It's taken me a while to manage this - but Sandy was a bit of a hero at his match at Penicuik on Sunday, saving two penalties at the end of a tense game. Click on the first picture, then near the top right, click on "next" to scroll through the set. the ones at the end are where Sandy gets mobbed by his team-mates!
Posted by Mark Kinghorn on Sunday, 6 December 2015
Summer 2015 saw me make an effort to produce the most compact, yet best video of all our trips to Finland over the years. This is only the length of one song, less than 4 minutes long, but it features more clips than many of the other years' videos put together!
I like it.
I hope you do too!
We had an absolutely brilliant time recently in Finnish Lapland, when we spent a week skiing in the biggest resort in Finland, Levi. Great weather, fantastic skiing and a lovely house to stay in all meant we came home thoroughly refreshed and keen to return to the far north of Finland!
For more details, have a look at the blog I updated daily while we were in Levi.
With Sandy and Olivia growing up fast, we returned in 2014 to our favourite cottage in Finland, where we spent our 3rd year in a row relaxing. The weather was outstanding- apart from a couple of showers which were brought on by extreme heat and thunderstorms, we saw absolutely no rain whatsoever in our 16 day stay! The lake, Palvajarvi was exquisite to swim in and we spend many hours each day enjoying this fabulous place.
In late 2013, after looking for a greyhound for several weeks, Indie, a retired dog who had raced at Sunderland greyhound stadium, came to live with us. She was at the time just short of her 3rd birthday, and although it was new experience for her to live in a house for the first time in her life, she settled very quickly, and has become a lovely family pet. The video below was made in March 2014, after Indie had been with us for 4 months.
In 2013, we returned to the cottage we had discovered in 2012, close to Vaajakoski in central Finland. We arrived to find a much extended and improved cottage, and it was a pleasure to relax with Anna's parents, sister Olga and her son Arnold, as well as my brother Keith, who travelled with us for the first time, and had great fun swimming in the beautiful Lake Palvajarvi.
In late 2012, we decided to spend our 2013 February holiday week in the French Alps, and my great friend Pascal invited us to stay with him close to the small French resort of St Pierre de Chartreuse. This was a very exciting week for us- the first time for Anna, Sandy and Olivia to ski on snow, and my first trip abroad to ski since I was 12 years old! We had been practising at Hillend Ski Centre in Edinburgh for over a year, so we were certainly ready for the real thing. It turned out to be a really amazing week- a great host in Pascal, a lovely wee resort with cheap (by skiing standards) prices and a huge amount of snow all combined to make it a memorable time.
In 2012, we spent our longest time so far in Finland, a 24 day holiday that started in Helsinki for a couple of nights, then moved on to the eastern town of Parikkala where we spent a week with Anna's parents and sister Olga, along with her son Arnold. We then moved west to central Finland where we discovered a fantastic cottage (to become our all-time favourite) close to Vaajakoski and Jyvaskyla, followed by a week in a very small cottage close to Ruovesi, before finishing off with a night in the lovely city of Tampere.
We are just back from another fantastic trip to Finland. It was memorable for all the same reasons that it has been memorable in the past- wonderful warm lakes to swim in, absolute peace and quiet to relax in, good friends and family to spend time with- this country is AWESOME!
Have a look at the video, which shows the journey to Finland, and what we did while we were there.
It was a stunning morning today, so we headed off to have a walk around the headland at St Abb's, close to Eyemouth.
I decided to film a little, and have been playing around with my new Macbook, and particularly with iMovie, trying to see what it can do. It's great fun, but if you watch this short video, please appreciate that it's a first effort... I am only learning what iMovie can do at the moment! Once I get to grips with it, I am going to be able to have a lot of fun, I am sure, making some cool videos!!
St Abb's..a visit on 1st May from Michael Purves on Vimeo.
A run down of our wonderful holiday in Finland, 2010.
We have had the most amazing holiday in Finland this year. You can read all about it
and see all the photos and videos here.
Innerwick is a beautiful village, full of interesting houses and lovely gardens. We were there this evening, to see our French pals from Florentin, who are staying in the Outdoor Education Centre there. There are 24 pupils (our Schoolovision partners) and their teachers.
Olivia poses in the dining room at the Centre.
Another close to the Centre.
Near to the Outdoor Centre
This morning, we had a lovely walk in the sunshine around Preston Mill, at East Linton.
It has been a while, I know, but I promised Anna this morning that I'd add some new photos to the blog today! I know that Anna's parents in St Petersburg will look at the blog tomorrow, with Olga, so here we go, with a few of the most recent pictures of Sandy and Olivia!
A week or so ago, we went for a lovely walk in some woods, around 3 miles from Dunbar.
Olivia loves her ballet lessons, and she has been practising really hard for a show that she'll take part in tomorrow, Saturday 27th March!
You have to keep your eye on Hamish. Each morning, at breakfast, he waits patiently until Olivia finishes her cereal, then he decides to have a look for himself to see if she has actually eaten everything. If she hasn't, then he's straight up there to finish it off!
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