This morning a couple from our church, Bill and Elizabeth, tied the knot. They both looked great (Bill in his sharp, new, taylor-made suit!) and even the weather was perfect! Here’s a couple of photos of their big day;
A Smiling Elizabeth
The Happy Couple
Congratulations guys!
A.
**PRIVATE**
Lieutenant,
Corporal Catherine and I have just completed Operation White Lightning. As you expected it was a tricky stealth mission under the cover of dark, a dangerous operation which could easily have resulted in fatalities. Fortunately, we were successful sir.
Infultrating Cumming territory proved straightforward, with no signs of life in their street. The mission to ‘zoop up’ Ali’s new £60 SpaceStar was completed with a great deal of satisfaction. The racing numbers, ordered from Demon Graphics - number 40 reflecting the male target’s age - were perfect ammunition. We have captured the mission objectives on film for your inspection sir:
Corporal Catherine mid-operation
Racer Number 40
Operation Complete, time to boost!!
Operation White Lightning - Status:COMPLETED
Captain A.
Our friends, Ali and Sarah have bought a new car. For some reason Sarah has been after a Mitsubishi Space Star for ages, and today Ali surprised her with her dream car! As you can see, it’s a beauty, and she’s already come up with a nickname for it, ‘Saz’s White Lightning’. Nice.
Saz’s White Lightning
It comes with a few after market special features too, which she’s delighted with……
A Unique Water Feature
Specialist Two-Tone Steel Wheels
Customised ‘Mould-look’ Paintwork
80’s Style Seating Is Back In Vogue
“Low” Mileage!
Sarah’s husband Ali has fallen in love with the car, and is looking forward to being driven around:
Ali Prepares To Be Chauffeur Driven
So next time your driving along the M90 and you see a flash of white pass you on your right hand side, you know who it was, and what it was. It was Sarah in her beloved Space Star, sorry, I meant Saz in her beloved White Lightning!
A.
It’s that time of year again! The Premiership kicks off tomorrow, which means one thing - Fantasy Football! The league I’m in has been running for a few seasons now, with the guys taking the opportunity to be childishly competitive and of course to find the best name for our teams. A couple of seasons ago Catherine went for ‘Paris Hilton St Germain’, which was inspired. This year, my team is called Fiorentina Turner XI, which surely means I’ll win, being that I’m ‘Simply The Best’?!
If you’d like to join the league go to HERE and pick your team. When you’re asked the number of the league you want to join, just type in 115375-29279 and get ready for battle!
A.
As Andy was writing sermons today, I decided to head to Glasgow and do some visiting. First on the list were my lovely Grannie and Grandad who live in Cardonald (and you can see Tommy Sheridan’s house from their kitchen window!) The journey normally takes about 50 minutes, but today there was loads of traffic and it actually took an hour and forty. Still, it meant that I got to listen to Queen’s Greatest Hits II all the way through (with plenty time for repeating my favourite tracks) which always makes for a good sing-a-long.
Once I was there, I enjoyed a couple of hours chatting, showing off holiday photos, and munching on homemade pancakes (with the butter spread 6 inches thick - just the way that most old people and I seem to like them!) As I was leaving, the rain stopped long enough for me to get this picture of Grannie and Grandad with the very large hanging basket currently blooming at their front door.
No Grannie is not on steroids, Grandad is just standing on a lower step!
Grannie had told me when I arrived that the man next door had been taking pictures of the basket, and I had assumed it was because he was so impressed by it. Conversation later revealed that he simply had a new camera which he was testing out, and he had even been taking photographs of the other neighbours putting out their rubbish bins! Still, he gave Grannie the resulting prints so I think she was chuffed.
Next I went on a little adventure to East Kilbride using the directions which I got from the AA route finder website. Anyone who has used AA route finder in the past will know that the directions are not always accurate so I had no idea where I would end up. I saw parts of the world I did not know existed, and passed by places I had always heard of but never been to eg. Rouken Glen and Giffnock. Still, I reached my destination (Michelle and Dave’s flat) without any problems although I obviously went wrong somewhere as I approached their street from the left when according to my directions it should have been on the right.
Michelle and Dave (at a wedding - not dressed up for my arrival!)
A cup of coffee and a good chat later, and I was back on the road to Fife. This time my tunes of choice were from The Bodyguard soundtrack. One word = amazing.
Catherine
This afternoon our friend Ali kindly offered to help me get rid of the remains of all the trees and bushes I’d cut down in the back garden a couple of weeks ago. At first glance we thought that it would all fit comfortably into the back of his people-carrier, but in the end it was a really tight squeeze as you can see……
Ali gets to grips with some foliage
At one point, Ali and I lifted up a small platform that sat in the middle of the garden to reveal a massive hole in the ground. The hole is about 4 foot deep and 2 feet in diameter! What’s the deal there? We can only imagine that it was for the fake stream the previous owners had installed (nice!) and which I haven’t properly removed. Madness though - you don’t really expect to find that sort of thing kicking about your garden. Catherine says it reminds her of a rubbish horror film we watched recently:
Andy
P.S. I saved this today:
I’ve named her Catherine; cute in a strange way, but really, really slow
(I’m going to pay for that!)
I was recently at the wedding of my friend Michelle, to her lucky husband Duncan. (Of course, Michelle is lucky too!) I was filming it for them and as a result of having to carry a video camera, carry case, tripod and handbag, I decided to take my old point-and-shoot digital camera as opposed to our larger digital SLR one. Big mistake! It started acting up from the first picture I took until it eventually deleted every single one of them just in time for dinner. And then it point blank refused to take anymore.
That’s why this blog post has been somewhat delayed as I have had to wait for other people to start uploading their pictures so that I could steal them! (Special thanks for the images in this post are due to the Lamonts, Laura Massie and anyone else that they might have borrowed pictures from).
Mr and Mrs Macdonald
The wedding was at Rosskeen Free Church near Invergordon and followed by a reception at the Ben Wyvis Hotel in Strathpeffer. I had stayed there a couple of times before when we used to go on school weekends away, and once upon a time a friend and I had to get one of our teachers and the hotel night manager to smash open our bedroom door after it locked itself shut … Anyway it’s been refurbished since then and I don’t think I had ever appreciated before what amazing views and gardens it had. I’m sure they made for some great wedding photos.
Michelle and Duncan in the Ben Wyvis Hotel gardens
Now Michelle and Duncan are away on honeymoon in Italy. Or perhaps they are back by now, considering how long it has taken me to write this. I’ll leave you with one more photo …
Bride and the Bridesmaids - Nicole and Laura
Check out the bridesmaid dresses. I think they are one of the nicest colours I have ever seen!
Catherine
How do you know when you’re getting old? When a Sunday afternoon kip becomes less of a luxury and much more of a necessity:
Ali enjoys needs his postprandial Sabbath drooling sesh
Andy
Happy New Year to you all (or if you’re one of these strange American people, ‘Happy New Years Y’all’!!)
All the best for 2008 from us both
Andy and Catherine
Below is a link to Howard’s (pictured) mission trip photos. There are some crackers in there……
Andy
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