Aberdeenshire pics

Not much news this time around - have been busy spending time with friends and studying for the past couple of weeks - not to mention shopping and watching the Olympics! But I have managed to almost complete Issue 25 of PALS, which will be released in a couple of weeks, and to upload a couple of photos from our visit to some castles in the Aberdeenshire area last weekend. See theAberdeenshire Photos section for the new pics!

It's been a while...

...but I've finally got around to adding some articles to the next issue of PALS, and uploading a few new photos to our website. The photos are from our visit to Crathes Castle in Aberdeenshire last month - there's just 3 or 4 of the prettiest ones on the Aberdeenshire section of our Photos Website.

I've nearly completed Issue 25 of PALS too, due out at the end of the month - just one article to write now and a couple of photos to add. Other than that it's been dissertation interviewing/ writing/ harrassing participants all the way, so not much time for anything else right now!

More photos, some newsletter work

Have finally had a productive afternoon! I've managed to finish off putting Issue 24 of PALS together, thanks to receiving the final article from one of my pals for it. It's a long one about teaching English in Korea, but I think it's interesting.

I've also written a short piece about some of the places Dan and I have visited in Scotland over the past few years, and in relation to that, uploaded some more new photos to the Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire sections of our Photos webpage.

Finally, I've added some additional tags to previous posts which mention new photos I've uploaded. Hopefully that will make it easier to find posts on a specific theme if that's what you're looking for. I know it will for me!

I guess that doesn't sound like much overall, but it all took a while! PALS Issue 24 will get uploaded before the end of the month, probably next weekend.

More photos

Not much news this week, but I have had a bit of time to update a few things. I've made an effort with writing the next issue of PALS, and it's nearly ready for release at the end of the month - just another article or two to add now.

I've also added a few more photos from our visit to Drum Castle last weekend - they are on the Aberdeenshire and Aberdeen sections of our Photos Website. Hope you enjoy them! I also managed to write up a few short pieces for future newsletters - one on Drum Castle, and a couple on older visits to places in England and around.

Let's about it for now; guess I should be concentrating on studying for the next week or so really!

Bedtime?

Phew!

I've been working really quite hard this evening...first off, I corrected a few mistakes that I'd noticed I'd made on Issue 18 of PALS. The issue got released a week before I got married, so I think it's kind of fair I made a couple of little errors! I've now added page 8 (which you couldn't see before - not a huge deal as it was only the standard back page, but looked a bit odd without it) and changed the Issue number on the front page to 18 - before it said 16. Oops!

Secondly, I continued writing up some of the Food and Drink Special, due to be released in late Oct - I was focussing on the Beer page this evening!

Thirdly, I've now changed the way past issues of PALS are accessed slightly (with a bit of Dan's help). Instead of each issue being separately linked on the home page, there is now a link to an All Past Issues page, where there is a full list of every issue and what it's about/ it's date. Links from here take you to the relevant issue. You can still access the most recent PALS newsletters from the side bar on the home page though, just for ease of access.

Fourthly, and (I think), finally, I've uploaded a few more pics to the Aberdeenshire and Scotland photo pages. This time they are from Braemar and Inverness, 2 of the places I've visited in the past couple of weeks. Talking of that, I still need to write pieces on Dundee and Inverness, and have a go at the "Adventure Special" pieces too. Something for another day I think!

It's amazing what makes you write a newsletter

I've managed spend a good 2 or 3 hours working on Issue 19 of PALS and our website, finishing the newsletter off ready to be published in a couple of week's time, and adding some photos from our trips around North East Scotland with my parents over the last weekend.

I've been "inspired" to work and generally do useful things with the newsletter because I'm fed up with the rest of the world. I attempted to ring my bank this morning and got the usual talking robot - apparently his screen knows my name/ telephone number/ address better than I do. I'm also pretty sure I was talking to somebody in India again... Considering this bank has failed to change my name a month after I went into the bank, spoke to somebody, showed them my passport AND marriage certificate AND bank cards and statements, I think that's quite cheeky. I got quite arsy with the guy on the phone, but he wasn't going to quit saying the same thing over and over again, so eventually I hung up. Ever felt like hitting the person on the end of the phone line with the phone? I'm guessing it's not just me!

Ok, rant over! After watching Bridget Jones (the first good one) and having a much needed laugh, I decided that the best policy is just to ignore all my money/ bank/ name problems, make Dan deal with them all and do fun things - hence the completion of Issue 19 of PALS.
I have also added a few pics to the blog for you! One is of the fun I had organising all our wedding photos - I think my expression in that pic says it all really. The other is of some of the photos I've added to the Aberdeenshire section of our Photos Web Page - there are also a couple of new ones in the Scotland section. My parents came to see us last weekend so we made them drive all over Aberdeenshire, Moray and Angus, going to whisky distilleries, castles and pretty gardens. And so some of the best shots from the weekend have made it to onto our website.

PS I thought I was having a bad day before? Blogger just decided to mess up my post and save all the incorrect changes for me, meaning I've had to retype most of my post. Bloody typical.

More photos!

I finally got around to looking through the photos that Dan and I took last weekend, of some areas in the Highlands including Keith, Dufftown and Banchory. I've added them to the Aberdeenshire and Scotland sections of the Photos pages on our website, so you can see them there. Now all we need is some proper sun (please?) and the photos would look really good!

Working Photos

I've managed to get the photos uploaded, although it did mean deleting an older section. They had been on there for ages though so I wasn't too bothered about removing them! The great thing about having the website split into sections is that it's really easy to just remove an obvious section without having to think too hard about what would be best to remove and what you should leave.

Anyway, have a look at the Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire sections of our Photos Webpage for new pics from last weekend. And now I really have to go as I need to go and meet Dan!