The Folly

And so we decided to drive up to the tower, in retrospect everything in Oban seems further than it is and we probably could have walked but then my foot is still dodgy (more on that another time), I wish I took photos of the tiny roads, but I was in charge of navigation, and that was a full time job! But we made it up to the top of Battery Hill to see McCaig's Tower and the stucture itself was really cool though McCaig did have quite lofty intentions of a museum and gallery to be included, when he died the shell was all that had been built, thus leaving this impressive folly. Thought it was now starting to be the evening, the sun was still shining and lit up the bay beautifully so we could see all the was over the Isle of Mull and beyond.

And so to finish off the night I surprisingly found a vegan resartaunt in the seafood capital that is Oban, and Dixon agreed to go to it with me. So we had amazing Japanese food from Itadakizen, which was delicious!

August Wrap Up

So loads has happened since my last post, the Edinburgh Fringe festival has started, we went down to Rebellion for the Punk Festival, and we had our 4 year anniversary (still sounds mental saying that). 

I haven't been to as many things as I would have liked to this year so far, I'm missing my days out buddy, but it feels like August is just whizzing by this year. The shop has been so busy with tourists that I am mostly so tired after work, it feels like a lot of effort to do anything. But I have succeeded in seeing two things including one that Dixon even agreed to see.  Firstly I saw Paul Foot with Gail and the Nick Helm with Gail and Dixon. Paul Foot was more mental that expected, but still hilarious, I would say you might want to have seen him on things before seeing him all by himself. But Nick Helm was excellent! So much fun.

Rebellion was really really good again this year, especially when I thought there wasn't that many bands that I wanted to see compared to last year. I would have to say that Thursday was the best day for me even with SNFU, DOA, and NOFX on the Sunday Cyanide Pills and Morning Glory where brilliant, and I got a wee photo with Ezra which as you can see I was pretty excited. I defintitely got the piss taken all weekend for that one, but it made my day so I don't care. I would have photos for NOFX and DOA but unfortunately my phone was stolen at the end of the NOFX concert so this is all I have what I sent to friends and things taken on other peoples phones. But what can you do.

So even ending on a down note, it is still one of the best times so I can't complain too much.

And then it was our anniversary, I can't believe it has already been four years, four years and I already ran out of things that I can buy Dixon as a present, so we decided to just do small things and go out for a dinner and a movie. Someone did not stick to that, someone replaced my phone for me, I was so surprised, he is really too good to me. Not only that but got me flowers and chocolates too. 

We did still go for dinner, it was amazing, we went to David Bann's again, and they did magical things with food. I tried many cocktails and new things this time for starters mains and desserts. I am pretty sure the dessert, Raspberry Jelly with Mint Sorbet and Amaretto Figs was the best thing I have ever eaten, and Dixon couldn't complain about the Budvar either, he doesn't really do dessert. And we topped the evening off with Guardians of the Galaxy, which I thought was excellent, and Dixon had a nice nap. We maybe shouldn't have eaten so much.

I've also done a bit of drawing, but I'll talk about that later.

Junes Recap

So this post is mostly a photo dump of what I have been up to lately, I just haven't been focuses on gettting stuff up here, maybe I need to do another 100 Days Happy and then I will definitely get my posts up! We will see about that. I think that is the second post of June, better late than never! So lets recap my June!

So Dixon and I did some DIY in the house, our spare room was slowly just filling with clutter and he really wants it to start to look nice, I am not too fussed by having our spare room look good just yet, I mean we don't have any planned house guests as of yet... Anyway it was still really nice to accomplish something, though it was gorgeous outside and I really would have rather been working outside than in. But you can't have everything!

Caryn's friend came over with her friend, so I got to show them around a little bit, and we went to Mary Kings Close, and she also brought with her a fantastic Care Package from my lovely sisters. Which included Tim Horton's cappuccino mix, which I am having right now, Lego, an excellent original drawing by my niece and a picture of the mentioned niece, as well as a hand egg beater! The beater would make sense if you knew the back story. Anyway we had an excellent day out, though I probably talked to much, I always forget what I know about places if you were to ask me, but seeing them and walking down the streets it all comes back. So hopefully I didn't talk their ears off.

An thus ended the Lego drought of 2014, well actually Dixon, the best husband ever, also surprised me with some Lego, I came home from work one day and there at the top of the stairs was ECTO 1 the new Ghostbusters Lego set, and let me say I was ecstatic!  

Summer is really here, and it seems to be staying, fingers crossed! Which means lunch in Princes Gardens, bees on flowers and relocation of large eight legged visitors from the house, he was huge!!!

And as well as being productive in the house I have been a bit productive with my drawing and painting, here is a new one from the semi sort of series of landscape style drawings I have been doing, and I started painting the first one. I like it in the Black and Grey, but I think that I will probably still paint it in colour. Still deciding. 

And so that has been my June, its been pretty excellent so far, all the ups and downs you would expect from me, though I have mostly just highlighted the ups here, to recap the downs, the DIY went well except for one bit fell off, but thats totally fixable, so we will hopefully get on that soon, I applied for a new job, but unfortuantely it was given to someone else after an extremely successful trial, but I think that I'll be ok and hopefully I will find another opportunity, I think thats all of the downs, so lets end on an exciting up! Tunnoks Tea Cakes are vegetarian! I had my first one this week haha!