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In the middle of weeks of glorious sunshine we organised to have a BBQ. Would you credit the fact that it rained on the day! Didn’t dampen spirits though and we had great fun chatting/eating/drinking with everyone who made it on the day.
Special thanks to Gerhard for assisting with the cooking – his BBQ skills were much appreciated along with the monster sausage he brought – I’ll try to find the name of it as I’m not entirely sure of the spelling…
Thanks to Lorraine for doing much of the organising and to everyone else for helping us get through about a dozen bottles of fizz and wine and numerous tinnies.

Hopefully everyone was still fit and healthy after it.

Lazy day on the Sunday to recover – once we had tidied up and cleaned the barbie of course.

Back on the bicycle today to work off some of the burger calories…

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Happy to announce that Simon and Abigail have had a wee boy
Leon Mackenzie Smith born 25/07/06 @ 19:28

Not be long before Simon has him out on a mini-moto or motocrosser I’m sure

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After a scorching week in London last week, here in the Scottish capital its been almost as bad – well actually nowhere near as warm but still hot!
Its not all an opportunity to top up your tan or finding an excuse for another bbq though as this guardian article points out.
Temperatures in our office were up above 28 Celcius yesterday and they are sitting just below that today.

Just keep drinking lots of water!!!!

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Best with sound to hear what noise Haggis make

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Well more of a tool store than a shed – but anyway – Lorraine and I built it ourselves from flat pack kit at Dobbies. It is now the proud home of lawn mower, hose, compost, and lots of plant pots. (oh, and soon lots of muckle spiders now doubt!)

Compost bin now sits next to Fred and in another year we will hopefully have our very own compost to spread on the garden!

I’m enjoying the sites and smells of London this week whilst on a course and it just happens to be the hottest July on record!

Struggling to stay cool in a classroom of 30 folk, 15 computers, a server and two hefty projectors through the day. And then at night I have a choice of either leaving the window shut to have a quiet but roasting night or to leave it open for a noisy and only slightly less roasting night.

Consolation is that the flat is only 5 minutes walk from the course and 10 minutes walk from the station so very handy.

Thanks goodness the train strike for Friday has been averted as I’m not sure what I would have done.

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