Christmas Holidays

Happy New Year. I hope 2006 is a good one for you.

I finally overcame the inertia and returned to Edinburgh on Friday. I spent the whole time since about the 20th of December in Elgin. Optimistically I took my snowboard north with me but, alas, snow was not particularly forthcoming. I did however get out mountain biking on boxing day at Moy (south of Inverness) which was okay. It was fun to be out and about, doing something other than eating and drinking.

Christmas was nice, family at home, pretty chilled, nice times. New Year I cooked a meal for a few friends; Prawns wrapped in smoked salmon with lime beurre blanc sauce followed by finest Moray pork roasted with winter vegetables, garlic mash and cider sauce. Jude (big sister) did Cranachan for pudding which is always a winner. Jude the Pude.

Anyway, there has been so much happening yet none of it is very interesting; Ariel Sharon, Charlie Kennedy, David Cameron and of course Google's latest play for the desktop, Google Pack. I don't have much interesting to say about any of it really. Perhaps after I start back at Uni (tomorrow) then I'll be driven to blog more.

So yeah, 2006. Who'd believe that? Remember when Pulp brought out that 'let's all meet up in the year 2000' song; that must've been years ago. It seems fashionable to blog Resolutions and Predictions for the year ahead. I shan't be doing that though, hostages to fortune. It's going to be a great year though, I can feel it. Excitement and opportunities abound.

Posted by Paul in UK: Scotland: Elgin Travel at January 8, 2006 06:00 PM