My life in a spin

I know I have been slacking recently but things have been hectic without anything really major happening.

Last weekend we had the Gaffney's at ours - 1st time all 5 of us have been together for about 6 weeks or so. Just had a quiet night but it was good catching up. Alyssa is growing up so fast she is wandering around exploring everywhere and has also developed a Diva-style tantrum to ensure she gets her own way. :)

(some pics of Alyssa to follow)

On Sunday as the great weather continued we had everyone round for a BBQ - nothing fancy just mass produced charred food.

In between times the football pre-season got underway ( I was begining to get
withdrawal symptoms during the 2 weeks since the World Cup final) Morton played a Morton 1995 select team as well as St. Mirren & Sheffield Utd. in the space of 9 days all at Cappielow.

They then hit the road with games against Partick, Morecambe & Barrow over 5 days across the weekend.

All in it appears to have been a succesful pre-season schedule with players looking sharp and new signing Jamie Stevenson settling in well. 1st game of the season is at Cappielow on Saturday versus Raith and will have a more thorough run-down on the Ton by then (I know how you all like to keep up with Greenock's finest)

Football aside the past week has been taken up with gardening or sorry landscaping the garden and the worrying thing is that we're not even halfway there. Decided a couple of weeks back to re-locate the entrance to front of the garden - This then progressed from a simple case of a bit of welding work on our fence and a few new slabs to a full scale landscaping job.

Let me just clarify something we're not talking a huge expanse of ground here (Think more postage stamp) but the problem is more the lie and shape of land. After many days and nights with a spade and spirit level we are now ready for phase 2 - Foundations are in place and the materials have been ordered

The plan is before we head off to Toronto our front garden will be monoblocked and walled with a convinient slopping path replacing the pram unfriendly stairs (the motive behind it all). Hopefully by that time my arms and hands will stop squealing out in pain with every movement - we can but hope :)

G is doing ok - seems to have as many good days and bad days and at times it getting her down. She's also worried that the sickness is never gonna go away.

Got my Niece over with us at the moment from Ireland - She is hoping to go to Uni in Edinburgh next year and is trying to get placements sorted for this year to ensure she qualifies for entry to the speech therapy course at Napier.

Mum is 70 later this month and after months of talking about it she has finally decided to allow us to throw her a party (tough decision I know) - So cue loads of runing aroudn trying to get a party organised in 2 & 1/2 weeks

With that and our holiday a couple of days later its gonna be a very hectic month :)