Shetland and Orkney Grand tour Day -1

In order to go to Shetland and Orkney, we are taking the ferry from Aberdeen. I have to make my way from Leeds. Our breaking is at Edinburgh, which still breaches my one tank rule.
I took A68 most of my way. I made a stop at Aydon Castle. It is a fairly in tact 'castle' with a lot of history in the 'borders'. Their apple trees were fruiting nicely, they also tasted nice :-)
 

Then I took A7 on the final approach towards Edinburgh. Compare with A68, A7 has loads of bends, it would be nice if I hasn't already been on the bike for 3 hours with loads of luggage!

Consider it was a Saturday, the amount of traffic jam and road works in Edinburgh was very irritating!  By the time I got in, I had no energy to see the National museum!

Morning Chills

The weather is still dry, so I took the bike to work. It was cold!!

Making Babies Chilli

My chilli plant is flowering nicely, and after reading some instructions, I brave myself in cotton budding the flowers. I wonder if it is effective.

Finance is

I am clicking around on the finance e-learning, the company is keen is making everyone finance-aware. It is very boring, very counter-intuitive, hence Finance is not easy!

Joy of Plain Crackers

I got some of these on reduced, and they sat in my drawer for another two months. Finally I broke into them, they are very good. I do like my boring food!

Fragile Samsung

It is not even 4 months after I replaced the screen, and I managed to cracked it.  In additional to all the other problems, I am happy to use this S4 as my last Samsung!

Ski Snozone MK

After my recent visit in Castleford Xcape, I wanted to check out the other slopes taking advantage of the summer discount with Snozone in MK.  Shortly after I started skiing in MK, I started to think Castleford was much better!

The pistes are very uneven for a start.  Then I realised the bigger the slope, the longer you spend on the lift!  Even though there are two lifts operating in MK, but because of the larger proportion of beginners in MK, the lifts keep stopping, which doesn't help!  Then I started using the jumps, and only after two hours I was using them, I was advised I can only use the jumps if I wear a helmet, meanwhile to other people were using the jumps wearing woolie hat!  Lastly, the locker ate my money!

I will just stick with Castleford!