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Spent the first few days of the Easter holidays in the Inverness area.  Fair on the Monday.  Tipped it down on the Tuesday.  Sunny on the Wednesday as we drove home.  Typical!  However, despite the rain, look what we discovered in a rainy Loch Ness.  Can you believe it!!!!

Falkirk to Linlithgow and back - almost

What does a family do on the Saturday of Easter weekend?  Get the bikes out, of course!  Although the weather forecast was pretty grim, we loaded the bikes onto the car and headed up to the Union Canal.  Walking through the tunnel was fun - especially since it's now lit up and the reflection of the ceiling in the water looked like a cave.  The rain didn't come on until Redding, but didn't last long.  We eventually got to Linlithgow and had our picnic at the canal basin watching the model boat club sailing their boats.  Starting on the way back, we all felt a bit sore and stiff.  Adam and I pushed on ahead and the others walked the first bit.  Adam and I then drove back to find Anne, Hannah and Calum.  Suffice to say that Redding Industrial Estate is the best-hidden industrial estate in the world!

Nine years on

Calum and his friends had a great time zapping each other at Megazone.  Dad participated in the first session, and came second-last - time to bow out!  Best present - fishing rod and gear, which he's now desperate to try out.

The big 13

Hannah has become a teenager.  Help!!!  She had a pampered sleepover with some of her friends - and amazingly there weren't too many hysterics.  Only seven years of emotional roller-coasters to go.

Ladies in Dublin

Eileen and Anne went to Dublin in February to celebrate a certain birthday with a zero at the end (for Eileen - not Anne!).  They saw lots of historic sights (OK - some) and enjoyed themselves quite a lot!