Idyllic break in the mountians

We just got back tonight from our holiday break up north and a great time was had by all. Initially we went to Lees parents cottage in the woods, set up the Mulligan family tent and spent our time cutting trees, making fires, and just enjoying the view of the hills. Lee was still working so myself holly and poppy joined in with the grandparents and had a nice time around our campfire. Lees parents house is in a wood with a small stream flowing by and you can walk out into the moorland and mountians so it is a fantastic place to camp as we have the backup of the cottage and yet have our own big tent in the woods and campfire. We left the campsite set up and will probably visit over the next few weeks, Lee and the girls may head up when I have to stay in Edinburgh for my daily radiotherapy treatments.

Once lee came up we had a few days together in the camp and then we headed off to Jim and Sarahs lodge at Loch rannoch in the highlands. I was looking forward to a wooden cabin with primitive facilities by the lakeside but the place was fantastic and as big as our flat overlooking the lake with lots of things to do in the surrounding area. As it happened some other friends, Pete and Jane, were staying nearby totally by accident so we had a great holidy. As we had three families together we were able to split up on different days to take care of those who wanted to go to the tea shop and those who wanted to climb a Munro (scottish mountian over 3000ft high for the US readers). My friend Jim climbed his first Munro and caught his first fish on the lake when "the Boys" went fishing and returned at 10pm with (my) large (3kg) trout which the whole family was able to have for a late tea. The good outcome was that all the boys managed to catch a fish over the two nights. Even little Collette the youngest of the group managed to climb a pretty impressive mountian overlooking Loch Rannoch. So a great time was had by all, my stamina has been really built up just in time for the radiotherapy and I no longer need to sleep in the afternoons.

So this week is planned for some work activity starting on sunday night through to tuesday then I go in for the "set up" session of the radiotherapy. The radiotherapy should take about 3 weeks and I should be able to catch up on some work during that period, once it is over the kids and I will set off for Donegal and I will build up my strenght for getting back to work at the end of August.

So I will let you know how the radiotherapy set up works out on tuesday and what the final timetable is for the treatments. We are all chilled out an relaxed here I hope your holidays are going just as well.

Cheers

Gerry

Thanks to Jim and Sarah