Finding Fun - Wk 2 - Houses

I knew I was going to keep this post until after I could make my announcement about moving. As you can imagine houses are very much on my mind at the moment. Normally when a minister moves the church has a manse and you just move straight into it, no problems. Not this time though. The church we are going to have decided to sell their manse, so it looks like we will be going into rented property for a time. We are going through to Edinburgh next Friday to look at some houses and hopefully we will be able to decide then.

I thought it would be fun to think about how many houses I have lived in since I was born, sadly I don't have photos of them! I was born in Broxburn, West Lothian, so house number 1 is there (only for 6 months mind you). Then we moved to Selkirk in the Borders, then to Allandale for a very short time, then we moved on to Kirkcaldy, where my sister was born. Then we moved to Kilbirnie Ayrshire, then on to Kelso in the Borders. You keeping up that's six houses so far! We only stayed in Kelso for six months then moved back to Kilbirnie, while there we stayed in two different houses (that's us up to 8). We then moved to Greenock. When I was 22 I struck out on my own and moved to Glasgow, I stayed in two different bedsits during that time, (that makes 10 now). Before my wedding I moved back home briefly, back to Greenock - but to a different house as my parents had moved. That makes 11 houses before I was married at the age of 27.

Married life started off in Partick Glasgow, then we moved to New Cumnock Ayrshire and then here to Stranraer, where we have been for 12 years.

That makes a total of 14 houses so far in my life. How many houses have you lived in?

Finding Fun Wk 3

Over at Carolyn's blog Finding Fun Week 3 was about having fun in the kitchen. So of course we had to make something to eat! Yesterday Andrew and I decided to do some simple iced biscuits as we seem to have a lot of packets of digestive biscuits in the cupboard - they must have been on special offer some time. We did make a lot more than these six but they were eaten before I could take a photo. Will need to make some more soon!

Finding Fun Wk 1

As I mentioned in an earlier post Carolyn is hosting a six week event called Finding Fun. I missed Week 1 last week, which was about Walking, so I thought we would catch up today. It was a lovely day today so we went for a walk along Sandhead Beach and took these photos. We had great fun - climbing over rocks and  looking in rock pools for crabs.

Finding Fun

I am sure you will agree that we could all do with some FUN in our lives. A chance to just play and maybe rediscover the child within you. Well if that sounds like fun then head over to Carolyn's blog. Carolyn is hosting a 6 week event, where every week she will choose a theme and invite us to have FUN with that theme. Full details are on her blog.

Hope to see you there.