Big Weekend

A busy weekend of orienteering with a street event through Edinburgh's old town on Saturday and in Holyrood park on the Sunday. Two great races. The street race was great fun although annoyed to be disqualified (with many others) for going through an out of bounds street.

Max did very well on Sunday coming second on Orange in a very good time.

Hannah also did well on the yellow. The event was also for the East of Scotland Championships and she might have been fastest on the girls U10 event. There's one other female in the results ahead of her but with no age specified.

Cheeky Monkey

Colin, Max and Hannah cycled from home down to Ocean Terminal in Leith on Sunday morning. Nice journey along the Water of Leith. Everyone did very well in spite of minor grumbles about half way. At Ocean Terminal Hannah went on the Totem climbing experience. She's pictured reaching the very top! Well done!

Had a good run in the early evening doing the round of Arthurs Seat in second best ever time.

Bell's Hill

Colin and Max tackled one of the lesser Pentland hills on Saturday afternoon. Clear skys but cold and windy on the summit. Total walk time of 1 hr 15 mins.

In the evening Cherry & Colin went to Glasgow for an excellent Shetland night with a wide variety of musicians each getting 3 songs each. Very good indeed. Shame about the late train back !

May and Percy visiting for a few days.

Great Winter Run

On Saturday morning Max ran in the Great Winter Run in Holyrood park. He took it relatively easy and got a decent time in absolutely freezing conditions. He came in 85th of 118 runners in his age class.

Junior/Senior Relay

Max, Hannah and Colin were out for a very cold run in the Pentlands for the annual junior-senior relay race. A sharp run half way up the hill before the junior runs back, 3/4 way up before the slower senior heads back and then the fast senior (that's me!) goes to the top then runs back. We were all on different teams. The winning team is pictured above.

More Snow

Cherry arrived back from Norwich/Stevenage on Thursday night. Les is stable but has suffered some serious damage to his brain. He recognises people and can communicate but short term memory has gone. Hopefully will get moved to an Edinburgh hospital before too long.

Went out sledging.

Snow

Happy Hannah

Hannah's highlight of the holiday was getting Candy Floss at the funfair near Princes Street. Also pictured in the Ice House.

Oscar nominations 2008

Max & Hannah video at John and Heather's house:

Portobello Promathon

With Colin and Hannah both off top form it was just Max running in the Promathon this year. Max got round the 2 miles course in a very good time of 17 minutes and 21 seconds - more than a minute faster than last year.





Steamy glasses at the end on a muggy new years morning.