Im sorry this is like 8 days late but things have been pretty hectic here.
Had an excellent holiday period with loads going on but now need a holiday to get over it all.
This year we were remarkably well prepared for Xmas having done much of our shopping in Novermber when the 2 of us had a few days off. As usual there is always a few last minute things that had to be done but on the whole we were able to settle down on the 24th and have a chilled out day.
Santa as always was good to me with a Scotland top, New footie boots, Ipod tuner and the final 2 series of the X-files on DVD (to complete my set) finding their way under the tree for me. The top present though was undoubtedly the rotating optics kit i recieved.
I took a fair hammering on Xmas day and the week that followed.
For dinner we had mine & Gill's parents as well as Fiona & Calum down. - 3 down on last year but still a big dinner nonetheless. As usual Gill served up a fantastic spread which probably has went a long way to undoing all the good work in the gym in October & November.
In between Xmas & New Year we managed to get out to see........
Kirk, Harris &
Alyssa
As well a night in with The Gaffneys & The Reilly's.
Hogmanay
By the time the bells came round Morton had won 2 difficult games over the festive period ( agreat reason to celebrate), The boy had gotten let loose on Glasgow with very drunk results & the Houtens had arrived from Ireland to bring in the New Year with us.
Party at our for the bells with most of the family in attendance (Jade was stuck in Ireland due to work, Charlie & Jillian were skiing in France and Steven & Gary were too hip to be seen partying with us) Christine made it along though as well as Fiona, The Smiths, The Websters, The Ogilby's, The Houtens and Brian.
Since then i've been back at work almost week and it all seems such a distant memory, The Ton won at Dumbarton, The Houtens left, Jade visited, We bought a new car & Barry came back after 4 months at sea
Almost forgot -probably most importantly we got our reference number in for Canada - This was earlier than expected as we thought it would take around 3months before we got a reply - Hoepfully the rest of our application goes like this.
2006 is a big year for us with hopefully major progress with our application - We're also hoping to get over to Canada in early summer. Our application is being processed all we have to do is wait - it could take up to 3 years but were hoping that its a lot less than that.
From a Ton point of view only promotion would be satisfactory for 2006 - couldn't face another year in the 2nd. At present we sit in 2nd place 5 points off of Gretna who have a game in hand but face them this Saturday (14th) nothing less than a win will suffice or we will be pinning our hopes on the lottery of the play off's.
Happy New Year and all the best for 2006 - Andy x
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