I started this blog in 2012 and have often thought that it would be nice to share some of our previous adventures, so Friday is now for flashbacks to past days of fun - enjoy.In March 2005 we spent three fabulous nights in Barcelona. Ken left the booking up to me and I booked a … Continue reading Flashback Friday – Barcelona 2005

This week's top ten Thursday is random pictures of our life - be prepared for very random. I thought I'd give you snapshots of my day. Thanks as always to Tamara at Part-time Working Hockey Mom for hosting this challenge.1. Bramble checking out what I'm doing in the kitchen - as you can see I've got my … Continue reading Top Ten Thursdays: Random Pictures

Cee's fun foto challenge (CFFC) is a weekly themed challenge with a photo or photos from our archives or totally new pics - this week's theme was hot and/or cold. Rather than go for the weather I decided to go with hot drinks which usually means a latte for me, and yes I'm very sad … Continue reading Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Hot or Cold?

We've been having a bit of a heatwave here in the north of Scotland, with it getting up to 29 degrees on Friday - shockingly Ken even put his shorts on for the first time since we've moved to Scotland. Today it's back to normal being mid teens but still very sunny and lovely so … Continue reading Vintage Vehicles at the Highland Folk Museum

This week's top ten is words or phrases we know in another language, or several languages. Now I could cheat and count Australian as a separate language to English as there are many words that are very different, but that would be way too easy. Instead I've chosen the top ten of words I used … Continue reading Top Ten Thursdays: Vocabulary

Yes, another challenge, but part of blogging is connecting with other bloggers and I love how differently people interpret themes given by the challenge setter. Cee's fun foto challenge (CFFC) is a weekly themed challenge with a photo or photos from our archives or totally new pics.This weeks theme was Gardens and I have loads … Continue reading Cee’s fun foto challenge: Gardens (of the quirky variety)

This week our landlords gardener told Ken about a lovely coffee shop on the road to Grantown that we'd never visited, so today we remedied that very quickly. The Coffee Lounge at Dava School House serves Cairngorm Leaf and Bean coffee and very scrummy cakes. It's decorated in a really nice style with lots of … Continue reading Cakes, a castle, and a monkey in a fez

This week with our top ten we're looking at our bucket lists - I have so many things that it's really hard to choose what to share, so decided to give you five that I've ticked off the list and five that are still to be done. Thanks as always to Tamara, Part-time Working Hockey Mom, … Continue reading Top Ten Thursdays – Bucket List

In our previous post, a trip on the whiskey line, the train had a brief stop at Drummuir which we thought looked really interesting so after our train trip we went and found the station again.At the station there are two wonderful carved wooden statues, one of an old man and one of a story telling … Continue reading Ancient woodland, ancient graves, and a pair of odd socks

What do you do when you haven't' got anything planned for the weekend and are feeling a bit unmotivated? Well, you drive to Dufftown (41 miles away) and take a trip on the heritage railway that runs between Dufftown and Keith. The railway was opened in 1862 and was closed in 1991 but then a … Continue reading A trip on the Whiskey line