DON'T PANIC

 Well everybody , i hope you all had a lovely xmas , and the xmas you wanted. I am back in Ardwell , Galloway and at the moment staying with my mother in law for xmas and new year. Its been lovely , the family has been up from all over and i got to see the newest member of the family, my nephew Joseph who is ten months old.. Money is tight , so xmas gifts were small this year and more doing jobs than gifts. Mark is doing well on the boat. The spare berth has been converted into the new kitchen area. Much much easier , with everything side by side. Still some work to finish that. Water bags under the floor have been gotton rid of as they kept leaking and tanks in the side lockers instead. Bow bed area has been stripped right back , insulation put on and covered with a far more pleasing felt. Loads better than the old badly fitted saggy and falling of plastic vinyl stuff. Still loads to do , and hopefully ready for our mid april departure date to France. Still trying to find a

 quickest tyre change i have ever seen. Right this was   The Scottish Hill Rally weekend od 18th of november. It was only by sheer chance i found out about this. Fueling my disco at Castle Kennedy , i was struck dumb [ briefly ] when a couple of 4x4 came in pulling Bowlers on trailers. I have always loved the landrover Bowler.Brilliant off road landrovers are turned in to extremely fast off roaders and can comfortably do well over 60 mph over fields. Now after gibbering and drooling like an idiot to the very understandable guys who had the bowlers , they told me they were heading for a rally at Snt johns town of Dalry near New Galloway and i should go. Well as soon as i got the chance , i went online , put a plea for info on my FB page and went in search of anything bowler related New galloway related and Snt Johns Town Of Dalry related and eventually after much rewording found the Scottish Hill Rally web site and with help fr

Well christmas is coming , And as every year [ though this year i thought it would be the boat ]My car is tinseled > I know , its abit silly but it does make people smile and cheer them up. This makes me happy and i have no problem dealing with all the laughter and pointing. Plus kids love it and the one year i didn't do it , i had some disappointed  children in the area. Its abit sparse looking at the photo but more can be added later HaHa , { evil laugh as Mark hates me doing this and really hates driving it ] Top photo Hamish one of my lovely nephews from my sister. Always doing something . Lovely young lad and proud of him and his brother Angus [ who i will camera catch at some point. Bottom  photo in her parlour gear [ milking  that is] is my wonderful sis Rosie. Sporting the new end of year , highly fashionable milking dungerees hat , to protect the hair from long drop cow pats. And a few delicately placed , normally by the cows tail coo poo splatters. As yo