Being a BP employee,  I am blessed to get every other Friday off, so I spent the morning in the woods with my mates on my bike jumping off stuff.

The afternoon was spent in B&Q choosing Ellis’s paint colour for her nursery – unfortunately I took no pictures of that as it would have been to much for you to take in!!!

Saturday was our first outings as a family to go climbing, we went down to the sea cliffs by Boltsheugh

Baby loved it – has been a long time since either Lara or I have climbed so it was rather hard going but great to be back out.  It was a lovely sunny day and Ellis was more than happy to be there in the sun, feeding as and when need and just being a good baby and letting mummy and daddy play!

Sunday was spent relaxing for Lara as she is still in recovery.  So I grabbed a chance ot go skiing.  I have been reading reports on the interweb of the snow being good in Lochnagar, immediately another decent of Black spout got my attention!  Scott, Matt and Emma were all game to come in with us.

A glorious day, the sun had some heat in it and when we got up to the snow line it felt like I was in the Alps!  We rode form the car park as far as we could and dumped the bikes in the heather.  It was soon evident that the snow was far too hard to ski.  Above is us longingly looking at where we should have been skiing (the prominent gully coming out the cloud spot.  Oh well, it was still a great to be in the hills.  We stashed the skis to take the weight off our backs and set off in search of a easy snow gully to climb.

Red Spout seemed to tick the needs of everyone, and off we went – It is an easy snow climb but gives you some good exposure near the top.  We all got up it and then walked back to the bikes for a speady descent back to the cars.

A great weekend.  Scotland is great when the weather is like this!  Can find all the pictures by clicking here