Smiles 365:365

It's been a year of two halves - Swiss and English. Lots of smiles along the way - tears too or I wouldn't be human, but lots of smiles and laughs.

Happy New Year to you all and thank you to my lovely boys for providing so many of the smiles, many unrecorded. 

I'll leave you with some of my favourite pictures from this year. But I'll be back tomorrow, by popular demand, with ...

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And here's the link to all the photos from the year!

Smiles 357:365

Leaving snowy Scotland didn't make me smile but I take lots of smiles home with me. 

The look on Jude and especially Isaac's face as they were handed kiddie bags in Bella Pasta today was priceless!

And discovering that John had bought First Class tickets for the return trip made us all smile, especially as the journey was much longer than it should have been thanks to the weather. Never mind, I've had two glasses of Prosecco... ;)

And we did make it home in the end.

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Jude creases me up with his facial expressions!

And I noticed this evening that there's a mouse house in the skirting board!

Lots of Scottish smiles today - running in the sleet and snow with the wind in my face but a beautiful view; delicious food at every turn; laughs with my family and a good hot bath!

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I ❤️ Scotland

That's Glen Nevis. 

And this is us on the way up Ben Nevis (we didn't reach the top!)

Just beautiful - and the road through Glen Nevis is brilliant. A great surface and it has humps and switchbacks and had us all screeching. 

Great bacon and haggis sandwich here - thoroughly recommended!

Then a walk around our bit of Loch Leven. Plenty of seaweed fun for the boys, only curtailed by the fast falling darkness.

Off out for seafood dinner soon. Oh I do like being on holiday!

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Lots of smiles today! I'm on holiday :)

Glasgow - a statue with a traffic cone in front of GoMA. 

Loch Lomond (cue singing)

Made it to the cottage.

Meet Glen Cow (and Mango of course!) Love a cow!

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On the way to Glasgow on the train. We're all sitting playing with mobile devices. Currently in the Lake District. Not that we can see anything as it's very dark!

Today was a hard day for a few reasons but my colleagues were lovely and very caring, and I survived (with a wobble in the middle!) 

I smiled because...

Y5 and 6 did brilliantly in their carol presentation to other year groups. 

My class this morning loved the Turkey challenge. And colouring!

I enjoyed watching Pixar shorts in the "overflow chill out room" from the party this afternoon. I didn't realise there were so many Pixar shorts - and thank heavens for Youtube!

I'm on the way to Scotland. The mountains and lochs are calling! 

I was given a free cup of tea as the lad had already cashed up his till. 

John's obsession with salmon also amused me no end!

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After a Twitter exchange about Scottish songs that started with Loch Lomond via Ye cannae shuv yer granny aff the bus, Ali Bali Bee and Bee Baw Babbitty to the video below, Three craws! Happy memories of childhood with Grandma and Grandpa singing to me, with square sausage and Scottish bread sandwiches and Tunnocks wafers!




Other things that made me smile today
A good run with running group.
A pleasant chat with one of the dads at school about life the universe and everything.
Big hugs from the boys for buying their favourite food!
A new Zumba top.
The Kelly episode of Cheers - shame John missed it as he was at the airport.

Smiles in other languages
In Azerbaijani - gülümsəmək