Mick's brother, Ian, who was best man, has kindly dug out a copy of his speech for the memory box :o)  If you don't know Mick's family, he has three older brothers - Glenn is a retired rector (Scottish headmaster) and is 17 years older than Mick, Ian is 10 years older and Martin is 7 years older, so he really is the baby of the family.

( Speech ahoy )

We temporarily have four horses. Darcy and Yeveed moved onto the derelict croft next door (where Merlin came from) a few weeks ago when their owner needed some temporary grazing for them and Hazel said he could use hers. Last night he knocked on our door to ask if we had any wire cutters as Darcy had managed to get his front feet over the stock- ( Read more... )

One of the slightly more bizarre features of Armadale is a large black pig who roams around the village. She belongs to Hazel and is supposed to live on the croft with the derelict house next to ours, but she discovered a couple of years ago that she could get out under the fence fairly easily and since then she's come and gone as she pleases ( Read more... )

I've been a good wife today. I topped up the log basket, washed Mick's new shirts so he could wear one of them on Friday (they're not dry yet), emptied the kitchen bin, did the ironing and had a cheese and oat loaf just finishing baking when he got in from work ( Read more... )

Taken by my brother-in-law's fiancée last week :o)

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It's been almost two years since I had my initial Invisalign appointment and after Gods knows how many sets of aligner trays, it's finally done :o)  Not DONE done, but my teeth are now in the place they should be - all that's left to do now is make them stay there and let the bite wear into a straight line again (one of the front ones was tilted, ( Read more... )

...a bloke with a 14 ton digger and 24 tons of hardcore - and this is what he did with them:
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Over the past few weeks I've started playing poker again.

I started about six years ago - I could work out exactly when if I could be bothered to go to Quidco, because I only signed up to get the £32 cashback for registering a new account with the 32 Red casino website.  This was in the days before they got wise to the cashback tricks and started ( Read more... )

I'm tidying up the spare room in preparation for visitors and have found the speech Mick made on our wedding day :o)  Just in case the cards ever get lost, I'm copying it here.

( Ladies and Gents, )

1. I don't have a broken foot :o ( Read more... )