Monthly Archives: October 2014

25/10/2014
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Scotland

North of the Wall

It is very irritating the way that work insists on getting in the way of doing the things that I like to do, such as, in no particular order, building things with my son’s lego, rambling incoherently on this blog, and drinking red wine whilst playing the piano very badly. However, this year, to make up for last year’s holiday blip (week at parents – what was I thinking? More to the point, what were they thinking?), we have managed not one, not two, but three trips to Scotland, my favourite country in the world, owing to it being indisputably northern, and beautiful, and quite chilly, with a generally very poor blackberry signal.

Here are some highlights for your delectation. Clink on the first pic to view the slideshow and my scintillating commentary.

Whoop.
Chanonry Point on the Black Isle, where people mysteriously gather…
…to see this kind of showing off.
Cameron’s tea room (http://www.booklochnesscottage.com/Camerons-Tea-Room-and-Farm-Shop.php) in Foyers, Loch Ness. Tea. Cake. Decking. Cows. Shop. Wifi. What else do you need?
Fairly bleak day at John O’Groats…
.. much improved by smoked fish and wine at the Storehouse cafe (http://www.naturalretreats.com/outfitters/john-o-groats/storehouse/)
Dog Falls (maybe?) at Glen Affric
In case you thought I was joking
Paddling at Loch Eck
MV Vital Spark at Inveraray
Walking on Westpoint beach, Kintyre, where we sprinkled the ashes of the Dog, whom we sadly lost over the summer. It was a lovely day and his favourite place. God bless you, you dribbley, growly, messy, loveable old boy. X
Isle of Gigha from the Killean Estate
On (one of) the Twin Beaches on Gigha. Amazing views of Jura, which I don’t appear to have captured, being somewhat occupied with stopping the Nipper from hurling himself into the sea.
Ferry back from Gigha
Cafebarge, Tarbert. Tapas, you say? In Tarbert? Si.
Arran from Skipness Beach. The Nipper, and New Dog, who is an idiot.
Arran from Skipness, as modelled by a lovely idiot.
Kishorn Seafood bar. Seafood platter. Oysters, mussels, squat lobsters, crab, langoustines. Do it.
Bealach na Ba, aka the cattle pass, aka terrifying road between Kishorn and Applecross. View from the top of Skye is totally amazing.
Applecross Bay, with Skye on the horizon xxx
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04/10/2014
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Infertility, IVF & Gestational Diabetes, PCOS

ice ice baby

One of my favourite sayings: As long as my neck’s in the noose, I may as well hang myself. I feel this distills so much British pluck and northern charm into so few words.

Finding myself as I do totally out of control in all aspects of my life, I feel that this is an excellent time to embark upon the next round of our assisted conception saga and accordingly H and I will be commencing a FET cycle (that’s a frozen embryo transfer, fact fans) over the next few months in the hope of generating a second and possibly, who knows, a third ninky-nonk to join the very ninkynonky Nipper.

Accordingly, I have handed over many of our hard-earned pounds sterling to the local fertility clinic in exchange for a box of hormones and syringes, enjoying the look of naked fear on H’s face when they arrived as he no doubt experienced flashbacks to two years ago and me breaking an ironing board with the superhuman strength known only to those on three weeks of buserelin injections.

Since I don’t want this blog to be an IVF blog, not that it’s much of a blog at all at the moment, I have sent up a separate blog here for anyone who is remotely interested (i.e. H) (possibly).

I would however like to publicly express my extreme disappointment that the domain name “iceicebaby” was not available.

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