Busy

A bit too busy to update this one for the last couple of weeks. So here it goes an update of the whole month of January. But first need to check my Dutch version to see what has happened again. I spend most of my holiday reading up on some papers. Apart from, of course, socializing. The weekend after I got back went to Gullane by train to try and mend a bike which unfortunately didn't work. So spend most of my time helping with making marmalade. We had to take the train because there was possibly snow on the forecast. Which makes it more exciting but also makes you want to grab a train. Sunday didn't do anything special. Went to a market to buy some stuff and that was basically all there was to do. On Monday went to my first taekwondo lessen in half a year. All the way down in Leith. Took me some time to find but in the end found it. The only small issue was (or is) taekwondo is literally down in Leith. Which means going there is great fun going back not so much. Especially after my first lesson. Cycling up a hill with a strong head wind. Luckily that head wind lasted for a week and not the whole month. Had a deadline by the end of the week so spend the rest of the week report writing. With on Thursday and Friday speed writing. Saturday went to Blackford hill. A small hill in Edinburgh were you get nice view over the city. After that had a bit of waste of money. Bought a magazine that described a walk up Ben Nevis. Great magazine it was only when I looked a how to enter for the prices that I saw the magazine was from January 2014. Sunday went up Arthur's seat. Nothing special but that changed for dinner. Squabbit pie. Which was really nice. On both Saturday and Sunday we had the idea to go to the Pentlands but something else came up.

Apart from taekwondo on Monday, Dancing on Thursday I now also started dancing on Tuesday. Great fun to do only a bit more difficult. Also it takes away time you could spend on writing your blogs. Okay continuing on. During the week nothing special happened apart from a Burns' night on Friday. With a lot of haggis. Great fun haggis and a ceilidh. On Saturday we walked a bit of the John Muir way. The part from Dunbar back to North Berwick. It was a bit of a race because of the ceilidh we started a wee bit to late so we had to race to get to North Berwick before the dark. Ah well still great fun to do and seen a lot. Even seen some police. They asked us whether we'd seen a guy in camouflage clothes with a black labrador. Nope sorry just another guy with a different dog. And we both went our separate ways again. After 15 miles we arrived just in time in North Berwick. Had a lazy Sunday on which nothing special happened apart from walking to the market.

And that brings us to last weekend. Went dancing on Friday evening as a dem for the Foreign office and some other thing which involved a lot of students. Great fun to do only I forgot some of the dances. Also after such a dem it is important to make sure that your quickly moving away otherwise they line up for a photo with a guy in a kilt. On Saturday spend most of my time either trying to help with baking or baking myself for the annual ball of that evening. The ball went great. The first half was difficult the last half was easy. Now I'm forgetting the run of Saturday morning. Which was a quick 10k run and I have to say it went rather well. And another lazy Sunday to recover from all the dancing and the running. In the evening we went to a Mongolian restaurant. Super nice food like lama, kangaroo, buffalo, squid, octopus and much more. Luckily it was quite a walk to get back. After almost 4 hours of food you are rather full and love a nice walk back.