Janet & Graham Scott Christmas 2010

Volume 14

Janet & Graham Scott

December 2010

A very merry & happy Christmas to all our

friends

We have been putting off the job of writing the news from the Scotts even later this year. So here we go .with some Scott news, or dare I say lack of it , as it hasn't been a very eventful year.

Once again Chris Walker in Canada started the newsletter season with an early issue. She is spending January & February back in Europe but in sunnier climes than GB ie Portugal

As is now usual our Christmas news will be on the web at www.gwsjms.me.uk/xmas10.htm.

Work & Hobbies

Graham is kept busy with masonic and Probus work. Janet continues to sing with her choir, |The Condate Singers and is STILL secretary. The choir recently performed in Gorton Monastery, a beautiful Franciscan building set in the heart of Gorton (Manchester). A trust is managing the building and slowly bringing it back to its former glory. We performed along with Barnton Silver Band, a first for both of us.

It looks as if our involvement with the Village Hall will come to an end in the New Year. Moulton & District Community Association (MADCA) has managed the hall for the last 35 years but the lease is coming to an end at the end of April. The Church, which owns the hall, has made very stringent demands both in terms of day to day management & major capital expenditure, before it will grant a new lease. We feel unable to agree its terms. It is quite galling really as we rescued a semi derelict building in 1976. So we are not going to renew the lease.

We continue in reasonable health. Graham with his mild asthma and Janet with T2 diabetes well under control .

Last year we wrote that our our well loved dog Judy had been a little unwell with gut problems which were initially put down to scavenging something . Unfortunately things proved much more serious. After some months of increasing problems she was diagnosed with liver cancer in March and died in May. We were both deeply upset as she had been with us since the start of our retirement. Graham particularly misses his daily walks.

Perhaps in the spring we may look for another dog.

Grandsons

The grandchildren continue to thrive and grow up at an alarming rate. Ivan was five on 30^th November. He started school at the end of August. Oscar and Mickie are both 3 (and a bit) and are at pre-school and nursery respectively.

Oscar & Charlie Mikie Ivan

The big freeze

Well last year I wrote about taking the grandsons to see the Winsford Rock Salt mine ( Salt in Cheshire ) on the banks of the River Weaver. Little did I know that within weeks the attention of the whole country would be focused there as Britain descended into the big freeze from mid December. The enormous mounds of rock salt disappeared with great rapidity. Now it looks all set to be repeated with the unseasonable onset of snow over much of the country.

Katherine & Santi
Katherine continues to work as a midwife and has moved to a new hospital in Glasgow, the Queen Mum’s finally closing at the beginning of the year.

Santi has been running some Catalan conversation classes as well as translations but still holds the fort at home when Katherine is working.

In February he took Oscar to see his parents in Espluges on the outskirts of Barcelona and in October he took Ivan. He says there is no way he could manage the two of them by himself on a plane!

Debbie & Chris
Once again we looked after Chris & Deb's dog, Holly while they took a second holiday in Brittany.

Tiscali now seems to be integrated into the new company after its take over by TalkTalk. It was a worrying time for Chris but now he works for yet another ISP company. Deborah continues to work three days a week in marketing for Homebase. She recently did a world wind tour of stores in the the north of England and Scotland.

Chris & Debbie

Nativity

Holidays

No holidays this time to record.

We intended to be away in April but Judy's health problems meant she had become very poorly and we couldn’t leave her with our neighbour or in kennels. We seem to have been so busy doing????? that we haven’t managed to get away anywhere.

We have paid visits to the children and grandchildren in Glasgow and Milton Keynes on several occasions but that is all. We must try and get away for a week in the sun in the new year.

In October, we had a very pleasant long weekend in a remote house on Lake Vrnwy in deepest Wales. Our friend Margaret celebrated her 60^th there with a house party of 16 friends and relatives.

Vrnwy walkers Lake Vrnwy

All the best to you all for the Christmas season and the New Year.
All our love,
Janet & Graham