Brass monkey.

Last Tuesday night I was playing fottball for 2 hours in the freezing cold wind and rain, right.
I gets home and starts to take all my kit off to get into the shower after sitting chittering with the cold on the sofa. Whilst taking the undercrackers off I thought - 'that feels a bit funny' I gives myself a wee touch to make sure everything is ok in the engine room and one of my hee-haws got sooked up inside me!

Totally shat it. It popped out after the longest 5-10 seconds of my life but for a wee while there I was only half a man.

I'm tip-top now though, dinnae worry.

Calvin's first exhibition.

Calvin's school is doing an exhibition of his work for the Christmas fete. Adults and kids donate a wee bit cash to see his work - the money goes to the school's funds. Here's some images of the box he's taking to school today (you can click on each image to see a bigger version). He's got a mixture of stuff in it including a Heffalump, Winnie the Pooh, characters from Disney's Cars, King Kong and Pingu amongst others.

If you want to see more stuff from Calvin you can click on his name here.

Marks & Spencers Christmas campaign.

I'm glad Little Richard got rid of the dopey 'tache for the filming of the M&S Christmas ad. Pictures above show rehersals and the finished thing.

Sharlene's got her jams...

... ready for the Xmas period. Cranberries and blue berries in the pot.

This is a picture before the sugar started to melt and she could give them a stir.

Sh'e got all her pots from Lakeland Plastics and is ready to roll.

Christmas Holly Ollie

Wee Ollie gets into the early Christmas spirit by wearing his new reindeer mask. He's totally up for it this year, I can tell.

Shooting star.

Cheers to Cameron for giving me a borrow of his camera. It's a Canon 300D and takes pretty sweet piccies. I'm going to have to get one and then win loads of awards taking pictures of ladies with the twins oot. Yeah!

Sharlene's got wind.

They'll talk about it in Newtongrange forever. The night the McCluskie's greenhouse got ripped up from it's plastic moorings and turned inside out. Look at the destruction in the photos - you can see the pond has three or four leaves in it. The whole place looks like hurricane Tattie has blown right through.