End of the month and time for the Monthly photo blogging challenge with this month's theme being photographer's choice. What to choose - my first thought was take photos of my favourite things, Ken, Cookie, Muffin, Bramble, and cake, but as they all feature in a lot of my blogs anyway I thought that might … Continue reading Photographers choice – monthly blogging challenge

I'm slightly crazy as I've joined another blogging challenge, but I couldn't resist this one as I love doing lists of favourite things. This challenge is organised by the lovely Tamara Gerber at Confessions of a part-time working mom (click on the blog title to go to her site and see what others have come up with)So … Continue reading Top Ten Thursdays – 80’s songs

Our short break on the West Coast of Scotland continues. Because Thursday was such a glorious day we headed to Tayvallich for lunch as it's a really pretty spot. We had a fabulous lunch at the Tayvallich Coffee Shop which is behind the little local shop - scrummy vegetarian haggis and great view looking out … Continue reading Sunshine and ancient history on Scotland’s West Coast

More of our short break in Argyll - the reason we had chosen this area is that this is where my beloved grew up and we hadn't visited the area for many years. We woke up on the Thursday morning to glorious sunshine and blue skies which was wonderful for a day of exploring and … Continue reading Argyll memories in the sun

I've just had a lovely week off so there's several blogs to come of our adventures on the west coast of Scotland. This post is just going to cover our journey to our destination of Ardrishaig which is where we stayed. We traveled down the A82 to go through Glencoe, which is one of the … Continue reading The incredible majesty of Glencoe

Early in Spring we stopped at Brodie Castle for a wander as it's quite close to Nairn where we live. It's a 16th century castle set in a 71 hectare estate. As it was quite late in the day we decided not to go through the castle, leaving that for another day and instead had … Continue reading Brodie Castle in spring

The first day of our week off - hooray. We decided to stay quite local for our exploring today and our first stop was at Auldearn Antiques which is an aladdins cave of stuff! So many things that you could furnish a whole house and find clothes to wear if you were into a retro … Continue reading Antiques, wildflowers, and unicorns

On Sunday we headed out for a magical mystery tour around the highlands, trying to find the sun as it was a bit miserable where we were. Our first stop was in Newtonmore which is 57 miles away in the Cairngorms National Park. We went into The Wild Flour Cafe which was designed with me … Continue reading Colourful Scottish Wildcats and other odd things

In the early 90's I met a girl, Elaine, from the UK who told me the town she lived in was the centre of the universe and that town was Macclesfield. That was 24 years ago and I've been to Macclesfield three times over the years and it's very unassuming for such an important place … Continue reading Macclesfield – the centre of the universe?