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I don't think I've ever been this organised for Christmas before in my life.

Once I finish my work on Wednesday afternoon I'll have two full days in which to grab a couple of last-minute stocking fillers for my girlfriend Laura and then relax.

It's unheard of for me as I'm normally racing around on Christmas Eve just starting out on the wish-list.

It's definitely a welcome change and one of only two benefits I've had with the "winter shutdown" that's been forced upon us. The other bonus being that I've been able to take my time getting back to fitness from my recent injury with a bounce match against Threave Rovers all that I've missed.

Once again there was no surprise that our game at Albion Rovers was called off at the weekend and we actually found out as early as Thursday.

We had a scheduled training session as a replacement but that was also cancelled on Saturday morning as the snow returned down our way.

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League reconstruction in Scotland is on the tip of everyone's tongue.

The information we are getting is that the men at the top our game favour an with a regional set-up involving the remaining SFL clubs.

First of all, I think it could be a long way off from happening but I do think that it has the potential to work.

Our chairman, Henry McClelland has already given the "radical changes" the thumbs up, so that's good enough for me to know that it could help the smaller clubs like us in terms of finance.

I'm sure there is a long way to go and there are a lot of questions to be asked. The actual set-up of the regional leagues remains unclear and that's why I remain slightly sceptical.

Annan Athletic have come a long way in just a few years and we want to continue to develop further and progress as a club both on and off the field.

It's clear that there would be savings made in terms of travel and accommodation but would the opportunity of progression be reduced by the new set-up? How would the promotion and relegation work to and from SPL 2?

Is this the chance for the pyramid system to be introduced?

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I'm sure Saturday past was the least exciting Gillette Soccer Special we've all seen for a while. was completely wiped out except for the top division in England.

There was one exception in Scotland - amazingly, went ahead.

I followed that story through the whole of Friday and again on Saturday morning and you have to take your hat off to that club for their efforts in getting the game played.

There were tractors and JCBs involved at various times and Alloa must have spent a fair bit of money on equipment.

That's all very well and good, but I bet the game still wouldn't have happened without the efforts of the numerous volunteers that showed up to help their club.

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is causing havoc up and down the country and it's no different down our way at . Although we haven't had the volumes of snow that some of you may have seen further north of the country, there was still enough to see our replay postponed last weekend.

, the club were one of the lucky ones to have officials appointed to the fixture as the Cup took priority over the . As it turned out, they weren't needed and the game is now being scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday of every week until it gets played.

On current viewing it doesn't appear that the weather forecast will allow that to happen any time soon.

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