The last few months have been incredibly busy, as we prepared the new holiday programme for 2009.  We now offer more Scottish holiday ideas than ever, and more will be introduced over the next few weeks too. Then there was the design and development of the new design website, full of new features and with a radical new look. Thanks to Ben Ellis at hungrybrowser. ( Hope you like it!) Furthermore we decided it was time to make some major changes to our printed material, so a new brochure and accompanying brand piece was designed with the help of DR Creative in Edinburgh – thanks to Red & Paul.

I am delighted to say that it does seem to be paying off, with bookings in January off to a great start, despite the economic doom & gloom around.

Just when we were starting all this work my mother suffered a severe stroke, which she fought for just over a week, but which was in the end too much for her. She was “in her ninetieth year” as she used to say and had a great life.

You may be interested to read her obituary here.

She always took a great interest in the business and I am so sorry I won’t be able to show her our new brochure and website. My dad died nearly 5 years ago, just after we started McKinlay Kidd, but he too was really supportive in those first few months.

I was just thinking the other day, when I would have loved to phone home to tell Mum about our news and realised that I couldn’t: without them I would not be running a Scottish travel company. It was our annual family holidays to Scotland from the late 60s onwards which showed me this great country for the first time.

Just one thing I should have said thank you for.

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