Bikini Weather!

Mid April in Scotland is ideal paddling pool weather, or at least the kids thought 12deg was warm enough.

Haddo House

Some friends were across from Pau, France to visit family and friends so we all met up at Haddo House for the afternoon to catch up.

Easter Visitor

Cousin L stayed over a few days this easter.

The easter Bunny left them a little egg hunt in the back garden for when they woke up. Tally for their scramble in the back Garden: B found 13, L found 12 and J found 9 eggs.

Dunnydeer Hill Fort

B's friend had a sleepover last night, so on the way to taking her home we decided to go treasure hunting near her home town of Insch. The first cache was up Dunnydeer Hill Fort, which was quite popular that day with people rolling their easter eggs. Unfortunately I mistakenly typed in slightly the wrong co-ordinates in my GPS so we never found the cache.





Not to be beaten we went to Picardy Stone where we found a cache and exchanged treasures. You can see Jonathan showing off his prize of a finger monster.





Today was only our second attempt at Geocaching, which I think is a brilliant idea to get out and about to appreciate the sites of Scotland local to home. We found two treasure spots cycling distance from our house in Kintore yesterday.

Garioch 10k

Today was my first 10k challenge of the year, the Garioch 10k, which kicked off at 11:30. Training has not been very disciplined of late, but I still managed a respectable 51 minutes, finishing in 234th position out of 528 entrants. With the lighter nights now I will manage to get more miles in and break the 50min barrier at the next event, the Baker Hughes 10k in May.

Thankfully no-one came to cheer me on so no photos of me beetroot faced and gasping for air.

Aviemore

We spent this weekend at Aviemore. Heading up on the Friday we stopped at Landmark in Carrbridge. Great fun in the adventure park, and some lovely views from the Fire Tower.

On Saturday we enjoyed some of the facilities at the Coylumbridge hotel where we were staying, and we also took the Funicular Railway up the Cairngorms and went sledging. Although the weather has been mild recently there was still plenty of snow.

Tyrebagger Sculpture Trail

When I was offshore for the weekend, M, D & K came over for a visit and ended up taking advantage of a nice day, and walking the Tyrebagger Sculpture Trail just a few miles from home.