they obviously worked for the job. Can you ask the universe to take this mess out of my life now?

Hello universe, please let Unixgirls OH realise he is being a total tw*t and needs to realise he is risking losing the wonder said unixgirl, so he better start listening to her soon.

Good luck I hope you can have a 'proper grown up chat' about things, so that he realises what a problem he is causing.

chev

Pippilongstocking

Lemon_Tree wrote: »

Pippi if a person was to come and visit you where would the sleeper train need to arrive at in Scotland and how would you progress from there?

You can go via Aberdeen or via Thurso.

I see keiss has replied with most of other stuff.

There are several routes plane ferry train etc - if booked far enough in advance tbh the plane can often be the cheapest option.

I have a 'how to get here sheet' with all the options.

I can email it to anyone interested!

Uni x - I'm asking the universe for sense for you too

Gusted at it's height at 82 mph last night:eek:

Some things I planted have actually blown out of the garden soil.

Couldn't sit in living room last night due to the noise and wondering if house would take off.

Hope chickens ok

Hope if it's been windy with you - you are all ok!!

Xx

La_escocesa

Crikey! :eek: to that wind! Hope the chickies are ok too. xxx

Keiss_21

Glad you survived the night Pippi...it's quite scary when you see double glazed windows wobbling!! I remember not being allowed to sleep in my bedroom sometimes as it was at risk from being smashed into if the greenhouse took off!

Don't laugh, three did over the years!! :eek: None hit the house thank goodness!! In one "good easterly" the greenhouse door ended up embedded three feet in the ground 200 yards away in a neighbour's garden!! :eek::eek:

Thanks for including Aberdeen in the ways of getting north...I keep forgetting it, only been there twice in my life...both times on my way to Dyce (the airport)!!

Off to sort out the debri that got blown about in the garden last night..looks like a waterbutt by the greenhouse has fallen over It has a faulty tap, so was likely mostly empty...a ripe target for the wind

See you later over the weekend.

greenval

Hope everyone is ok, especially Pippi and the chickens and Peedie, he's only little, he mnight need some ballast:eek: